Bearing Witness with Tori Jameson

Welcome to the Autistic Mystic, my name is Jeff, I am the autistic mystic, apologies on the front end for the delay in getting new episodes out, I put out an update the other day about my computer troubles but I will be posting 2 episodes a week for the next few weeks to catch up. Today I am joined by the unstoppable Tori Jameson, Tori is a pastor in St. Louis and the founder of Lot’s Wife Trans and Queer Chaplaincy where they minister to the oft overlooked and extra marginalized letters of the LGBTQ2PIA+ community. Tori is an activist and community organizer and if there is social activism happening they are right there in the thick of it using their voice and privilege to give space and a platform for those marginalized communities. In this conversation we talk about the progressive clergy movement, tone policing, the meaning behind the name Lots Wife trans and queer chaplaincy and how churches can better care for and serve the trans community. A quick note, my son woke up twice during this recording, I’ve edited the interruptions out, but because we were live on tiktok while recording Tori had some really good conversations with the people watching. I’m including one of those conversations at the end of the episode so if you want to hear that keep listening after the outro. Okay, I’m gonna stop talking so we can get right into it, so sit back, grab your noise cancelling headphones, and strap yourself in for this week’s info dump. Here’s How to Bear Witness with Tori Jameson

If you want to find them online they are @salty_chaplain on tiktok and Instagram, and you can follow Lots wife trans and queer chaplaincy on Twitter @lotswifechapSTL and if you have the means to support their work financially you can become a lord wife trans and queer chaplaincy patron on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/lotswife. If you want to find me on the web I’m CFC_PastorJeff everywhere, if you want to check out the church where I pastor you can find us at chose family church.com, our services are all online so if you want to join a zoom service hit the “join a zoom service” link at the top of the page, fill out the form, and we’ll send you a link to our next service. You can find this podcast as well as my other projects online at theautisticmystic.ca