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In this quick episode, I talk about the 2024 US Election. Show notes: My latest entry at The Post-Evangelical Post (https://www.postevangelicalpost.com/p/6-days?r=2d6l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) Emily Joy Allison addressing white exvangelicals (https://instagram.com/p/DBrEMp2Okz_) on Instagram. Kristin Du Mez: Preparing for Tuesday (https://open.substack.com/pub/kristindumez/p/preparing-for-tuesday?r=2d6l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) Robert P. Jones: The Survey Findings Keeping Me Up at Night (https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/one-week-from-the-election-the-survey?r=2d6l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) -…

Today I'm publishing an archival episode with Reza Aslan, who called my book Exvangelical & Beyond (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9780593717073) "[a]n insightful exploration of faith, identity, and activism in a nation at the crossroads of religious fervor and social change…At once alarming and hopeful, this is a book that every American must read,…

My book, Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back, is out TODAY, wherever books are sold. Buy here (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9780593717073) or at your local bookstore. In this short episode, I express my gratitude for this opportunity and share my hopes for this book. Read…

In this minisode, I talk about the 2023 Census of American Religion published by PRRI. This is an adaptation & expansion of my latest post at The Post-Evangelical Post (https://www.postevangelicalpost.com/p/thoughts-on-the-latest-prri-study) . Exvangelical & Beyond comes out in under a month! Pre-order now (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9780593717073) ! Learn more about your ad choices.…

Today's guest is the author Tia Levings, writer of the new book A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy. You may also know her from the Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People and her newsletter The Anti-Fundamentalist. Her memoir is visceral and powerful, and just joined the bestseller list. Buy…

My book, Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back, will be coming out in just under a couple of months on 9/24/24. The publisher, Tarcher Perigee, has opened up applications to join the Launch Team! Up to 50 people will be chosen to…

In this episode, I got to speak to Timothy Morton. They are the author of over 20 books, including their most recent, Hell: In Search of A Christian Ecology (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9780231214711) . Timothy is a recent convert to Christianity after decades exploring Buddhism and other philosophies, and their prior book Hyperobjects…

Today I'm sharing my recent conversation with Cait West, author of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy. This is a great debut memoir from West and a wonderful addition to this growing genre of books. I was very grateful to be able to talk to her. You…

May has been busy! Today I'm highlighting a conversation I had last year with Scott Okamoto, author of Asian American Apostate (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781957687131) . In an extended intro, I also share the news about the cover reveal of my forthcoming book, Exvangelical & Beyond (https://www.postevangelicalpost.com/p/cover-reveal-for-exvangelical-and) . You can pre-order it here…

In today's episode I talk to Jason Kirk, author of the novel Hell Is a World Without You. If you ever wanted to know what it was like to be a hormonal evangelical teenage boy in the late-90s/early oughts (or want to revisit your mindset if you were that teenage…

This is a re-release of my October 2022 interview with author Becca Andrews about her book No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781541768390) . I was reminded of the importance of this book and others like it after reading…

Today I'm talking to Sarah McCammon, NPR political correspondent and author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781250284471) . We talk about her personal experiences within white evangelicalism as well as how that informed her role as a journalist covering the 2015-2016 presidential campaign of…

This week I'm joined by Matthew Sheffield from Flux. We discuss Mormonism & evangelicalism, his experiences in right-wing media, and the 2024 election. It's a broad-reaching conversation that I hope you enjoy. Follow Matthew's work at Flux (https://plus.flux.community/) , including the podcasts Theory of Change (https://plus.flux.community/s/theory-of-change) , Doomscroll (https://plus.flux.community/s/doomscroll-podcast) ,…

This week I'm re-releasing my conversation with Beth Allison Barr, author of the book The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781587434709) . I'm joined by two guest co-hosts, Emily Autenrieth and Laura Agase. The theology and practice of complementarianism in conservative Christian circles…

Today's guest is Lenny Duncan, author of the new book Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781506479026) . This is a wide-ranging conversation, and I can't wait for you to listen. This conversation is another entry in my new series, The Good Books.…

Hello, 2024! Today I'm overjoyed to share my conversation with Kevin Garcia about their new book, What Makes You Bloom: Cultivating a Practice for Connecting with Your Divine Self. (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781506493589) This book is all about establishing new spiritual practices after leaving rigid fundamentalism, and I hope you check it out…

This week's guest is is Dr. Laura Anderson, author of the book When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781587435881) . We talk about the definitions of trauma and abuse, what drew her to this work, the importance of embodiment, and more. Find…

It's been a minute--well, more than a minute. Almost 4 months. Glad to be back to share this interview with Matthias Roberts, author of the new book Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781506485652) . We talk about Matthias' story, the language we use to describe our…

Happy Pride, everyone! I'm re-releasing this 2021 interview with Erin Green and Paul Southwick of The Religious Exemption Accountability Project (https://www.thereap.org/) . CW: this conversation includes discussion of sexual and gender discrimination and other forms of abuse. We talk about how LGBTQ+ students are treated by college administrations, how LGBTQ+…

This week I welcome R. Scott Okamato back to the show to discuss his book Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781957687131) . We talk about his life as a professor at an evangelical college, the classroom experience, pushing back against Whiteness as an…

In this short episode, I talk about some of the books I'm reading right now. I wrote about them earlier this week for Post-Ev Post (https://www.postevangelicalpost.com/p/what-im-reading-may-2023) . The books discussed: Asian American Apostate by R. Scott Okamoto. Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781957687131) | Amazon (https://amzn.to/3OefFeO) The Flowering Wand by Sophie Strand Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781644115961)…

In this episode, I catch up with Holly Laurent from MEGA, the satirical improv show about a fictional megachurch. We last spoke in 2019, and a lot has changed since then. We talk about improv, comedy & satire, and the upcoming MEGA spinoff, The Rise and Fall of Twin Hills.…

New interviews are recorded and being planned, but not ready to be published. Various other commitments in life have taken precedent. In lieu of an interview, I'm publishing an audio version of an essay I wrote called "On Public & Private Griefs (https://www.postevangelicalpost.com/p/on-public-and-private-griefs) " last fall on The Post-Evangelical Post…

In this episode, I interview Gloria Beth Amodeo, author of the memoir God's Ex-Girlfriend: A Memoir about Loving and Leaving the Evangelical Jesus (https://bookshop.org/a/11130/9781632461476) . We talk about her college-age conversion to evangelicalism through Cru, how purity culture and gender norms are enforced, and much more in this wide-ranging conversation.…