This week on the Queer Calling Podcast, Keshia Pendigrast interviews Rev. Mykal O Neal Slack. Rev. Mykal is an openly Queer, Black and Trans pastor within the UU tradition, and currently lives in Durham, North Carolina. He serves as the community minister for worship and spiritual care for black lives of Unitarian Universalism and is one of the co-founders of the Transforming Hearts Collective.
Trans and queer pastors exist. Queer people have always belonged to faith-based communities and movements but increasingly queer people are leading them too. What does it mean to be queer and follow the call of ministry? What does it look like to resist transphobia from the pulpit? Keshia chats with trans and queer faith leaders from various traditions about their journeys to self-acceptance and call to ministry.