This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Peelakiiyankwi: Processing Liberation Through an Indigenous American Lens by Ryan Remington. Published by Quoir , and available now. In this episode we chat with Shannon TL Kearns A former fundamentalist who became the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, Shannon TL Kearns believes in the transformative power of story. As an ordained priest, a playwright, a theologian, and a writer all of his work revolves around making meaning through story. His book In the Margins: A Transgender Man's Journey With Scripture is published Eerdmaan's books. No One Taught Me How To Be A Man: What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals About Masculinity is published by Broadleaf Books. Shannon is a co-founder of QueerTheology.com. His work there with Brian G. Murphy has reached more than a million people all over the world through videos, articles, and online courses and community. They have the longest running LBGTQ+ Spirituality podcast in the world. Shannon is a Humanitas New Voices Fellow for 2022 and was a recipient of the Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellowship in 20/21 and he was a Lambda Literary Fellow for 2019 (in playwriting) and 2022 (in screenwriting) and a Finnovation Fellow for 2019/2020. He is a sought after speaker on transgender issues and religion as well as a skilled facilitator of a variety of workshops. Shannon's plays include Laughing, Flexing, Dying, Stories We Tell At the End of the World, Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin, and Who Has Eyes To See. Shannon's television pilots include: The Family Unit, Transformed, and Freedom, Kansas. Selected recognition: Winner of the ScreenCraft Pitch competition, finalist for Bull City Film Festival for his pilot Transformed, a playwright in residence at the Inge House, Seven Devils' Playwright Conference, Great Plains Theatre Commons, a semi-finalist for the O'Neill, and a finalist for the Blue Ink playwriting award. You can connect with Shannon on: Facebook ? ?? Instagram ? ?? Threads You can find all things Shannon TL Kearns related on his? You can preorder No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals about Masculinity on Amazon.com You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook ? ? ? Instagram? ? ? ? TikTok ? ? ? YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners : Heretic Happy Hour ? ? ? Messy Spirituality ? ? ? Apostates Anonymous ? ? Second Cup with Keith ? ?? The Church Needs Therapy Ideas Digest ?? ? ? Snarky Faith Podcast ? ? ? Wild Olive ? ?? Deadly Faith ? ?? Spirituality Brew Pub ? ?? Faith For The Rest Of Us Jonathan_Foster ? ?? Sacred Thoughts ? ?? Holy Heretics ? ?? Reframing Our Stories ? ?? Bros Bibles & Beer? ? ?? Liminal Living Love Covered Life ? ?? The Social Jesus Project ? ?? I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist ? ?? Radical Love Live ? ?? The God Squad Each episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The?Podcast?Doctor ?Eric Howell. If you?re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!