Second Sunday – Details, episodes & analysis

As Season 2 comes to a close, we take a moment to reflect on our journey and share insights from our guests. For the first time our producer, Anna DeShawn, join us in conversation and interviews Esther & Darren. This episode is a celebration of the power of storytelling and the importance of finding your own path to faith. 

After tuning in, we'd love to hear your thoughts! Connect with us on social media @SecondSundayPod and tell us what you think through our listener survey. You can take the survey here, https://bit.ly/SecondSundaySurvey24 & it will help inform future episodes of the pod.

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The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready

Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

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Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:

Our Producers Esther, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill

Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker

Our Sound Designer: Florence Barrau-Adams and

Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

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Our opening theme song is Miya B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”. You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

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About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube

The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content.

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Mark Miller is a graduate of Juilliard and Yale University with an expertise in choral conducting, sacred music, and voice. His hymns and anthems are sung by communities of faith throughout the world, and his album, Imagine the People of God, is available on iTunes. He believes that music, social justice, and the beloved community are inextricably tied. His story is about finding God and himself through music. 

After tuning in, we'd love to hear your thoughts! Connect with us on social media @SecondSundayPod and tell us what you think through our listener survey. You can take the survey here, https://bit.ly/SecondSundaySurvey24 & it will help inform future episodes of the pod.

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready

Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

Follow Second Sunday @secondsundaypod, https://instagram.com/secondsundaypod

Subscribe to the podcast, https://secondsundaypod.com

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:

Our Producers Esther, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill

Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker

Our Sound Designer: Florence Barrau-Adams and

Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Our opening theme song is Miya B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”. You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube

The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content.

Discover your next fav BIPOC pod - https://theqube.app

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We’ve got a special treat for you…Bonus content! After tuning in, we'd love to hear your thoughts! Connect with us on social media @SecondSundayPod and tell us what you think through our listener survey. You can take the survey here, https://bit.ly/SecondSundaySurvey24 & it will help inform future episodes of the pod.

We are gearing up for our much-anticipated Season 2 launch on April 24th so we're sharing a powerful moment with Rev. Pamela Lightsey. This one's called "Out and Proud in a Dangerous Time," and it's all about the incredible bond between Pamela and her brother.

Get this – they weren't just hitting the disco scenes; they were defining what it meant to live out loud during a time when it wasn't just bold, it was revolutionary. From impromptu dance-offs in gay clubs to amusing flirtations, their story is nothing short of inspiring.

This episode isn't just a peek into the past; it's a celebration of courage, community, and the unbreakable bonds that define us. Don't miss this lead-up to our exciting new season!

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Take our survey here, https://bit.ly/SecondSundaySurvey24

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️ The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready

Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

Follow Second Sunday @secondsundaypod, https://instagram.com/secondsundaypod

Subscribe to the podcast, https://secondsundaypod.com

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:

Our Producers Esther, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill

Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker

Our Sound Designer: Florence Bah-row Adams and

Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Our opening theme song is Miyah B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”. You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube

The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content.

Discover your next fav BIPOC pod - https://theqube.app

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Rev. Naomi Leapheart is a pastor, activist, professor and director of faith based and interfaith affairs for the City of Philadelphia. In this episode Darren and Esther use Rev. Naomi's words of wisdom to explore the big question: "Do we need everyone?" Where do we draw the lines between trying to get through to people, maintaining relationships, and moving forward? The saints ain't ready for this but we're going to do it anyway. It's Second Sunday.

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready

Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

Follow Second Sunday @secondsundaypod, https://instagram.com/secondsundaypod

Subscribe to the podcast, https://secondsundaypod.com

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:

Our Producers Esther, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill
Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker
Our Sound Designer: Florence Bah-row Adams
Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Our opening theme song is Miyah B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”. You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content. Discover your next fav BIPOC pod - https://theqube.app\

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Rev. Don Abram, the founder of Pride in the Pews, is a queer public theologian and social innovator operating at the intersection of race, religion, and social change. His work and writings have been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Religion News Service, and the Christian Science Monitor. In this episode we get to hear how church shaped and formed all of who he is including his sexuality. He asks us, what if our embrace of queerness is actually the place where we find our liberation? The saints ain't ready for this but we're going to do it anyway. It's Second Sunday.

