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Lavender Mafia — 87 episodes

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Episode 46. “Anti-Trans and Anti-Drag Bills,” Or: “Who Would Jesus Dehumanize?”

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Mini(Maxi)sode 24. “Catching Up,” Or: “Get In, Loser, We’re Going…Off-Script”

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Episode 45. “Reconstruction,” Or: “If You Threw The Baby Out With The Bathwater, Maybe It’s Time To Get A New Baby”

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Mini(Maxi)sode 23. After Dark: “Purity Test Part II” Or: “Sometimes Success Looks Like Failing at the Right Things”

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Mini(Maxi)sode 22. After Dark: “Purity Test Part I,” Or: “They Can’t Slut-Shame You If You Slut-Celebrate Yourself”

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Episode 44. “Prayer,” Or: “Couldn’t This (Prayer) Meeting Have Been an Email?”

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Mini(Maxi)sode 21. Q&A: “Labels Are My Second Favorite Sticky Stuff That Goes on My Chest” or “I’m Pan but I’m Still Not Into You”

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Minisode 20. Q&A: “Why Should I Care About Worship Music?”

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Episode 43. “Getting Sick,” Or: “My Antibody, My Choice”

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Mini(Maxi)sode 19. Q&A: “How to Become a Citizen of the United States of Chromatica”

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Episode 42. “Queer Prom,” Or: “Can You Believe the Genders We Wore Back Then? So Early 2000’s”

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Episode 41. “Time,” Or: “If Jesus Weren’t Queer, They’d Be Back By Now”

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Mini(Maxi)sode 18. After Dark: “Queer Friend Break-Ups”

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Episode 40. “Evangelism,” Or: “Jesus’ Pop Diva Fan Club Members Should’ve Been Called ‘Christ-Stans’”

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Minisode 17. Q&A on “Getting Re-baptized After Transitioning”

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Episode 39. “Faith,” Or: “What Do I Gotta Do To Sit On It?”

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Minisode 16. Q&A on “Who Should I Come Out to First?”

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Episode 38. “Cults,” Or: “Kool-Aid? I Think I’ll Stick to Vodka Crans, Thanks”

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Minisode 15. Listener’s Story: “Genderqueer Butch Lesbian Child of God”

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Episode 37. After Dark: “God Is a Freak”

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Minisode 14. Q&A on “Finding A/The One,” Or: “Jesus, Take the Wheel (on My Tinder Account)”

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Episode 36. After Dark: “Kink-Shaming,” Or: “The Impossible Burger of Gay Vampirism”

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Minisode 13. Listener’s Story: “Like Looking for Hay in a Stack of Needles”

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Mini(Maxi?)sode 12. “The Biblical Case for Christian Polyamory,” Or: “Sometimes a Family Is a Bi King, a Straight Princess, and the King’s Gay Stepbrother”

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Episode 35. “Christian Polyamory,” Or: “How Many People Can Fit Into ‘One Flesh’?”

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Episode 34. After Dark: “Cheating,” Or: “Whose Bible Have You Been Sticking Your Bookmark In?”

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Minisode 11. “A Very Lavender Advent: Joy and Love”

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Minisode 10. “A Very Lavender Advent: Hope and Peace”

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Episode 33. “Trans Day of Remembrance”

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Minisode 9. “Q&A on Queer Reparations,” Or: “How to Atone for Being Kind of a Dick TBH”

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Episode 32. After Dark: “Body Hair,” Or: “Otter? I Barely Know ‘Er”

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Minisode 8. Listener’s Story: “I Wish I Could Bring You Some Lettuce”

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Episode 31. “The Afterlife,” Or: “G-G-G-Ghosts?!”

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Minisode 7. “Q&A on Accessibility in Christian Spaces,” Or: “What Good Is It If I Don’t Fit In The Opening?”

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Episode 30. After Dark: “Sex Work,” Or: “Do You Think People Would Pay To Watch Me Read The Church Fathers Topless?

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Minisode 6. Q&A: “If You Haven’t Been Excommunicated Yet, Keep Trying”

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Episode 29. “Hell,” Or: “It’s Like a Basement for Storing Homophobes”

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Minisode 5. “Q&A: “Why’s It Gotta Be Black & White?”

