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The Recovering Evangelical Podcast

Aug 30, 2021

It's our very first episode of The HERetics! Come find out who we are, what we're all about, and why we're doing this.

Content warning: we will potentially be discussing Pray Away - the Netflix documentary. We understand that conversion therapy may be a difficult topic for some to hear. We will do our best to give a...


Aug 26, 2021

This episode features 2 interviews with a man and a woman, both raised in purity culture and now both married, who have found themselves on the asexual spectrum (or figuring out if that's what best describes them). They talk about the shame around that, how it has affected their marriages and identity, and how they...


Aug 19, 2021

Purity culture in the evangelical church ignores everything but heterosexuality but when it comes to damaging, is an equal opportunity abuser. My friend Whitley joins me this week to discuss healing from purity culture and how that affected her journey of coming out and her faith now. 


Aug 12, 2021

On today's episode, we hear a male perspective on purity culture and how, while women and girls have been disproportionately harmed by purity culture, the church still left men with baggage to unpack, behavior to unlearn, and things to apologize for. 


Aug 5, 2021

My friend Blair (@talkpuritytome) joins me to talk about dealing with purity culture after leaving the faith altogether, how the church might just be a sex cult, and how women never truly have bodily autonomy.

I also share some feedback on the latest episode of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill and the absence of consent...