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b'As a way to be more inclusive and expand these podcasts even more, we are going to feature conversations with Queer Theology podcast listeners. For the next couple of weeks, we will interview different folks and they will share with us their favorite Bible stories and their own journey.\\nThis week, we interviewed Indigo Rose who is a published poet, a teacher and an author.\\nWe hope that you\\u2019ll enjoy these types of podcast episodes \\u2014 we\\u2019d like to do even more interviews with listeners, as well as activists, musicians, parents, and more. If you do, and would want for us to continue doing this work. We would appreciate it if you visit and support us over at patreon.com/queertheology.\\nEpisode Transcript\\nBrian: Welcome to the Queer Theology podcast!\\nFr. Shay: Where each episode, we take a queer look at the week\\u2019s lectionary readings. We\\u2019re the co-founders of QueerTheology.com and the hosts for this podcast. I\\u2019m Father Shay Kearns\\xa0\\nB: And I\\u2019m Brian G. Murphy.\\nFS: Welcome back to the Queer Theology podcast. Last week was episode 300! Can you even believe it?\\nB: I can hardly believe it.\\xa0\\nFS: It was so great to celebrate with all of you. We talked a little bit about what the past six years has meant to us and where we are headed for the future. Just as a reminder, we launched an amazing Patreon, so that you can support this work and keep it moving into the future strongly. You can check that out at patreon.com/queertheology.\\xa0\\nWe talked about wanting to be able to feature more voices and so for the next couple of weeks, we are going to feature some interviews with folks that listen to the podcast, who wanted to share some of their favorite Bible stories, and also talk a little bit about what their journeys have been. So we are super excited to feature those for the next couple of weeks.\\nB: Yup! First up is Indigo Rose and we chatted the other day about a bunch of things including two of her favorite Bible passages, we talked about sex and spirituality, we talked about navigating unaffirming family and spaces, we talked about loving across disagreements, and finding the divine in differences. It was a really great conversation and I\\u2019m looking forward to sharing that with you now.\\nFS: Yes, so a little bit more about Indigo. Indigo Rose attended college in Pasadena CA. She now teaches in Pasadena CA after traveling around the country in different educational environments.\\xa0\\nShe is a published poet under a different name and can be found on Twitter @SinQueerlyRose. She has a book that can be found on Amazon called Careful with Her Memory.\\xa0\\nShe looks forward to a career as a mental health professional, teacher, poet, and author.\\n[Interview starts]\\nB: I\\u2019m so excited to be doing our first guest interview of this little series that we are doing right now. I am joined today with Indigo Rose.\\nIndigo Rose: Hi!\\nB: Thanks for being here Indigo. We met a month or so ago, and had been dreaming it out being this happening ever since. So it\\u2019s exciting to have you here today. For those of the folks listening at home who don\\u2019t know you yet, can you tell us your pronouns and some of the identities that are important to you?\\nIR: Yeah, sure. So I\\u2019m Indigo Rose, my pronouns are she/her/hers and I identify as a bisexual, bipolar queer individual. That\\u2019s basically, my core identities are those things and I really relate to these things in good and sometimes negative ways. But it\\u2019s all really a part of who I am.\\nB: Well, thank you for being here!\\nIR: Yeah!\\nB: So can you tell us just a little bit about your faith journey that has brought you from there to this moment.\\nIR: Okay. I grew up without really a religious background. I grew up kind of agnostic: not really knowing which way was up, kind of deal. I ended up going to a Christian college just because I thought they would be like a good influence on me, and there would be good people, and I would be chill and happy. My freshman year was like hell on earth. I was really overweight, I was on 13 pills a day fo'