Credits & Acknowledgements

When We All Get to Heaven was made possible by a community of contributors, collaborators, advisors, and friends.

 Our Project Advisors

  • Kent Brintnall –  University of North Carolina, Charlotte

  • Ashon Crawley – University of Virginia

  • Lynn Jordan – Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco

  • Mark Jordan – Harvard Divinity School

  • Kathryn Lofton – Yale University

The many academic institutions and programs that have supported this project over the years

  • Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School

    • Ann Braude and Tracy Wall

  • Congregational Studies Team

    • Especially Bill McKinney, Steve Warner, Nancy Ammerman, and Gerardo Marti

  • American Religious Sounds Project

    •  Amy DeRogatis and Isaac Weiner

  • University of California, Berkeley

    • Beatrice Bain Research Group 

    • Religion, Politics and Globalization Program

    • Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

      • Christine Trost 

    • Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program

      • Stefanie Ebeling

  • Worcester State University

    • Worcester State Foundation

    • Department of Sociology & Dean Russ Pottle

  • Sacred Writes

    • Liz Bucar and Megan Goodwin

  • The Religion, Race, and Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia

  • The Symposium on Religion in the American West

    • Clements Center of Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

    • Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art

    • Brett Hendrickson and Brandi Denison

Archives and archivists

  • San Francisco Public Library

    • Susan Goldstein, Tim Wilson

  • Graduate Theological Union

    • David Stiver

  • Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion at the Pacific School of Religion

    • Bernie Schlager

  • GLBTHS

    • Isaac Fellman, John Raines

  • Scott Bloom and Trogoidia Films  

Funders and Supporters

  • American Academy of Religion

  • Henry Luce Foundation

    • Jonathan VanAntwerpen

  • California Humanities 

  • E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

  • The Hewat Fund at RSF

  • Individual Supporters

    • Anonymous, Louette Colombano, Frisky Divinity Productions, Susan Goldstein, Rebecca Gordon and Jan Adams, Jane and Michael Haney, Johannah Haney, Jone and Tim Haney, Jennifer Ladd, Catherine Leiser and Christopher Janeway, Becky Liebman, Katie Lofton, Tessie Mandeville and Lisa Heezen, Alec Nedelman and Libby Pachares, Adam Ouderkirk, Sarah Quinn and Brian Kapusta, Amelie Ratliff, Elaine Reily and Marilyn Stern, Sharon Rich and Nancy Reed, Marci Riseman and Evan Sagerman, Pam Rogers, Ruth Roper, Judy Weiss

  • And the many contributors to our Givebutter campaign!

Donations were received

  • In memory of

    • Charles Gohman, Harold Huntington, Greg Kastl, Tede Matthews, Michael Ritter, Bill Smith 

  • In honor of,

    • Lynne Gerber, Lynn Jordan, Jim Mitulski 

For business advice

  • Ian Fox, Ben Riskin, Amy Westervelt 

For help on the business end

  • FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds

    • Sophia Trombold

  • Adam Ouderkirk


For Legal help

  • Hosea Baskin

  • Julien Swanson and everyone at Austin Swanson Associates


Women’s Audio Mission – for making us sound so darn good!!!


Our many friends and colleagues who listened to and commented on countless episode drafts. 


Everyone at Slate, especially Mia Lobel for making this possible.


The friends we never knew we needed at the Nonfiction Hotlist.


Every single one of the over 100 people we interviewed – those who did and did not end up in the final version. We learned from every one of you. And we’re not done yet! 

  • And in memory of those we interviewed who have since left us

    • Steve Carson, Robert Cromey, Jay Deacon, Jack Hoggatt-St. John, Larry Hughes, August O’Connor,  Steve Pieters, Sandra Robinson, Cees van Aalst, Velle Prewitt.


Everyone in the MCCSF congregation and the MCCSF faith-filled clergy who believed in us and supported this project over its many years. 

  • Rev. Daniel Borysewicz, Rev. Lea Brown,  Rev. Victor Floyd, Rev. William Knight, Rev. Robert Shively, Rev. Annie Steinberg-Behrman.


Other supportive friends for their many supportive acts

  • Tom Bremer, John Cunningham, Jorg Foekele, Brett Krutzsch, Maggie Kulyk, Thomas Kurtz, Brendan McHugh, Danny Nicoletta, Matt and Colette Potts, the Renegade Humanists Collective, Lisa Webster, Seth Freed Wesssler. 


Our friends, our families, and our friend-families

  • Lynne – Michael Allen, Jackie Bass, KC Bitterman, Kent Brintnall, Robin Dennings, Rachel Gross, Tracy Hewat, Christopher Janeway, Rebecca O. Johnson, Catherine Leiser, Gina Lovoi, Brian Kapusta, Patricia Maher, Daniel Martinez, Sarah Quinn, Elaine Reily, Marci Riseman, Evan Sagerman, Shane Snowdon, Almitra Stanley, Marilyn Stern, Susan Stinson, George Triantafillou, Susan Triantafillou, Heather White, the Borelli/Shute crew,  the Giving Gals, the Tuesday night movie group, and the whole, wide, welcoming Haney family. In loving memory of Harold Huntington. 

  • Ariana – Stephanie Worobey, Sasha Galbraith-Lipton, Hope Rehak, Hannah Rehak, Helen Hailes, Steven Lauterwasser, Casper ter Kuile, Lauren Sandler, Lucy Little, Ben Paul, Jeff Emtman

  • Siri — Pegah Rahmanian, Lulian, and Tiam, the Colom Family (Diane, Bill, Trevor, and Evan); the whole Curtis Fam; Sarah Quinn (again), Sookyoung Lee, Victoria Restler, and James Greene, for sharing their networks; The Coop family; Transom Traveling workshop Catalina Island 2017; in memory of Michael Burawoy

  

Research Assistants

  • UC Berkeley 

    • Susannah Chaplain, pan elllington, James Huynh, Aaron Kavanaugh, Jane Kim, Elle Kurata, Alon Mazor, Pauline Miller, Emily Niles, Meghan Reddy, Hazel Roxas, Erica Thomas, Catherine Van Dyke, Ale Vasquez, Jasmine Verrett,, Sara Volkmann, Keith Watts, Justin Yoo

    • Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program at UC Berkeley

  • Harvard Divinity School – Taylor Buehler, Rachel Deitch, Siobhan Kelly 


And every person who answered one of our endless emails seeking advice, counsel, support, ideas –  anything really. The generosity of strangers and friends in such moments overwhelms us. 

Production Team

Executive Producer/Host – Lynne Gerber

Co-Founder/Producer – Siri Colom

Co-Founder/Producer – Ariana Nedelman

Managing Producer – Sarah Ventre (January 2023-; Krissy Clark (November 2024-present)

Story Editor – Sayre Quevedo

Sound Designer – David Herman

Consulting Producer – Tim Dillinger

Fact Checker – Betsy Towner Levine

Additional editorial advising – Allison Behringer, Arwen Nicks, Krissy Clark, Sarah Ventre

Outreach coordinator – Ariana Martinez

Music by Tasty Morsels and the musicians, congregants and friends of MCC San Francisco under the musical leadership of Bob Crocker and Jack Hoggatt-St. John.

Production Interns – Nico Kossakowski, Carrie Hale, Victoria Nascimento