Podcasts by Lord Have Mercy

Rhea is Leaning into the Woo-Woo from 2020-10-16T14:56:16

Rhea is an entrepreneur, certified herbalist, health coach, and green witch. After being a devout evangelical for over a decade (and escaping a cult,) she decided to get to know Spirit for herself ...

Jo Luehmann from 2020-10-13T15:58:47

Crystal talks to Jo Luehmann about her upcoming Pop-Ed series, Decolonizing Christianity.

Who is God by Suzanne Dewitt Hall (Day 7) from 2020-02-16T10:00

Who is God?

If you want to examine the scriptural view of the LGBTQI+ community you must first understand the one who breathed life into the collection of books that make...

Who is God by Suzanne Dewitt Hall (Day 6) from 2020-02-15T10:00

Who is God?

If you want to examine the scriptural view of the LGBTQI+ community you must first understand the one who breathed life into the collection of books that make...

Who is God by Suzanne Dewitt Hall (Day 5) from 2020-02-14T10:00

Who is God?

If you want to examine the scriptural view of the LGBTQI+ community you must first understand the one who breathed life into the collection of books that make...

Who is God by Suzanne Dewitt Hall (Day 4) from 2020-02-13T10:00

Who is God?

If you want to examine the scriptural view of the LGBTQI+ community you must first understand the one who breathed life into the collection of books that make...

Who is God by Suzanne Dewitt Hall (Day 3) from 2020-02-12T10:00

Who is God?

If you want to examine the scriptural view of the LGBTQI+ community you must first understand the one who breathed life into the collection of books that make...

Who is God by Suzanne Dewitt Hall (Day 2) from 2020-02-11T10:00

Who is God?

If you want to examine the scriptural view of the LGBTQI+ community you must first understand the one who breathed life into the collection of books that make...

Who is God by Suzanne Dewitt Hall (Day 1) from 2020-02-10T20:09:18

Who is God?

If you want to examine the scriptural view of the LGBTQI+ community you must first understand the one who breathed life into the collection of books that make...

Matthias Roberts: Beyond Shame from 2019-12-29T19:30:01

 Today’s guest is Matthias Roberts. Matthias is a counselor, the host of the Queerology podcast and now he’s an author. Check out his forthcoming book Beyond Shame in the new year. Check out his b...

Trey Pearson from 2019-12-07T10:00

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Day 4 - One Body, Many Parts from 2019-12-04T10:00

Healing Others by Deborah Jian Lee “For those of us from marginalized backgrounds & identities, this 4-day devotional offers reflection on what it means to be a suffering part of the Body and how w...

Day 3 - One Body, Many Parts from 2019-12-03T10:00

Day 3 - One Body, Many Parts Healing Ourselves by Deborah Jian Lee “For those of us from marginalized backgrounds & identities, this 4-day devotional offers reflection on what it means to be a suff...

Day 2 - One Body, Many Parts from 2019-12-02T10:00

Day 2 - One Body, Many Parts Name Your Gifts by Deborah Jian Lee “For those of us from marginalized backgrounds & identities, this 4-day devotional offers reflection on what it means to be a suff...

One Body, Many Parts from 2019-12-01T10:00

Receiving Life’s Fullness by Deborah Jian Lee For those of us from marginalized backgrounds & identities, this 4-day devotional offers reflection on what it means to be a suffering part of the Body...

Rev. Katie Aikin: Good Church from 2019-11-23T11:00

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Hannah Bonner: B*tches Witches Dykes&Heretics from 2019-11-02T20:53:46

Hannah Bonner achieved her masters of divinity from Duke University Divinity School. Dedicated to amplifying the voices of young women, she produced a documentary, “Awaken the Voice,” to ensure tha...

Sarah Bowen―Spiritual Rebel from 2019-10-19T13:00

Sarah Bowen is a member of One Spirit Interfaith Seminary's academic staff, Spiritual Directors International, and several recovery communities. She is the best selling author of the award winning ...

