Spirit Outspoken

Episode 99: The Gospel According to Dolly Parton: Love, Judgment, and the God Spark

September 16, 2026·34 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

The flags are at half mast for a woman who never held office. That alone tells you something about who Dolly Parton was. Jaisa and Rachael honor her, and sit with the thing that keeps surfacing as the tributes come in. Conservative Christians and drag queens. The LGBTQ community, the Black community, and the Pentecostal church that raised her. Almost nobody gets claimed by all of those rooms, and she managed it without softening who she was. They walk through the one room cabin, the eleven ...

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