Podcasts by Out Loud: LGBT Stories of Faith

Lucas Wilson and Living Into the Questions (Live) from 2022-02-10T10:00

On a very special live episode from the 2022 Q Christian Fellowship Conference, we speak with Lucas Wilson.

Lucas attended gay conversion therapy while studying at Liberty University and ...

Brian Falduto and Being as Present as Possible from 2022-01-13T10:00

Brian Falduto is an actor, singer-songwriter, life coach, and host of The Gay Life Coach Podcast. At age 11, he was cast in the film, School of Rock, and later performed in various...

Keegan Osinski and Queering Her Church from 2021-12-09T10:00

Keegan Osinski is the Librarian for Theological Studies and Ethics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washing...

Tucker Shelton and the Balance of Yin and Yang from 2021-11-11T10:00

Tucker Shelton has studied and taught yoga for over a decade. He has also studied 200 hours of Thai Yoga Massage in Chiang Mai, Thailand and has a Masters with Honors in Contemplative Religious ...

Blake Haney and Writing His Way to Belief from 2021-05-13T10:00

Blake Haney is a musician in Nashville, TN. Born and raised in Chattanooga, he's lived in the South, and more specifically, the state of Tennessee his whole life. Blake went to school in Clarksv...

Katie Pruitt and Finding Her Freedom from 2021-04-15T10:00

Katie Pruitt is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter and guitarist. She was born and raised in Georgia, grew up in the Catholic Church, went to Catholic school, and later attended Belmont Univers...

Bliss Cortez and the Magic of Community from 2021-03-11T11:00

Bliss Cortez has lived in Nashville for over a decade; focusing on their passion of film and multimedia production, creative direction, local art spaces, and being the Nashville Regional Produce...

Justin Hiltner and Giving Yourself Grace from 2020-12-10T11:00

Justin Hiltner is a queer banjo player, songwriter, journalist, and activist living here in Nashville. We talk about how his faith has been tested throughout his life so far, from coming out to ...

Cody Belew and Transcending Religion for Love from 2020-11-12T11:00

Cody is a singer/songwriter here in Nashville, living into his identity as a gay man while making country music. You might recognize his name from Season 3 of Listen

Rachel Iacovone and Finding God During Such a Time as This from 2020-10-08T10:00

You may recognize Rachel's voice as one of the reporters on WPLN, Nashville’s NPR station. She's been in Nashville just a little over a year and i...

Alan Whitley and the God Of Compassion from 2020-06-25T10:00

Our Spring Finale! We’ll return with new episodes this Fall.

Raised Catholic and a native to Nashville, TN, Alan now has a home in the United Methodist Church. He works a...

Rev. Dawn Bennett and Finding Self-Affirmation from 2020-06-11T10:00

Dawn is a queer female Lutheran pastor, recently ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (also known as ELCA). Her family is truly, as she would say, a "rainbow family." Her own s...

Wesley King and Letting the Questions In from 2020-05-28T10:00

Wesley was raised Southern Baptist in Alabama, and now finds himself as the Minister of Music at Eastwood Christian Church, ...

Kashif Andrew Graham and His Deliverance from 2020-05-14T10:00

My conversation with Kashif Andrew Graham ebbs and flows through his experience of coming out to his pentecostal family and friends, as well as institutions here in the south. In what he refers ...

Lindsey Dye and Being the "Right Kind of Christian" from 2020-04-30T10:00

Our Season 3 Premiere! Lindsey Dye is a Case Worker at the Mental Health Cooperative here in Nashville. Growing up Baptist, she struggled to find a church after coming out, eventually findi...

Kelsey Davis on Self-Care and Gathering in Uncertain Times from 2020-03-27T01:00

Bonus Episode in response to the COVID-19 Health Crisis. Originally broadcasted March 26, 2020 on Instagram Live. Pardon the audio quality as this was not recorded in the studio.

Emily Joy and Deconstructing Purity Culture from 2019-06-27T10:00

Our Season 2 Finale! Emily Joy is a poet, writer, and yoga teacher here in Nashville. She identifies as an embodied justice enthusiast which she describes as helping others make peace with their...

Damien-Pascal Domenack and Hope Outside Christianity from 2019-06-13T10:00

Damien is originally from Peru, and grew up in Southern CA raised in the Foursquare evangelical faith tradition. He eventually found himself in Nas...

Live at Vanderbilt from 2019-05-09T10:00

Recorded live at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, TN, we reconnect with season 1 guests, Zack Eccleston, Maria Michonski, and Lee Catoe, about the importance of storytelling for LGBTQIA+...

Lina Landström and Committing to the United Methodist Church from 2019-04-25T10:00

Lina is currently a Master of Theological Studies student at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Her gender pronouns are she/her/hers, identifying both as lesbian and queer. She is originally from Swede...

Amber Cantorna and Coming Out Well into Christianity from 2019-04-11T10:00

Amber Cantorna is a national speaker and author dedicated to supporting LGBTQ people throughout their coming-out process. In her new book Unashamed: A Coming Out Guide for LGBTQ Ch...