Thinking with Lynne Gerber et al.’s Podcast Series “When We All Get to Heaven”

This roundtable brings together a diverse panel of interdisciplinary scholars to celebrate, reflect on, and think with Lynne Gerber, Siri Colom, and Ariana Nedelman’s 10-episode podcast series “When We All Get to Heaven” (Eureka Street Productions, 2025). The product of over a decade’s worth of rigorous scholarship, “When We All Get to Heaven” looks at how a queer church in San Francisco (MCC San Francisco) faced the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. It weaves together a rich audio archive of over 1,200 cassette tapes and dozens of oral history interviews. It also incorporates the most recent, cutting-edge scholarship on religion and sexuality. The panel will critically engage with the podcast’s major contributions and themes. It will also reflect on the continuing relevance of this history today and on the promise and potential for new forms of audio media to reach broader academic and popular audiences.