The Priesthood of All Queer Believers - The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Incarnation in Unexpected Places

Christmas can hold joy—and also grief, pressure, longing, and complicated family dynamics. In this quiet conversation, Tym House and Anny Stevens-Gleason sit with the nativity story (Mary, Joseph, “no room,” and the stable) and ask what it feels like in the body—especially for queer people navigating welcome, rejection, chosen family, and resilience. 
This isn’t about fixing Christmas or finding a “light side.” It’s about telling the truth: you don’t have to feel the right thing, you’re not doing Christmas wrong, and you belong. We end with a blessing for whatever you’re carrying this season—and a reminder that God is born anyway, even in borrowed spaces. 
Content note: discussion of grief, family tension/rejection themes, and church-based exclusion. 

Advent, Angels, and Pretzel Proposal

In this Advent episode of The Priesthood of All (Queer) Believers, Anny and Tym reflect on waiting, memory, and holy surprise—from hidden baby Jesuses and Christmas pageants to candlelight, queer joy, and an unforgettable pretzel proposal. A conversation about anticipation, love, and the sacred stories that form us. 

Come Down, O Love Divine: An Advent Mosaic

This Advent episode gathers a mosaic of voices from our diocesan convention, reflecting on divine love, holy surprise, and the transformative power of queer love in the church. Through stories of family, forgiveness, generosity, courage, and joy, we awaken to love breaking in all around us. Come Down, O Love Divine: An Advent Mosaic invites you into the season’s sacred work of noticing where God is arriving in unexpected ways. 

Queer Love, Holy Vows: Relationship, Church, and an Expansive God

Tym and Anny dive deep into what it means to be in queer relationship in the life of the church—from loneliness and “neutered” church staff expectations to marriage as sacrament, civil contracts, and an ever-expanding God who blesses love in all its forms. 
Content note: This episode includes honest reflections on loneliness in church work and the ways queer people have been sidelined in Christian communities. 

Floor Turkey, Friendsgiving, and the Communion of Saints

Holidays can be beautiful—and complicated. In this episode, Anny Stevens-Gleason and Tym House talk about queerness and the holidays: family expectations, chosen kin, awkward dynamics, sacred rituals, and how to find a table where you can show up as your full, beloved, queer self. 

Queer Joy at the Table: Food, Faith, and the Taste of Belonging

Chef and Procter Center kitchen manager Xandra Sharpe joins Tym and Anny to talk pies, pride, religious trauma, and why food might just be the holiest way we learn to belong. From chocolate gravy to rainbow cakes to the grief and joy of allyship, this episode is a witness to reconciliation, sacred hospitality, and queer joy at the table. 

Chosen Family: Queer Kinship, Church, and the Mess of Belonging

In “Chosen Family: Queer Kinship, Church, and the Mess of Belonging,” Tym and Anny dive into one of the most sacred and complicated words in queer life: family... 
Is there really a difference between friends and chosen family? How does that language show up in queer community, in the church, and in the messy, beautiful overlap between the two? This episode explores queer belonging, responsibility, kinship, and the church as potential chosen family. 

Beloved, Through and Through: A Conversation with Bishop Kristin Uffelman White

What happens when evangelism sounds like love, not a bludgeon? Bishop Kristin Uffelman White, bishop of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, joins Anny and Tym for a wide-ranging, deeply pastoral conversation about the church we are becoming: a place where queer people are told (and shown) that they are beloved, where congregations hold together across difference, and where local churches become reliable sites of God’s transformation.  Bishop White traces her call from teaching to ordained ministry, shares how institutional upheaval clarified her faith in Jesus (not in structures alone), and reflects on evangelism that is relational, not transactional. We talk Psalm 139, the baptismal covenant, Pride Masses, and the hard-won histories we must never forget. There’s glitter, jazz mass, after-school snacks, and the simple holiness of getting to know your neighbors (and their dogs).  If you need a word of hope, a vision for inclusive discipleship, and a blessing to carry into the week—this one’s for you. 

All Means All: Queer, Christian, and Voting

In this candid Election Day conversation, Anny Stevens-Gleason and Tym House reflect on first votes, growing up in conservative church cultures, and how Anglican/Episcopal identity invites us to be “in the world, but not of it.” We explore the rise of Christian nationalism, the harm of legislating against trans folks, and why governing people’s humanity is not the Gospel. We also talk about civic engagement vs. politics, the “pendulum swing” of change, and where we still find joy and hope. The episode closes with prayers from the Episcopal tradition—for the human family and for wise elections. 

The Other Type of Polygamist: Faith, Drag, and Freedom with Molly Mormen

In this moving and courageous episode of The Priesthood of All (Queer) Believers, Anny and Tym sit down with Cincinnati’s own Molly Mormen — a drag performer, community builder, and former Mormon missionary — to talk about what happens when faith, queerness, and purpose collide.   Born and raised in Utah, Molly grew up deeply embedded in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She shares her story of coming out, leaving the church, and finding new life and vocation through drag — a space where she could reclaim joy, serve others, and live authentically.   Together, the three talk about:  • Holding faith after losing religion  • Drag as an act of ministry and survival  • The power of queer joy and chosen family  • Love as the truest image of God   If today’s episode sparks hope, curiosity, resistance, or resonance — let it be a prayer. Let it be a call. Let it be enough.