Advent as a Time of Healing and Resistance

Summary

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