In Church and in Theater, It’s O.K. to Just “Let Things Be Messy”
Interview in Union Magazine, June 2020
I grew up doing what I affectionately call a lot of church-basement drama—a lot of really terrible theater that was focused on justice issues or on trying to win people over.
I no longer have time to waste on mealy mouthed half acceptance. I no longer have time to hold your hand while you process your grief about your kid’s transition. I no longer have time to do this because people are literally dying (and your kid who is transitioning but who is very much alive isn’t one of them).
A Strange Calling – The 1st Old Catholic Transgender Priest
The Salt Collective
The story of how I became the first transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood is a complicated one. I grew up a fundamentalist evangelical in a rural part of Pennsylvania. Church was my life.
I grew up in a tradition with damaging teachings on the body.
I was taught that the spirit is holy and the flesh is evil, so when I began to hate my body it seemed like the right thing to do.
We Desperately Need a New Conversation on Homosexuality and the Bible
Huffington Post, Dec 2017
Over the past 10 years I have found myself doing two things over and over: Coming out and having conversations about the so-called “clobber passages” relating to homosexuality and the Bible.
A Mature and Brilliant Journey into Transgender and Lesbian Struggles
“Twisted Deaths” at Phoenix Theater April 2018
by John Townsend
Shannon TL Kearns has written what may be the most masterful play to date about the transgender experience. Not to mention its rich insights into a lesbian relationship. And I mean right up there with the 2003 groundbreaker I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright.
Queer Content and Creativity Shimmered Throughout the 2018 Twin Cities Theater Scene
Lavender Magazine, Dec 20, 2018
One of this year’s most noticeable developments was that some of the best queer-themed playwriting of the decade was done right here in the Twin Cities by small, humble theater troupes—the Flannel Mafia Group and Uprising Productions.