The Toxicity of Purity Culture, with Milo Winslow

This midweek bonus episode is a crossover with The Sacred Collective podcast. Our own Brien Aadland--pastor of the group that meets at Bryant-Lake Bowl on Sunday mornings in Minneapolis: known first as Revolution Church; then Revolution Church Minneapolis; now The Doubters/Believers Alliance--interviews Milo Winslow for an episode of The Sacred Collective. Milo and Brien discuss similarities and differences in their experiences raised in Western Christianity: they share a background as children in Pentecostal churches. Though Milo was also exposed to Catholicism, both were made uneasy by Purity Culture's assertive, self-assured lack of regard for logic or critique.

Milo grants Brien's request to help educate about what it's like realizing an identity as a gender-queer person, and elaborates on that experience in both religious and non-religious settings that are ignorant to this very personal and very specific personality trait.

After editing this episode, Caleb told Brien how much he enjoyed just hearing the conversation, and how proud he was to be a part of Sacred Collective and Revolution both. He also told Jay about this episode, and how well it would fit in with the rest of Revolution's content, and asked Jay if they could use it as a bonus episode this week!

(Jay said yes, so here it is!!)

We should have at least a few more Meet Your Congregation episodes on some coming Wednesdays very soon, but have had to slow down a bit with the production schedule, as they sort through some heavy personal issues (which will definitely bleed through in Revolution's content sooner than later, as all things do when your work is this personal and transparently honest).

Be sure to catch Milo on social media: @thatgaymilo; Brien Aadland can be found: @roguetheologian; the podcast this interview was recorded for was started by a small group including Brien and Caleb: @sacredmn; Caleb is facing a full plate-and-a-half right now, but managing to still produce some content: @revolutioncaleb @chromatoneproductions; Jay has also been involved in The Sacred Collective on more than one occasion: @jaybakker; and this is Revolution: @revolutionchurch94.

The Doubters/Believers Alliance is the new name for the group that is meeting in-person in Minneapolis, MN at Bryant-Lake Bowl on Sunday mornings. It is now led by Brien, and is the newest iteration of the group in Minnesota that initially met as Revolution Church, under Jay Bakker. Caleb moved to Minnesota and eventually took over production of Revolution (which is now located in Seattle, WA) working for Jay, helping transform The Sacred Collective from a live small group into a recorded podcast and online community. Jay and Caleb are now in Seattle, preparing to launch Revolution in a new form--part live gatherings; part online streaming/recorded content--integrating bits and parts they've developed and refined over the years. Jay Bakker helped found Revolution as a Church in 1994. It was then, and is still now, a community of Grace and Provocation. Enjoy, react, and interact with Revolution, The Sacred Collective, and The Doubters/Believers Alliance online:

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Recorded in St Paul, Minneapolis, on July 22, 2021, for The Sacred Collective podcast.

Co-produced by Brien Aadland and Caleb Rowe.

Original music by Caleb Rowe.

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