Podcasts

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Queerness/asexuality, community, and faith

Jenna talks with host Joanne Turner about asexuality for Ace Week. We go deeper than you may have ever heard before into the intersections of asexuality and other forms of queerness, neurodivergence, disability, sexual behaviors, and more. Getting real, vulnerable, and nuanced.
Jenna talks about asexuality and the church with a fellow Christian ace, with both single and married perspectives represented. Also: what aces need to hear and coming out!
Jenna talks with the Liberation & Inclusion Translation podcast about why she stays Methodist, how we read the Bible both in context and as a religious text for our modern lives, and grief for when our communities don’t live in integrity, among other things. We laugh, we rage, we mourn, and we learn about Matthew 23 in new ways!

Episode Highlights:
What Jesus knew would get him killed;
Why he was fiercest to those – the Pharisees – with whom he was most theologically aligned;
The similar anger we find in ourselves toward evangelicalism going after Christian nationalism;
The importance of rebuking the temptation to read these passages antisemitically;
Why religious fakers pissed Jesus off so much;
How truthfulness and no-bullshit vibes became central to Jesus’ social vision;
Why Jesus would be so irate at Christians antagonizing LGBTQ folk in his name;
and more!
This episode is the story of how to find your people and create safety when building community online:

Finding resources that work for you, and sharing that oasis of resources with others. 
The generous, life-saving rules of online communities that actually work. 
Identifying the shared values and group rules that make the community better. 
Widening our definition of “found family”
Lessons learned from online and in-person faith communities and queer communities.

If you want healthier friendships, this is the episode for you.
Delighted to share this interview from earlier this year with Destiny’s Universe! We had so much fun and talked about issues affecting aces from politics to religion to media, why we need every ace and aro voice speaking up, and how amatonormativity affects us all.
James and Jenna discuss two songs – “You’re Losing Me” by Taylor Swift and “Faith” by Selmer – and explore them in detail, in relation to their respective messages about queer liberation and owning your gender and identity. We also touch on how despite one piece of art being labeled “secular” and one more overtly “Christian,” both can impart equally powerful messages about these issues.
Jenna talks to Cortland and Meghan on Thereafter about how purity culture has affected aces and aros, what it’s like to be an affirming Side A asexual and aromantic sapphic woman, and common myths and most needed areas of advocacy.
Kelly Wolfe and Jenna talk about the A in LGBTQIA+ and amatonormativity, as well as why sexual liberation must include the choice not to have it.
D.L. chats with Jenna DeWitt about Captivating, the highly-influential prescriptive romance guide for young Christian women in the early 2000s. We tackle the harmful biases around gender roles and romance from an asexual and aromantic perspective.
Bekah McNeel catches up with Jenna DeWitt, whose Twitter presence and blog explore the many facets of queerness, faith change, and all the ways people can feel unseen. She joins the pod to talk about how queer identities fit into the church, and how they are currently pushed to the edges in a lot of ways. Jenna is a wealth of information for those at various points in coming out or becoming affirming, especially if that includes an active faith component.
Refuge Radio talks with Jenna DeWitt about aromanticism, asexuality, faith, and resources for those in the aro and ace community. She discusses the different ways to be a-spec, mental health and medical stigma, church, and some personal parts of her own story.
James, Holly, and Jenna explore different sexual ethics, and how we should honour and respect each others sexual ethics, even if they’re different. We discuss how harmful it can be to force one sexual ethic on everyone, and how sexuality in our culture is very static. We share about how this static view differs from our basic biological make ups, which are all very different and how every ethical expression of sexuality – including things like abstinence and asexuality and waiting until marriage – all belong. 
In this episode, Jenna talks to MaryB. Safrit about the value of both intergenerational and digital relationships, the challenges of not having a community of people like you, why the idolatry of romance and marriage is harmful for everyone, what church family could look like, and values-based boundary-setting.
In this episode of Elle Rose’s The Invisible Spectrum, Jenna DeWitt discusses her views on being a queer Christian, being aroace in a world that doesn’t cater to aroace experiences, and aegosexuality, and aegoromanticism. We discuss the different branches of Christianity that accept the LGBTQIA+ community, representation, and how being aromantic is not synonymous with hating romance–it just means not having romantic attraction. 

