Episode 5: It’s All Connected In the final episode of this Rural Faith Initiative, Rev’d Claire Brown and Rev’d Whitney Kimball Coe discuss how diversity and celebration of gender and sexuality fit into the bigger picture for affirming churches in the rural South. This research and these stories have been collected by Brown, an Episcopal priest in rural Tennessee.
Read MoreEpisode 4: Getting Kicked out of the Jesus Parade explores the considerations of care, safety, and visibility for welcoming congregations and looks at how they share their community welcome in often oppositional cultural and political climates. Rev'd Whitney Kimball Coe talks with Rev'd Claire Brown about what she observed in her research and church visits with LGBTQ+ affirming churches in the rural South.
Read MoreEpisode 3: Witness and Worries explores the considerations of care, safety, and visibility for welcoming congregations and looks at how they share their community welcome in often oppositional cultural and political climates. Rev'd Whitney Kimball Coe talks with Rev'd Claire Brown about what she observed in her research and church visits with LGBTQ+ affirming churches in the rural South.
Read MoreHow are the values of Southern hospitality and Christian welcome practiced in LGBTQ+ affirming churches in the rural south? Drawing on real-life examples from churches in Mississippi and North Carolina, The Rev’d Claire Brown shares stories and observations of hospitality and welcoming for LGBTQ+ people in churches she visited during her research on affirming churches in the rural South. Rev’d Brown found that it goes beyond official theological positions and into the simple practices of church hospitality. This is a conversation with the director of the Rural Faith Initiative, Whitney Kimball Coe.
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