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Episode 28. After Dark: “Sex Toys,” Or: “How You Too Can Become A Sex Cyborg”

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Minisode 4: Listener’s Story: “The Good Old Southern Baptist Guilt Kool-Aid”

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Episode 27: “Death,” Or: “How To Overcome Your Fear of Death With Poppers and Overpriced Vodka Sodas”

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Episode 26. After Dark: “Gay Bars,” Or: “Bathroom Is Down the Hall. If You Hit the Sex Dungeon You’ve Gone Too Far”

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Minisode 3: “Listener’s Story: Christian, But Not the Kind That Opposes Everything Jesus Stands For”

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Episode 25: “Queering the Crucifixion,” Or: “Jesus Was A Boss Bitch”

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Lav Mafia Minisode 2: “Listener’s Story: Ex-Almost-Monk Turned Witchy Spiritual Trans Poet”

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Episode 24. After Dark: “Queer Dating vs. Straight Dating,” Or: “Treat Yourself To A Little Sub Bottom Bi Boy”

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Episode 23. “Pride,” Or: “Mother Wants You To Wear Your Rubbers”

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Episode 22. After Dark: “The Apps,” Or: “If God Were On Grindr, Would They Always Be 0 Feet Away?

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Episode 21. “The Virgin Mary,” Or: “Jesus’s Mom Was A Palestinian Freedom Fighter”

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LavMafia Minisode 1: “Listener Story and a Q&A,” Or: “Did You Bring Enough Liberation For The Whole Class?”

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LavMafia Memorial Day Announcement

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Episode 20. After Dark: “Group Sex, Part II,” or: “Jess & Jack Have A Three-Way”

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Episode 19. “Queering the Incarnation,” Or: “Should You Give A Tithe From Your OnlyFans Money?”

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Episode 18. After Dark: “Voyeurism & Exhibitionism” Or: “Sometimes I Think God Wishes They Didn’t Have To Watch”

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Episode 17. “Queering Jesus” Or: “God Hates Figs”

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Episode 16. After Dark: “Group Sex,” Or: “A Bold, New Take on Small Groups”

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Episode 15. Creation or “Why Evolution Is Really Gay”

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Announcement: New Lavender Mafia Format! Or: “We’re the Podcast Your Pastor Warned You About”

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After Dark Ep 14. Friends With Benefits or “Maybe the Real Fornication Was the Friends We Made Along the Way”

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Episode 14. Power or “Megachurches vs. the ‘Practical Magic’ House”

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After Dark 13. Flirting & Seduction or “What We Learned from Olive Garden, Silence of the Lambs, and Sexting Our Friends”

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Episode 13. Names and Pronouns for God or “Who’s Your Daddy? Is it God?”

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After Dark Ep. 12 BDSM, Part II or “How to Become More Like Jesus Through Pain Play”

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Episode 12. Statements of Faith & Creeds or: “I Got Tested for Orthodoxy, and the Results Came Back Negative”

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After Dark Ep 11. Role Play or “I Want Dylan McDermott To Murder Me”

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Episode 11. Shame or “What Do Christianity, Puberty, and Olive Garden Have In Common?”

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After Dark Ep 10. Foreplay or “How Not To Have Sex Like A Porn Star”

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Episode 10. Interfaith Relationships or “Sometimes A Family Is A Christian, A Heathen, And Their Cats”

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After Dark Ep 9. Porn or "I Like Mine Ethically-Sourced...But Not Cage-Free"

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Episode 9. Queer Confidence or “Love Yourself As You Love Your Neighbor”

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After Dark Ep 8. Pre-Marital Sex or “Why God’s OK with Your Slut Phase”

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Episode 8. Gender Expression or “How to Embrace Your Inner Sissy/Butch”

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After Dark Ep 7. Masturbation Or: “If You Can’t Love Yourself…”

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Episode 7. "The Wrong Kind of Gay"

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After Dark Ep6. Purity Culture Or “How Billy Graham Made Us Gayer”

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Episode 6. “Imagining a Better, Queerer World”

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After Dark Ep 5. “I Need Sexual Heal(th)ing”

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Episode 5. Desire or "What You Really, Really Want"

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After Dark Ep4. Sex and Disability

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Episode 4. Marriage

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After Dark Ep3. Tops and Bottoms

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Episode 3. Gender

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After Dark Ep2. BDSM

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Episode 2. Family

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After Dark Ep1. Best & Worst

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Episode 1. Being Queer and Christian

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Introducing Lavender Mafia

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