Episode 3 - Spirited Appalachia with the Rev. Kimberly Gibson-Pierce
Release Date: 04/30/2019
Episode 16 — A Crash Course in Miracles with Colin Bedell and mizChartreuse
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It’s a great pleasure to welcome not one but two of the most fabulous astrologers I know to the show this week, the inimitable Colin Bedell and mizChartreuse. We became acquainted through the astrology conference world and I reached out to have a conversation with them regarding A Course in Miracles, the seminal 1976 book which has been influential in both of their lives and for thousands (if not millions) of other individuals. ACIM has been an influential source text for both of them, and they've got some utterly fantastic insights to share with us. My idea for this episode emerged out of...
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Episode 15 - Badventist with Bryan Nashed
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This week it's a pleasure to welcome my friend Bryan Nashed to the show. Bryan is a spooky boi, tarotist, and podcaster, coming to us from the wild and wooly world of Seventh Day Adventism. Bryan co-hosts the Badventist podcast with Anthony Rodriguez, which, aside from winning this week's portmanteau award, serves as a space for those who grew up Adventist to work on jailbreaking their own sacred stories. The conversation covers: Seventh Day Adventism Staying within a tradition and critiquing it from the inside Ancestry, the numinous, and a beautiful (and completely sober) digression into the...
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Episode 14: Neurodiversity, Pneumadiversity, and Magical Life with Arthur Lipp-Bonewits
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Today's chat features a lovely conversation with Arthur Lipp-Bonewits. Arthur is an all-purpose diviner, astrologer, occultist, and ecumenical medium based in New York City where he is studying psychology, gender, and sexuality. Today we're sitting down to talk growing up neopagan and the confluence of religious, spiritual, and magical practice at the margins. Mile markers for our conversation: Growing up neopagan and present challenges with even defining what "neopagan" is Developing sensibility to the more-than-material magic, how do it do Neurodiversity and pneumadiversity Gender identity...
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Episode 13 - Social [Work] Gospel with Rev. Dr. Sarah Kye Price
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Today on the show it’s my privilege to welcome my friend and clergy colleague, the Rev. Dr. Sarah Kye Price. Mother Sarah and I met during the trial-by-fire known as Clinical Pastoral Education back in 2015, and she was recently ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. In addition to living out her priestly vocation as the priest affiliate at Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Sarah is the associate dean for faculty development at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work. This conversation was long in the works and I'm excited to...
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Episode 12 — Marybois with Andrew Lamont
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A little late on the release due to ECLIPSE MANIA, but here we are. It's a privilege to welcome my good friend Andrew Lamont to the show. Andrew is a fiber artist, magician, and astrologer based out of Rhode Island, and today we're sitting down to talk about the process of jailbreaking Catholicism, embodiment and desire, and the importance of ritual work in developing connection to community across the boundaries of space and time. Glad to have a fellow Maryboi on the show. Growing up Deadhead/Catholic, now spooky Ritual as guide into embodiment MARY Embodiment and desire as...
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Episode 11 — Dismantling Fear with Jo Gleason
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Today on the show it’s my privilege to welcome my good friend Jo Gleason! Jo is an astrologer, former ballet dancer, and writer based out of Oklahoma City. She currently serves as the vice president of the Association for Young Astrologers. This free-form conversation tracks Jo's story through her GOOD CHRISTIAN KID upbringing. We talk about disarming the fear of deconstructing one's beliefs and presuppositions about the world in order to find even deeper foundations in the mystical. Our thread also turns towards a re-emergence of a jailbroken Christianity through the influence of ancestor...
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Episode 10 - Take this Bread with Flan Park
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Today on the show, I’m sitting down with my friend Flan Park. Flan and I have been in each others orbits for several years now, having connected with one another via Gay Christian Twitter. Flan is a children’s librarian living and working in Philadelphia. Their work focuses on bringing whole person, whole family literacy and learning support work to underserved and underrepresented populations throughout the city, as well as researching and generating educational materials around gender affirming child development frameworks. While not in the library, they work alongside the young adult...
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Episode 9 — Lines in the Sand & Lines in the Soul with Sam Block
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Today on the show I’ve got the privilege of welcoming my friend Sam Block, with whom I became acquainted through Spooky Twitter, only to find out that he lives in my hometown, the forested wilds of Northern Virginia. Sam wears many hats; in addition to being a software developer, talented geomancer, and all-purpose magician, Sam is a prolific writer and has a robust online presence through his website, The Digital Ambler. He’s also a fully initiated priest in the Afro-Cuban spiritual tradition known as La Regla de Ocha Lucumí (also known as Santería). Today we’re talking spiritual...
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Episode 8 — Creating through Prediction with Drew Levanti
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This week, I sat down with Drew Levanti, a new friend I connected with at the Northwest Astrology Conference in Seattle. Drew is a student of anthropology and of Hellenistic astrology (with some forays into archetypical models of symbolism). Our conversation wends its way through his experience growing up around a heavy-duty New Age community, his work as a student of anthropology, and the role of ethics in shaping our creative engagement with cycles of time measured astrologically. This conversation was a delight! Connect with Drew @FortunateFire on Twitter and @anthrostrologist on Instagram....
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Episode 7 - The Imaginal Realm with West Ardere
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We're on a weird release schedule these days due to circumstances beyond my control, but I'm glad to be back! This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome to the show my friend West Ardere! West is an astrologer and former evangelical based out of Seattle, Washington. Our lovely conversation today circles the drain on ritualized prayer, folk catholica, ancestor veneration, Tolkien, and the role of the imaginal in spiritual practice and the development of a constellation of mythic narratives—aka, a jailbroken engagement with the sacred. West's work can be found at , and you can connect...
info_outlineThis week features a wonderful conversation with my friend and clergy colleague, the Rev. Kimberly Gibson-Pierce, about the spiritual uniqueness of Appalachia and the revolutionary undercurrent behind such stereotyped phenomena as snake-handling and poison-drinking in certain pockets of Pentecostalism. Rev. Kim is a commissioned minister in the Disciples of Christ denomination and a scholar of Appalachian history. This discussion broke apart quite a few of my misunderstandings about the region and invites all of us into an experience of Appalachia that is deeply rooted in communal engagement with nature, family, and the spirit of the place.
Bonus episode content: Kim and I do a deep dive into the myth and magic of Appalachian folklore, and our friends the Mothman and the Hopkinsville Goblin make appearances! Available for Patreon patrons on the $10 tier.
Books referenced in the episode:
Harry Caudill, Night Comes to the Cumberlands
Ronald D Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930
Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, Donald Askin, eds., Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case
Scott Schwartz, Faith, Serpents, and Fire
Elliott Wigginton, ed., Foxfire