Season 4 Episode 9: Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

GUESTOn this episode, we welcome Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons -  a fellow with the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at American Progress. His work focuses on a wide range of issues related to the role of religion in American public life, including promoting a progressive vision of religious liberty that champions LGBTQ rights and amplifying how faith communities empower social and economic justice.He is the author of the book - Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity.  His writing on religion and politics regularly appears in national media outlets, including CNN and The Washington Post. He’s also the founder of The Resistance Prays, a daily devotional aimed at spiritually and politically defeating Trumpism.He and his husband, both native Texans, now live in Louisville, Kentucky.We discuss: -his book JUST FAITH, - his upbringing with a missionary grandmother, and parents who were community activists and union organizers.- Being Queer in the church - Legacies of The Rev’d Dr. Martin Luther King, FDR, Walter Rauschenbusch, and even Tommy Douglas. - The surprising number of Consistently Progressive Christians in an America- using our words to join a long legacy of progressive Christians IT’S NOT A LIE Just how many strange things has Kevin eaten?