Holiness Isn't a Straight Line

In this episode, Anny Stevens-Gleason and Tym House explore pilgrimage through a queer lens—how queerness teaches trust, safety, nonlinear becoming, and a deeper way of knowing God as companion rather than authority. 

 

What if pilgrimage isn’t only about travel—what if it’s the shape of a life? 

This week, Anny Stevens-Gleason and Tym House return to the theme of pilgrimage and open it up wider: how queerness mirrors pilgrimage, and how pilgrimage mirrors queer life. They talk about the nonlinear roads we take toward authenticity, the way trust and safety shape coming out, and what it means to recognize that the journey didn’t create our truth—it named what we already knew in our bodies. 

Tym shares how queerness was centered in his path to Church of the Redeemer and how experiencing real welcome reshaped his understanding of God—not as an authority against him, but as a companion with him. Together, Anny and Tym ask who pilgrimage is “built for,” how privilege shapes the way we talk about it, and how queer storytelling becomes its own sacred journey. 

Key line: “A pilgrimage from a queer lens isn’t about moving towards holiness. It’s about refusing the lie that holiness only happens in straight lines, safe bodies, or approved paths.”