In this Nomad Revisited episode, we return to a 2017 conversation with Anglican priest, poet, and writer Rachel Mann. As the first trans person interviewed on Nomad, the exchange unfolds in a spirit of curiosity and vulnerability, with questions that are sometimes tentative and awkward, met by Rachel’s remarkable patience, clarity, and generosity of spirit.
The conversation explores identity as something lived into rather than solved, faith as something encountered in vulnerability rather than certainty, and God as a presence found in darkness, woundedness, and becoming. Rachel reflects on transition, embodiment, sexuality, and the slow work of becoming a self who can live a life rather than perform one — offering not answers so much as an invitation into mystery, nuance, and transformation.
After the interview, Nomad hosts Tim and Nick reflect on what it means to live with questions rather than conclusions — exploring identity as something embodied, evolving, and discovered over time, rather than fixed or declared.
Interview starts at 17m 43s
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BOOKS
Love’s Mysteries: The Body, Grief, Precariousness and God
QUOTES
“I often say it’s the deeply queer God. You know, any God that is designated as three, yet one is pretty flipping queer as far as I’m concerned.”
“God operates in the shade, in the places of darkness, who reveals that the places of darkness aren’t to be treated simply as negative places… but places of becoming.”
“It is the God of becoming who is fundamental to me, but also the God who is unafraid of woundedness, of damage, of vulnerability.”