Samantha Field: Re-Reading Ruth from 2019-09-26T16:24:55

This episode is sponsored by Faith in Public Life. Please sign the Faith in Public Life petition to end gun violence. Samantha Field grew up in a Christian fundamentalist cult, but escaped as a ...

Adam Evers on Believr from 2019-07-26T17:02:52

Q: What do you get when you put two app developers in a podcast together? A: GREAT CONVERSATION! Ya’ll we queer/Christian business owners are taking over the world. It was a pleasure to sit down wi...

A Game for Good Christians from 2019-07-18T20:54:37

In this episode I interview Ben Christian of A Game for Good Christians. Similar to Cards Against Humanity this card game is irreverent and will most likely make you spit out your drink if you’re n...

Yaz Nuñez: Endings are Beginnings from 2019-05-10T19:22:22

Yaz Nuñez is a friend and former co-worker from Soulforce. Solfource works to sabotage Christian Supremacy and end the political and religious oppression of all marginalized people. With an ethic o...

Erin Green: Brave Commons from 2019-05-03T17:30:11

Erin Green is an affirming biblical scholar and LGBTQ+ activist. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies from Azusa Pacific University and is a current Mdiv student at San Francisco Theologi...

Isaac Archuleta: iAmClinic from 2019-04-19T18:35:56

You may know Isaac Archuleta from a previous episode but I’m bringing him back because we have a surprise to share with you. He is the creator of the I Am Clinic, a place where LGBTQ Christians can...

George Mekhail: Church Clarity from 2019-04-11T16:06:53

George has been in the church his whole life. From growing up in the Coptic Orthodox tradition, to serving in Pastor roles within Evangelical and Mainline Churches. We get the chance to talk abo...

Aaron Bailey: Faith&Startups from 2019-04-04T16:15:54

Aaron Bailey is an executive pastor at Left Hand Church and the founder of Launch Pad, a church planting organization for open and affirming churches. I met Aaron at a conference where we bonded ov...

Elizabeth Jeffries: Not So Air Tight from 2019-03-21T20:01:39

Today’s guest is Elizabeth Jeffries, author of the forthcoming book Through the Kaleidoscope: How Exploring Cell Biology Transforms My Relationship With God. Raised in an evangelical fundamentalist...

Lenny Duncan: Truth-Bomb Goliath from 2019-03-14T19:13:55

Today’s guest is Lenny Duncan, Pastor of Jehu’s Table and author of the upcoming book Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. Today Lenny is discuss...

Danny Prada and the Heartway Church from 2019-03-07T18:49:54

Today’s guest is Danny Prada, pastor of the Heartway Church. Danny aids the homeless population, pastors the Heartway church and hosts their weekly podcast. Pastor Danny is also in the process of w...

Bailey Brawner: Asexuali-TEA from 2019-02-21T22:17:27

Bailey Brawner is the Pastor of two congregations in the United Methodist Church in Alaska. She graduated from Boston University School of Theology with an MDiv. and a certificate in Religion and C...

Kevin Garcia Says We Are Wonder, Fully Made from 2019-02-14T18:01:25

Today for Valentine’s day I wanted to do something special. Valentine’s day can often make you feel that breeze of loneliness. You may feel content in your singleness or your relationship every oth...

GTFOH Epiphany with Tuhina&Jason from 2019-02-07T23:35:35

Tuhina Verma Rasche and Jason Chesnut are two Lutheran ministers and the duo behind such liturgical collections as Shut The Hell Up and Fuck This Shit. This year they focused their dynamic power on...

Carla Sofia, La Mechuda from 2019-01-17T21:15:42

Carla Sofia, also known as La Mechuda, is a lesbian woman, a Latina and a believer of Jesus now based in Argentina. She wants to open the conversation and show that LGBT + people can live spiritual...