Jenna DeWitt and Chris Morris join Kate Boyd for an episode of the Happy and Holy podcast to talk about Mark 5-6: the Jesus who rests, what it means to worship, and what story parallels from the Old Testament come through as John the Baptists meets his fate.
Morgan Strehlow, host of the Sanctuary Woman podcast, and Jenna talk about asexuality, aromanticism, and singleness and what it has been like for Jenna to navigate life in a world and in a church that assumes that everyone wants to be in a sexual, romantic relationship. This is part of the Summer of Sex Ed series, featuring sex educators, sexuality professionals and a few friends of the podcast to come talk with us about women’s sexuality for those of us who never received a proper sex education while growing up in purity culture.
Jenna and Kelly join Aaron for a special episode of Cultural Savage. This is a conversation about sexual ethics but also it’s a conversation about shame, vulnerability, mutuality, spiritual maturity. Not all light and fluffy, though! We also touch on controversial topics like sexy cars, Bridgerton, and steak. NSFW and/or children.
James Prescott’s Poema Podcast discusses spirituality, creativity, and reclaiming the art of conversation. On this episode, Jenna tells her story of discovering her own sexual and romantic identity having grown up in a more traditional Christian environment. Jenna shares about the wide variety of types on the aromantic and asexual spectrum, and how she discovered a community of people just like her, and found a healthy faith community which accepted her. She likens the wide variety in every aspect of creation, planets, plants, races, animals, how all are different yet all are beautiful and belong. She also talks about the diversity of the divine themselves, and how this should and is reflected in his creation, including humanity.
Jenna joins Aaron to talk about asexuality and faith.
Where Do We Go From Here is a podcast untangling sexual ethics for a new generation of Christians through conversations that give you the tools you need to develop your own ideas to help you, your community, and your church live a wholehearted life exactly where you are today. It’s our first episode about queer Christianity, and Jenna DeWitt joins us to talk about aromantic asexuality. We talk about what it’s been like for her to navigate a church life and secular life that assumes everyone is sexually attracted to someone, and Jenna shares her calling with us for asexual people to know that they aren’t alone.

Pop culture and personal growth/grief/spirituality

This week Jenna DeWitt returns to the show for a conversation with host James Prescott about Taylor Swift’s recent album “Midnights” and the Enneagram.

Jenna briefly introduces the Enneagram and we talk a bit about Taylor’s likely Enneagram numbers (3w4). Then we explore how this relates to the recent fallout with Ticketmaster regarding her tour.

Then we talk about how the album is reflective of Taylor’s own personal and creative journey, her lived experiences, and how she’s often been perceived and treated by the media and those who aren’t fans.

We also discuss how many of the challenges she can face are typical of her Enneagram number, and end by exploring how all of us, whatever our Enneagram number, can embrace our identities and move into growth and transformation.
In the second in a short ‘Taylor Swift’ themed podcast series, Jenna DeWitt joins James Prescott to discuss Taylor Swift’s story and music in the context of identity and the Enneagram. 

We go through Taylor’s career and see how her music reflected her own personal journey into discovering and owning her own power and voice, and what we notice about her personality type – Enneagram 3w4 – through this journey. 

Jenna shares her own personal experience growing up with Taylor’s music, being a similar age and personality type, and how it connected to her own growth and empowerment. James also shares how Taylor’s music has connected with him on his journey as a 4w5. 

This episode again touches on how music can connect with us so personally at different stages of our journeys, and how we find our own stories through the art and stories given to us by master storytellers like Taylor.
Jenna and James discuss Taylor Swift’s “1989 – Taylor’s Version” which released earlier this year.

Jenna shares her own experience with the album – both the new version, and the original – and what these meant for her as she explored her own identity.

Then together we explore various tracks on the album and the stories behind them. We discuss how these songs and their stories, and art in general, can help us as we process issues of grief, transformation and identity.

As we do so, we see more of how the creative process can heal and transform us.
Jenna DeWitt returns to the podcast this week to discuss Taylor Swift’s latest album, the “Tortured Poets Department”.

Jenna and James explore several of the tracks and how they relate to the deconstruction journey, living as an LGBTQIA person and the experiences of grief and trauma. We look at them in the context of our own journeys and Taylor’s own story, and what we can learn from them.

This again is such a fun episode, and another example of how great art can connect with our stories & help our healing.
In this final episode of 2024, fellow Whovian Jenna DeWitt returns to the podcast to talk about a character we both love, The Doctor.

In particular, we talk about a recurring theme in the show, and on this show, grief. The grief of losing companions, of people he is trying to save sometimes dying or sacrificing themselves, and above all, of him having to grieve his own death, every time he regenerates.

Even if you don’t know the show, there’s a lot here which can relate to various experiences of grief we can have, death, loss of friends, loss of community, moving on from our past selves, and how all of this can relate to us in the deconstruction community, and personal growth generally.
This week Jenna DeWitt is back on the podcast, this time we discuss the MCU movie “The Marvels”, the sequel to Captain Marvel, the MCU’s leading female superhero currently.

Jenna shares how this movie and the journey of the lead characters in it, have been really impact for her as a queer, asexual woman. She also talks about how the movie covers themes of grief and loss, something often found in these type of movies, and identity.

This was such a fun conversation, hope you enjoy it.