Called to be Bad
What if the scandalous is spiritual, deviant is divine, and bad is beautiful? Welcome to Called to be Bad, a podcast where guests reveal a "bad" topic they are passionate about.
Episodes
"And so on the wedding night, I couldn't do it...on paper we were married a year and a half. I remained a virgin the entire time."
Bio:
Bio: Mindy's journey began with the weight of purity culture on her shoulders. From a literal divorced virgin (in the classical sense), she's embarked on a path of self-discovery and empowerment. Her mission is to help others shed the chains of shame, guilt, a...
“I would like to see Christians and Jews having a conversation about how we can stop hurting one another…”
Today’s topic is on Anti-Semitic (Anti-Jewish) sentiment or theology in Christianity. We discuss how defining antisemitism is difficult, how understanding Jesus’s Jewish context is imperative to understanding Jesus, we touch on Jesus’ relationships with women and how the “feminist Jesus” came about, and...
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In today’s Called to be Bad Podcast episode I talk with Shana Chivon Green who is a Queer/Lesbian pastor, writer, educator, doula, and a voracious reader. And our topic, as you already know, is on Praise Kinks.
Resources:
Shana’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shanachivon/
Sex Educators (mentioned this episode):
Hannah Witton: https://www.hannahwitton.com/
Emily Nagoski: https://www.emilynagoski.com/
Dan Savage: ht...
Welcome baddies to Called to be Bad. In this episode I talk with professor, anti-racist, anti-oppression and peace educator Regina Shands Stoltzfus who co-authored the book Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality with Tobin Miller Shearer. Our primary topic is critical race theory, but we cover other elements of anti-racism and anti white-supremacy work within the world of education and church-life. ...
"To me the value is in making sure people know that they are loved and they are created exactly as they are meant to be."
On this week’s episode of Called to be Bad, I talk with the Theology Queen, Marge Erin Johnson who is a minister, entrepreneur and drag queen. You can read her full bio and see all of her socials in the podcast/youtube description.
Marge unravels what is Drag, what is...
"You know sometimes people feel suicidal and they don't want to die, they just want to stop hurting..."
In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with Reverend Michiko Bown-Kai who is a minister in the United Church of Canada. We first talk about why language around suicide matters. Then Michiko shares some of their experience with suicide ideation (or thoughts of suicide) as a child and how t...
In this episode of Called to Be Bad I talk with Sarah Werner. Sarah is an editor, writer and pastor living in Columbus, Ohio. You can find Sarah’s full bio in the description. Sarah is the author of the book, Rooted Faith: Practices of Living Well on a Fragile Planet. In this episode we discuss Sarah’s book, in particular the idea of Animism and how it relates to the Christian faith. We talk about how all of creation ...
“We don’t have the tools necessary to talk about God…”
Today’s episode is co-hosted with Dr. Malinda E. Berry who you may recognize from an episode of Called to be Bad named Toxic Secrets.
Dr. Malinda and I had the privilege of hearing Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney speak on her prolific work in the world of Bible translation using gender expansive language.
Rev. Dr Wil Gafney is the author of A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole ...
"While I was processing my gender, my biggest fear was that I would come out as trans and then be like, 'oh wait, actually no...'"
In this episode of Called to be Bad Podcast I talk with Jenna Reyanne Martin (she, her) a trans woman who is active in her Mennonite Church (the same church where I am pastor). We get to hear her story of understanding her gender and coming out as trans. We di...
"Sadly some of my colleagues thought I was evil, the administration thought I was evil, a small percentage of my students thought I was evil...."
In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with Scott Okamoto who is a writer, musician, and podcaster. Scott writes about his experiences as a Japanese American who leaves religion while teaching English at a conservative evangelical university in his bo...
"White people act as if racism doesn't hurt them, but it does."
In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with Darryl Heller and Ben Bouwman about reparations. Darryl is professor of women and gender studies at Indiana University South Bend and is the director of the South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center. Ben pastors at Walnut Hill Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana.
Darryl and B...
"So my sexuality was like, 'here's how you're supposed to be: you're supposed to be heterosexual, you're supposed to be submissive, you're supposed to be excited any time he is excited. You're not really allowed to say no, or if you say no...say yes next time.'"
In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with Jo Lloyd Johnson, a woman who grew up in a fundame...
"And the fact that 80 or 85% of the mineral needed to power the green economy, needed to build our electric cars, our solar panels, etc., are located on or near Indigenous lands..."
In this episode of CTBB I talk with Sarah Augustine and Sheri Hostetler about what it would look like to participate in "holistic decolonization" work. Can we re-imagine how we relate to one another and creati...
“I could spend hours and days looking for a particular book, and not infrequently I discover I have more than one copy, I’ve discovered not only doubles, but triples, and in the worst case four copies of the same book on my shelf.”
In this episode of CTBB I talk with professor, polyglot, and book/word-lover, Paul Keim. We hear Paul’s opinions on the name of the podcast, stories of how he fell in love with language and ...
In this episode I talk with chaplain and author Joon Park about his journey into chaplaincy, how he maintains a non-anxious and non-judgmental presence when faced with all types of people and all types of suffering, and how he carries the stories of his patients with him as a way to honor them.
Resources:
J.S. Park's Blog: https://jsparkblog.com/
An article by CNN on his work: https:/...
In this episode of Called to be Bad, scholar Jessie Knippel takes us through the history of colonial witch trials, why certain people groups were targeted as “witches", and the role Christianity played in these hunts. Then we move to the modern day and how cycles of religious, political, and economic control continue to police women and other marginalized peoples.
*Also I apologize for the mis-matched ...
"I feel like black women have been, and always will be, the closest approximation of Jesus Christ's salvific work, in our lives."
Shantell Hinton Hill is an engineer, pastor, and poet that centers her justice work around Black Feminism(s) and Womanism. She tells stories of finding her voice and the way black women in her life have uplifted, empowered, and resurrected her. Now it is her goal to...
“In a sense, partisan politics, uncompromising politics are seen as, ‘Well that’s the real problem,’ and I think that moderate politics often does take a side, I just don’t think it has the courage to say it.”
In this episode of Called to be Bad–Jonny Rashid, pastor, and author of the book, “Jesus Takes A Side: Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel,” shares his experience of living as an Arab-American during po...
“Transitioning gave me back my body, which is what I expected, right, I expected to have this new relationship with my body and that will be great. What I didn’t also expect, was that transitioning gave me back my faith.”
In this episode of CTBB I talk with ordained priest, playwright/screenwriter, and theologian Shannon TL Kearns about body theology through a trans lens. Shannon is a transgender man who be...
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