Pastor With No Answers
341 - My Gay Church Days: Memoir of a Closeted Evangelical Pastor Who Eventually had Enough.
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 1:19:02
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[At top of episode, Ellen, Ryan and Joey discuss Ryan's ignoring of God, why it's a bit morbid when a Christian asks "was he/she a believer" after some one dies, and how the church is trying to convince Ellen's friend to stay with her cheating husband because he "reads the word" and "it was only a blowjob."]For our main talk, biographical author, George Azar, lived it and wrote a book for us to peer into his journey from leading vocational ministry as a pastor (and as a gay man) to “eventually having enough" and leaving Christianity all together. He shares his story here. Joey and George discuss the senselessness of appealing to “traditional theology” as a standard not to evolve past for the reason of "God ever changes." This ideology seems to assume that God hasn’t anything further to say about the teachings in the bible and no more revelatory direction for humanity. Pretty boring God, if you ask me. Joey shares how hard it was to maintain his