This episode’s drinks: Starbucks cold brew
Topics we covered:
- Australian celebrancy laws versus American officiating
- Marriage equality in Australia
- Religion and secularism in Australia
- Why I pushed the “Minister Marie” thing early in my career
- Why ceremony is so important in our lives
- How Josh doesn’t “write” a ceremony
- How Josh inspired me to challenge my style
- We discuss Field Notes versus Moleskine, Apple versus Android
- How our backgrounds and personal strengths come into our ceremony styles
- Why you need to chase your fears and not shy away from them
- Why Josh loves marriage but not necessarily weddings (what??)
- Why Josh and I both believe good marriages make for a better world
- The relationship between relationship coaching and marriage celebrancy
- I marvel that Australia actually has a life skills class (WHY IS THIS NOT A THING EVERYWHERE??)
- Why I hate the common vow “I promise to never go to bed angry”
- How Josh and I have had to navigate the weird ideas we had about marriage with our very patient spouses
- How the great religions all echo this idea of speaking things into being
- Our role in the marriage ceremony and how it changes in different cultures and countries
- I ask Josh how he figures the logistics with all the travel he’s been doing
- Thinking of the seasonality of the wedding industry as flexibility instead
- How Josh handles the backlash/fallout from being controversial (hint: will it matter in 20 years?)
- How the way the LGBT community is treated in the church affected us both personally as well as professionally
- How stories and context change the way we can understand religion and people
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