Love Letters From Rev. Sex Ep. 8: Advent As A Time Of Healing And Resistance Soulforce: Queer Feminist Latinx Faith podcast

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Love Letters From Rev. Sex Ep. 8: Advent as a Time of Healing and Resistance

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Reverend Sex invites listeners into an intimate reflection on sacred time, queer survival, and the fierce, embodied hope we carry into the Advent season. Coming to us in a moment of exhaustion, tenderness, and deep yearning for connection, Rev. Sex opens up about the loss many of us feel after leaving church spaces—particularly the loss of shared ritual, rhythm, and timekeeping that once gave shape to our lives.

As the community enters the first week of Advent, Rev. Sex reclaims this season as a site of resistance to consumerism and despair, offering an invitation to find grounding outside the pressures of capitalism, comparison, and holiday perfectionism. Instead, Rev. Sex centers the ancient practice of preparing for light in the darkest time of year—a reminder shared by many cultures long before Christianity.

This episode explores:

Why sacred time matters, especially for those who’ve left traditional religious spaces
Advent as a queer and decolonial practice, and a counter-ritual to capitalist holiday frenzy
The complexity of hope, and why hopelessness has become one of our community’s most dangerous epidemics
Rejecting passive optimism and the “Deus ex Machina” myth that someone else will save us
Hope as embodied commitment—a gritty, resilient, deeply grounded force that rises bloodied but unbroken
How LGBTQIA+, immigrant, feminist, and earth-based communities embody hope generation after generation
Prayer as both intention and action, and how hope works the same way
Building a future where we thrive, through sustained collective resistance

Hosted by Rev. Sex (Rev. Alba Onofrio - Executive Director of Soulforce), this podcast channel offers connection, reflection, and community for anyone feeling spiritually marginalized or exiled but still resiliently faithful while centering dialogue on Queer, trans, and feminist theology.

The platform gathers people of diverse Christian denominations, pastors, activists, and scholars to discuss gender identity, sex, and pleasure in the context of faith, aiming to heal the wounds of colonizing religion and create a welcoming space for topics often considered taboo in religious spaces.

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