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Patrick Burrows

Patrick Burrows

Scholar of Christian theology, ethics, and culture at Berea College and interim parish administrator at St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Durham, NC; Harvard Divinity School Th.D.

Sep 1, 2026

Sunday

Sunday

Nepal's religious geography; Dolly Parton and Gay Christianity

Sep 1 · 45m

Emily Buchanan
Emily BuchananHOST
30:24
But why was it so significant for you though?
Patrick Burrows
Patrick BurrowsGUEST
30:27
It was a retreat from the normal.
Patrick Burrows
Patrick BurrowsGUEST
30:30
It was a space really to enter into someone else's dreams.
Patrick Burrows
Patrick BurrowsGUEST
30:34
And Dolly, through Dollywood, really showed me extravagance.
Patrick Burrows
Patrick BurrowsGUEST
30:40
She showed me sort of what glitz and glam and her own sense of being over the top was, and that being over the top, being weird, being just too much a bit.
Patrick Burrows
Patrick BurrowsGUEST
30:52
I mean, the space that Dollywood is is a space that's always been... fairly welcoming and accepting and kind of radically so.
Patrick Burrows
Patrick BurrowsGUEST
31:00
You know, I've said this in times before trying to explain this to people, but it is the gayest thing that a straight person has ever done.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
32:08
The fact that she was a Christian as well, was that a revelation to you?

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