This week, Joe talks to the executive director of Florida's largest LGBTQ human rights organization; Nadine Smith. Nadine comes from a long line of people fighting for human rights and she takes the legacy seriously.

Nadine is an award winning journalist, named to Time's 100 most influential people in the world and sat with President Bill Clinton in the first meeting between a sitting president and national LGBTQIA leaders.

This conversation is so important, as she reminds us that history already holds the answers to our resistance. Like she said, "There is power in looking back at what we've overcome."

To find out more about Nadine and her work, please click HERE.

Mentioned in the episode:

Wide Awake American Podcast

NY Times Article

Pride at the Capital and Lobby Days

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Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Wherever we come together – at our nationwide festival, smaller local and regional gatherings, or online spaces – we learn and grow by co-creating art, music, story, theater, and spectacle, engaging in a wide variety of robust, courageous conversations with each other and with thought leaders and artists from other communities.

Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

Joe talks to one of our favorite podcasters for another special Sunday bonus episode: Esther Joy Goetz. You probably know her best as one of the Deconstructing Mamas or The Dolly Mama.

Joe and Esther talk about Carl Jung, Richard Rohr, Celtic theology, the shadow self and how non-dual thinking is a key to moving beyond the cruelty of our age.

If you're not already following Esther and would like to, or connect with her work as a spiritual director, or to order her eBook, visit her website HERE.

Make sure to subscribe, give us a rating and share these stories. To connect with Joe on social media or email, please click HERE. To follow Shift Happens on Instagram, please click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Wherever we come together – at our nationwide festival, smaller local and regional gatherings, or online spaces – we learn and grow by co-creating art, music, story, theater, and spectacle, engaging in a wide variety of robust, courageous conversations with each other and with thought leaders and artists from other communities.

Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

This week, Joe talks with Rev. Dr. Angela Parker. Dr. Parker is an associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University School of Theology. Among her published works is the excellent book "If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I".

Joe and Dr. Parker talk about how our view of God and how we are taught to interpret the Bible either brings freedom and liberation or how it stifles and supports the white, Christian nationalism we see taking over the country right now.

To follow Dr. Parker please click the links below:

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If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I

Make sure to subscribe, give us a rating and share these stories. To connect with Joe on social media or email, please click HERE. To follow Shift Happens on Instagram, please click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Wherever we come together – at our nationwide festival, smaller local and regional gatherings, or online spaces – we learn and grow by co-creating art, music, story, theater, and spectacle, engaging in a wide variety of robust, courageous conversations with each other and with thought leaders and artists from other communities.

Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.