Profanely Sacred

About 20 years ago, not long before I left my first congregation, I did a baby naming for the new child of some dear friends. When I did that naming, there were a couple of things I didn't know – the first was that the parents had just learned that their newborn had cancer, and faced an uncertain future. Thank God, the cancer was caught early, and they're still with us. But, the other thing I didn...

I grew up in the pretty small town of New Fairfield, CT, and one of the other kids in that town was a guy named Adam Sol. Even back then, he was obviously smart and thoughtful, but also funny and casual. I never told him this, but he was definitely someone I looked up to, and probably aspired to be like, at least a bit. In a bit of, I dunno, I guess I'd say radical coincidence, he married a woman...

I cannot begin to explain to you all how excited I am about our guest today. When I was in college, working on our school's radio station, I was introduced to the band Too Much Joy, and I quickly became obsessed with them. Now we'd call them pop-punk, but they didn't really have a genre back then. High energy music, insanely catchy melodies, and amazing lyrics. Some of those lyrics were snarky and...

Our guest this episode is Revered Daniel Brereton, known on various Social Media platforms as Rev Daniel. Reverend Daniel is a priest in the Canadian Anglican church, and a large part of his Social Media presence grows from the fact that he's a gay man. As we'll talk about, he gets into a many a fracas online about LGBTQIA+ issues, and he has some definite thoughts as to why it's worth it to go af...

Our guest this week is probably the most famous social media Talmud hypewoman out there, Miriam Anzovin. Miriam has earned herself an amazing Social Media following by studying the Talmud (an ancient book of Jewish law and learning) and then giving irreverent, but thoughtful, recaps of what she's learned. She is beloved by her followers, but as we'll talk about, has also been on the receiving end...

Welcome to Profanely Sacred, the podcast where we try to talk about really serious things, but not always in serious ways. We talk about God and religion and faith and humanity, but we also swear and tell jokes, so if that isn't your thing, this is probably a good time to find another podcast! But, if you do like talking about God, and also sometimes saying "fuck," then…welcome! Rabbi Laurie Rice...