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready

Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

Follow Second Sunday @secondsundaypod, https://instagram.com/secondsundaypod

Subscribe to the podcast, https://secondsundaypod.com

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:

Our Producers Esther, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill
Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker
Our Sound Designer: Florence Bah-row Adams
Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Our opening theme song is Miyah B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”. You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content. Discover your next fav BIPOC pod - https://theqube.app\

Follow The Qube
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Dr. Pamela Lightsey is a theologian, academic, activist and author who's work has inspired so many. In this episode, we get an in depth look into who she is as a person and how she grew to become the fierce advocate we all know today. Her story will make you laugh, cry, and clutch your pearls. The saints ain't ready for this but we're going to do it anyway. It's Second Sunday.

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready

Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

Follow Second Sunday @secondsundaypod, https://instagram.com/secondsundaypod

Subscribe to the podcast, https://secondsundaypod.com

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:

Our Producers Esther, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill
Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker
Our Sound Designer: Florence Bah-row Adams
Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Our opening theme song is Miyah B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”. You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content. Discover your next fav BIPOC pod - https://theqube.app\

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Carmarion D. Anderson-Harvey is a woman of trans experience and Texas native with a passion for ministry and inclusion. She comes from a family of active church leaders and her story brings us through all the intersections of faith, love, and courage.

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready

Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

Follow Second Sunday @secondsundaypod, https://instagram.com/secondsundaypod

Subscribe to the podcast, https://secondsundaypod.com

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:

Our Producers Esther, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill
Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker
Our Sound Designer: Florence Bah-row Adams
Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Our opening theme song is Miyah B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”. You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content. Discover your next fav BIPOC pod - https://theqube.app\

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A native of Colorado Springs, Rev. Benjamin Reynolds, has spent nearly four decades in active ministry and believes that life is a series of calls and that we may have more than one calling over the course of our lives. He feels the purposes of his calling are yet ahead of him and during this episode you'll hear about one call received and how it all fell apart when they learned he was gay.

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready

Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

Follow Second Sunday @secondsundaypod, https://instagram.com/secondsundaypod

Subscribe to the podcast, https://secondsundaypod.com

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Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:

Our Producers Esther Ikoro, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill
Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker
Our Sound Designer: Florence Bah-row Adams
Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Our opening theme song is Miyah B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”. You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content. Discover your next fav BIPOC pod - https://theqube.app\

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Meet Darren, not only a co-host to this podcast, but a Black gay man of faith who has been through it all and still believes in the transformative power of the divine. Hear his story of finding God, surviving conversion therapy and still standing firm that the divine loves all of who he is in the world.

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

The Second Sunday podcast is hosted by Esther and Darren Calhoun.

Follow Esther @estheralready,https://www.instagram.com/estheralready
Follow Darren @heydarren, https://www.instagram.com/heydarren

Follow Second Sunday @secondsundaypod, https://instagram.com/secondsundaypod

Subscribe to the podcast, https://secondsundaypod.com

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Podcasting is a team sport so thank you to our dream team:
Our Producers  Esther Ikoro, Anna DeShawn, and Nichole Hill
Our Associate Producer: Amber Walker
Our Sound Designer: Florence Bah-row Adams and
Our Managing Producers: Jocelyn Gonzales and Courtney Fleurantin

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

Our opening theme song is Miyah B's original track titled, “They Don't Know”.  You should download the full song today. https://linktr.ee/myiab.music

🙏🏾 ✝️ 📖 🕊️

About this pod Second Sunday is about Black Queer folks finding, keeping and sometimes losing faith. It’s a second look at a topic that feels increasingly dismissed and minimized. It’s Second Sunday.

About The Qube The Qube is a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best BIPOC & QTPOC podcasts. We are here to diversify the fastest growing medium today by creating a space of discoverability for audiences invested in culturally aligned content.

Discover your next fav BIPOC pod - https://theqube.app\
Follow The Qube Instagram, https://instagram.com/thequbeapp
Twitter, https://twitter.com/thequbeapp
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Second Sunday is a podcast about Black queer people finding, keeping, and sometimes losing faith in the Black church. Join hosts Darren and Esther as they take turns exploring the journey of each guest as they navigate religion, spirituality, culture, and identity. You’ll love this show if you have questions about religion, grew up around the Black church, and want to hear perspectives and a tiny bit of advice from people who have survived challenging moments and complicated feelings. Most of all, you’ll love this show if you enjoy listening to hosts who crack jokes first and ask questions later. Tune in to Second Sunday on The Qube or wherever you get your podcasts.

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