New and Noteworthy: ‘I Tried to Be Straight,’ Mary Myths, and More | Sojourners

New and Noteworthy: ‘I Tried to Be Straight,’ Mary Myths, and More

Three culture recommendations from our editors.
Nate and Susie from I Tried to Be Straight podcast leaning against each other.
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Queer Healing

Nate Peters and Susie Aguirre are Christians reconciling their faith and sexualities. The I Tried to Be Straight podcasters are reconstructing their faith on a firm foundation and bringing others along, including an ex-conversion therapist and a retired NFL player. Patreon

Mary Myths

Unmaking Mary, by Chine McDonald, challenges the idealized notion of mothering projected onto the Virgin Mary. Weaving her experiences as a mother with theological insight, McDonald dismantles impossible standards to offer a liberating and profoundly human vision of motherhood. Hodder & Stoughton

Redirecting Rage

In The Tears of Things, Richard Rohr explores how Jewish prophets transformed their rage into compassion, promoting empathy in our turbulent world. “Prophets and mystics recognize what most of us do not — that all things have tears and all things deserve tears,” he writes. Convergent

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