Spirit Outspoken

The flags are at half mast for a woman who never held office. That alone tells you something about who Dolly Parton was.

Jaisa and Rachael honor her, and sit with the thing that keeps surfacing as the tributes come in. Conservative Christians and drag queens. The LGBTQ community, the Black community, and the Pentecostal church that raised her. Almost nobody gets claimed by all of those rooms, and she managed it without softening who she was.

They walk through the one room cabin, the eleven siblings, the father who never learned to read. Then the part this show cares about most. Dolly believed there was a God spark in every person and made it her job to go looking for it. She called herself spiritual rather than religious, and refused, repeatedly and on the record, to judge anybody.

Hard to argue with love.

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Jaisa and Rachael hit record on this one at the kitchen table, mid mental breakdown, on the theory that they could not possibly be the only ones.
August 27 was the lunar eclipse in Pisces, and it closed an eclipse cycle that opened in September 2024. Which happens to be the exact month Spirit Outspoken launched. Two years of the Virgo Pisces axis doing its work, and neither of them came out the other side as the same person.
In this episode they get into what that cycle has actually been asking. Virgo wants order and analysis and the reassurance that if you just get everything right, you will be safe. Pisces wants surrender, and faith in what cannot be proven or controlled. Sitting between those two is deeply uncomfortable, and this is an honest account of that discomfort from inside it.
Rachael talks about the chameleon years and what it costs to finally have a voice. Jaisa talks about grieving an identity she spent a career building, and the strange experience of feeling something in your body long before your mind catches up.
If you have mutable placements, or you have just felt unrecognizable to yourself lately, you are not alone. Come lament in the comments.

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Every time we talk about loving our LGBTQ neighbors, the same question shows up in our comments: isn't it our job as Christians to point out sin?

In this bonus episode, priest and public theologian Joash P. Thomas answers it. The only people Jesus talks about judgment with are religious leaders abusing their power. Everyone else gets grace. Joash argues the pressure to correct other people never came from Jesus, it came from colonizers and the western church that learned its theology from them, and he makes his case for LGBTQ inclusion straight from the book of Acts, where the Spirit is always out ahead and the church struggles to keep up.

He also answers the question a family member really asked him, "would you ever marry the gays," with a sacramental answer we did not see coming.

Short episode, big exhale. It brings the whole thing back to love, which was always the point.

Our guest: Joash P. Thomas is a priest, public theologian, and the author of The Justice of Jesus.
 Follow Joash: Instagram @joashpthomas TikTok: @joashpthomas
Substack: https://substack.com/@joashpthomas
Website: https://www.joashpthomas.com/
Order his book, The Justice of Jesus, on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4yvcKmI

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Episode 58: The 1946 Mistake That Changed Christianity: How “Homosexual” Entered the Bible

Episode 59: What We Got Wrong About Homosexuality: Culture, Politis & The Church (Part 2)

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If you’ve ever wondered whether there’s more happening around you than what you can see, this conversation is for you.
Kathleen Ives spent kindergarten through 12th grade in Catholic school, eventually swung about as close to atheism as you can get, and today works as a psychic medium and intuitive guide. Somewhere along the way, Jesus reentered the picture unexpectedly. She didn’t go looking for him, and for a long time, she resisted what she was experiencing.
In this conversation, Jaisa and Rachael talk with Kathleen about what it actually means to connect with spirit, how she experiences the unseen world, and why ideas that can sound “woo woo” begin to feel very different when viewed through the lens of energy, frequency, and curiosity rather than fear.
They explore signs, synchronicities, intuition, and the possibility that there may be far more happening around us than we typically notice.
And then the conversation goes somewhere Kathleen never expected: back to Jesus. Not as a figure we’re meant to hand our power over to, but as a healer whose life and teachings may have been pointing toward what is possible within all of us. For Kathleen, Mary Magdalene became an unexpected doorway back to understanding him - and that opens up an entirely different conversation about faith, power, and spirituality.
This episode is an invitation to stay curious about the unseen, loosen our certainty, and consider what might become possible when we stop being afraid of what we don’t yet understand.
Our guest: Kathleen Ives is a spirit medium, intuitive coach, death educator and author who walks women through life's most tender seasons of change, grief and growth. Her work is a reminder that even in the heaviest chapters, it is safe to feel good again. 
Book A Session/Discount Code: Visit KathleenIves.com to book your session. Enter “SPIRITOUTSPOKEN” at checkout to receive 10% off.
Purchase Kathleen’s Book: Order your copy of “7 Ways to Live In-JOY Today” on Amazon
Follow Kathleen: Instagram: @kathleenives_ 
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Episode 79: Journey Beyond the Veil – Finding Healing Through Mediumship w/ Camille McConnell
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What if the fear, chaos and searching all come from one belief, that we're separate from God, from one another, and from the parts of ourselves we were taught to reject? Taylor Perkins joins Jaisa and Rachael for a conversation about union, faith, and the illusion of separation.
Taylor's argument is that the divine was never something outside of us we're straining to reach. We get into Jesus and Krishna, why Jesus kept talking about weddings and bridal chambers, and what "I and the Father are one" actually claims.
Then it gets personal. Reality is a mirror, so the pieces of ourselves we bury keep showing up outside of us. Taylor shares what finally moved a 20 year struggle, and it wasn't fighting harder. 
Our guest: Taylor Perkins is a spiritual teacher weaving the Gnostic gospels, the Bhagavad Gita and eastern contemplative traditions into one thesis about union. Follow Taylor: Instagram @iamtaylorperkins  TikTok: @iamtaylorperkins.backup
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Episode 73: The Language of Energy - Intuition, Vibration & Spiritual Guidance w/ Sonia Choquette
Episode 68: Do Souls Evolve? Soul Levels, Reincarnation & Compassion w/ Ainslie MacLeod
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