Micky Scottbey Jones and the Dragon Book from 2019-01-10T14:17:39

Today I sit down with Micky Scotbey Jones! Micky is a justice doula, a writer, speaker and social justice advocate.  Recently named one of the Black Christian leaders changing the world in Huffingt...

Miriam Samuelson-Roberts - New Year, HEALED You! from 2019-01-04T21:18:19

Miriam Samuelson-Roberts is a co-host of the podcast Alter Guild and the author of our featured OBA devotional, New Year, Healed You. In this episode we discuss her amazing devotional which does aw...

Lyndsey Medford's Burnout Guide from 2018-12-20T17:48:59

Have you ever felt entitled to rest? Can taking a Sabbath be an act of social justice? Lyndsey Medford thinks so! And she penned those words in her devotional series, “The Burnouts Guide to Being H...

Jacob Breeze is Binging the Liturgical Calendar from 2018-12-13T18:00:35

Today’s guest is OBA author Rev. Jacob Breeze. He is the pastor of the Holy Family Church in Houston. He wrote a devotional for the app about the Liturgical calendar and the importance of following...

Laura Jean Truman's Imagination Station from 2018-12-06T19:40:55

Laura Jean Truman is an Atlanta based writer, and the author of Our Bible App’s newest devotional series, Imagination: The Most Underrated Spiritual Discipline. In this episode I get to fangirl all...

Jamie Lee Finch: Ihop Is Not IHOP! from 2018-09-27T18:41:33

Jamie Lee Finch is a musician, poet and a Relationship Guide between humans and their bodies. She works with individuals of all genders who consistently find within themselves an inability to conne...

Chris Stroop: Not Your Mission Field from 2018-08-23T22:04:05

Chris Stroop is an ex-Evangelical seeking to create space for other ex-Evangelicals and exiles from other forms of religious fundamentalism. He writes, “Reclaiming and sharing our ex-Evangelical st...

Jessie Standafer: Child of the Universe from 2018-07-20T20:41:59

Today I bring you a conversation I had with a very special old life friend of mine, Jessie Standafer. You know those conversations where you pick up where you left off after 6 years and don’t reali...

Emily Joy: This Earthly Meatsuit from 2018-07-12T10:00

I'm so excited to be back with another season of Lord Have Mercy and this episode is all about having the kind of sex we WANT to have and loving the bodies we inhabit. This wasn't my idea, it was a...

Sarah Ngu: Church Clarity from 2018-03-08T15:46:07

Join me, Crystal Cheatham as I chat with Sarah Ngu about Church Clarity and a few other projects she's involved in. As a fellow podcaster Sarah has taken charge of Religious Socialism and works as ...

Jazz Fitzgerald: Ya'll All Welcome Here from 2018-02-22T16:50:47

It's been a minute since the last episode. Our Bible App launched and I needed a second to catch up, but I'm back with a bang! Check out Jazz Fitzgerald. Seriously watch her move and shake in this ...

#BlackTransPrayerBook from 2018-01-25T19:57:37

Join me, Crystal Cheatham, as I catch up with an old friend. J Mase III is a black trans poet and together with fellow performer and spiritual guide, Lady Dane Figueroa we tackle common LHM themes ...

Louise Omer is Holy Woman from 2018-01-18T10:16

Our Bible App launched! Check it out in your app store. Subscribe and don't forget to leave a comment so others can find it too! In 2017 Louise Omer left behind a marriage, community and possessio...

Our Bible App: What Happened from 2018-01-09T21:03:01

Our Bible App is about to launch and this time I mean business. But it's been about to launch for a year, and that has been disappointing for so many of you. Matthew Blake sits down in the intervie...

That's Mr. Heathen To You from 2018-01-05T16:07:38

Matthew Blake, or as I like to call him Mr. Heathen, is the host of Heathen podcast. He’s on the other side of Christianity; the outskirts filled with mysticism, spirituality and well…. Questions. ...

