Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to spiritual, religious, and sexual abuse. Please proceed with caution. What do we do when a spiritual hero is accused of abusive practices? Jess and Devi were both impacted by Soul Survivor founder, the Rev Canon Mike Pilavachi, and in this raw and real episode, they process the recent […]
Anna McGahan is an Australian actress and storyteller who found God in the most radical of ways. Baptised into the Pentecostal tradition, she gave up everything to follow Jesus only to find that life in Pentecostalism wasn’t quite what it seemed. In this episode we discuss: Partner with us to hear The Jess & Devi […]
The evangelical message for girls was all about virginity, naivete, and silence, and millenial women are paying the price for it. “She Deserves Better” gets into what went wrong but also gives us a playbook for how to do better. We talk about: Partner with us to hear Jess and Devi’s trip to a sex […]
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133: Sex Toys for (Christian) Dummies
We’re mixing faith and friskiness and spilling divine secrets on tasteful toys. Get ready to bless your bedside drawer with a touch of sex-educator-approved delights. Dr. Celeste Holbrook is back with the the quality sex education we need after purity culture life. Partner with us to hear our thoughts on the Barbie movie, plus you’ll […]
Purity Culture graduates left the movement with our feet stuck to chewed up gum, our fingers locked into purity rings, and our hearts (supposedly) irreparably broken. But these were images and metaphors given to us by an evangelicalism broken by its own damaged stories, images, and metaphors. This episode gets into what went wrong, and […]
While “Sound of Freedom” rakes in the profits in the US box office, there are still children in exploitative circumstances. Are search and rescue missions the most effective way of rehabilitating them? We bring you a Christian anti-trafficking expert who has seen the harmful impacts of well-intentioned evangelicals and knows that there’s a better way […]