Today we’re chatting with Bec! In this episode, Bec shares her experience growing up as a “Logos” Christadelphian in Australia and trying to follow the ‘straight and narrow’ path until she made the difficult decision to leave her marriage and embrace her identity as a lesbian! Bec shares some vulnerable stories of life inside the ecclesia. From trying to be a good daughter and getting baptized as her mom was dying, to learning about her mother’s hidden heartbreak which had become fodder for gossip at their ecclesia, and to growing up and meeting Christadelphian men who wanted to marry her… if they could control her. Despite some heavy topics, we also enjoyed a few laughs as we asked, what did Solomon’s wives really do together while he was busy? If Christadelphian brothers see rainbows and assume it’s a queer symbol then have they voluntarily given “God’s symbol” to the gay community? And does sage really work to get rid of ghosts in your house??
Please join us for yet another episode of fellowship among the heathens!
TW: Domestic violence, coercive rape, postpartum depression, suicidal ideation
Listener discretion advised.
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References:
Underworld with Kate Beckinsale (2003)
Proverbs 3:15 “She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.”
Forced Adoptions in Australia:
SBS News: “I was told my baby had died. Decades later, I learned that was a lie”
“Social worker tells of forced adoptions”
“Catholic Hospitals Apologize for Forced Adoptions”
Will I ever be good enough by Dr. Karyl McBride
