Yass, Jesus!

Did you know that June 30th is officially Queer Youth of Faith Day?! Our friends at Beloved Arise are sponsoring this special episode to kick off Pride Month, featuring top runners of their essay contest asking the questions: How has your faith shaped you as a person and helped you in hard times? How have others challenged your faith and/or identity, and how did you persevere?  Of all the essays submitted, Beloved Arise will select five finalists to get $10,000 in academic scholarships!

We go back to Genesis to ask the question, “What does God think about Nudity?”  In a book full of snakes and apples (*wink wink*), we’ve decided that God wants your noodz!

Bring your leather, your flogs, and your faith!  Yass, Jesus is live at LA Leather Pride talking about how faith and fetish can be aligned, and the true meaning of RELEASE.  We’re joined by special guests Mr. Sanctuary 2019  Francesco Perales, THE therapist of the LA leather community Tony Gulla, Brandon Bullet - Mr. Bullet Leather 2000, and everyone’s favorite pup - Pug!

Cliches can be cringe, but sometimes they ring too true to ignore.  You know the one about those who point fingers have three fingers pointing at themselves?  Watch out!  Jesus is calling out all the hypocrites.

We’ve worked to make Yass, Jesus! a virtual, queer sacred space.  What are some other sacred spaces that have a sense of God?  For many of us in the LGBTQIA+ community, a sense of God can be found in queer safe spaces, and we can create sacred spaces anywhere we go through an example of love and acceptance.  Yass, Jesus!

We speak with Dr. Obery Hendricks, a Biblical scholar at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. His new book Christians Against Christianity discusses the moral roots of the Bible to illustrate the hypocrisy of evangelical right-wing rhetoric, including a chapter on the religious Right’s condemnation of homosexuality and how it runs antithetical to the foundational teachings of Christ.

A former Wall Street investment executive and college president, Dr. Hendricks is currently a Visiting Scholar in Religion and African Studies at Columbia University and Emeritus Professor of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary. An Ordained Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hendricks holds the Master of Divinity with academic honors from Princeton Theological Seminary, and both the M.A. and Ph.D. in Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University.