Vandalize Bad Theology #HolyBlackedOut from 2017-12-29T19:10:15

Antonia Terrazas and her project Holy Blacked Out is a manifesto against bad theology. Using it as an effort to reframe a history of run-ins with crooked-ish Christianity, Antonia is here to talk a...

Disrupt Worship Project from 2017-12-21T00:05:23

Church is a very Christmasy thing, is it not? There's always some choir to go hear or play of children to witness. But for some folks, church isn't a once a year kind of thing. It's an entire life ...

Episode 14: #ShutTheHellUp: An Advent Devotional from 2017-12-14T09:00

They call it "a visceral language for a visceral gospel." Tuhina Rasche and Jason Chestnut have decided to amplify the intensity of how the good book is read and we are all for it. Join host Crysta...

Episode 13: Sexual Shame with Ryan Johnstone from 2017-05-18T21:26:12

Listen in as Ryan Johnstone opens up about her struggles with Christian fundamentalism and being afraid to look at their own body naked in a mirror. Now they are a sex educator and a founder of the...

Episode 12: Yaz Nunez Remembers PULSE from 2017-03-30T18:04

We all get mad at what's going on in the US today but here's someone who can't stand still and watch. Yaz is a queer faith activist and works for Soulforce. In this episode they talk about the Nati...

Episode 11: Candice Czubernat On Parents from 2017-03-20T19:31:51

A sexy scandal was afoot when guest Candice met her wife. Candice Czubernat is a writer, speaker, therapist and the founder of The Christian Closet, a web-based counseling practice where she specia...

Episode 10: Peterson Toscano Is Saving Coffee from 2017-02-09T16:51

This episode is all about social change. Incase you missed him Peterson Toscano is back for round 2. He makes a surprising yet obvious connection between climate change and queer Christians. Rev Se...

Episode 9: Brandan Robertson&The Big Moody Bible Try And Fail from 2017-02-02T19:39:59

Brandan Robertson was like a bull in a china shop when he came out while completing his pastor-man degree at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Before he graduated they tried to kick him out 6 times...

Episode 8: Inaugural Woes with Amanda Lynn Holmes from 2017-01-26T22:57:34

Crystal Cheatham interviews Amanda Lynn Holmes on how queer Christians can take their activism to local and state levels by challenging their government leaders. Then Rev. Sex shares about the role...

Episode 7: Alison Brook On Purity Culture from 2016-12-01T23:48:53

Alison Brook is a singer songwriter and the guest of this episode. Crystal and Alison are long time friends and could not have had more opposite experiences around sex, virginity and body shaming. ...

Lord Have Mercy: Turkey Day Justice Talks from 2016-11-23T17:56:43

Take a real look into the social justice movement happening now in Christianity, through the work of Lyndsey Godwin at Vanderbilt School of Divinity. Crystal and Rev Sex take a listener's questi...

Lord Have Mercy: Deborah Jian Lee from 2016-11-19T20:21:34

Crystal Cheatham interviews Deborah Jian Lee, award-winning journalist, radio producer and author of Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism. D...

Lord Have Mercy: Badass Preacher's Kid from 2016-10-27T20:47:29

Crystal Cheatham interviews Isaac Archuleta. Find out more at www.crystalcheatham.com/podast

Lord Have Mercy: Peterson Toscano (Part 1) from 2016-10-20T17:29:45

Peterson Toscano is hilarious and poignant and our in-the-meantime-guest as Alba and Crystal craft an entire season of podcasts that don't skimp on the awkward, tense and cringe worthy truths about...

Lord Have Mercy: Does God Hate My Sex Life from 2016-09-16T01:20:04

In this episode Crystal and Alba discuss Song of Solomon.

Lord Have Mercy: Yeah... Paul Is An Asshole from 2016-09-08T17:01:40

Dig deep into the discussions about God the Bible and Sex with co-hosts Crystal Cheatham and Sexologist Reverend Alba Onofrio. Join in on the upbeat banter that is both hilariously irreverent and a...