This week in the Book Club, Kieryn and Eve chat with  Sarah McCammon about her upcoming book (March 19) the Exvangelicals! We talk about gatekeeping knowledge, rampant anti-intellectualism, and how changing your religious beliefs change your relationships. You can take  the church kid out of the church but you can’t completely take the  church out of the kid.

Follow Sarah:
https://substack.com/@sarahmccammon
https://www.instagram.com/sarahmccammon_journalist/

Buy the book!

static.macmillan.com/static/smp/the-exvangelicals/

Kieryn and Eve sit down with Sarah Stankorb to talk about her book, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning. Covering the origins of the #ChurchToo movement (featuring some friends of the pod!) and how to approach telling stories involving religious trauma in a way that is healing.

**notes**

Buy The book (or a VPN sub then the book if  you’re in DE)

https://bookshop.org/p/books/disobedient-women-how-a-small-group-of-faithful-women-exposed-abuse-brought-down-powerful-pastors-and-ignited-an-evangelical-reckoning-sarah-stankorb/19462415

Sarah’s Website:

http://sarahstankorb.com/

In the third part of the deep dive into Parental Rights Extremism, Kieryn and Eve connect the organizational and funding dots between the orgs working on limiting children’s education today to the organizations that started it all in the 1970s.

Show Notes:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/05/18/a-disciplined-charging-army

https://california.parentsrightsineducation.com/

https://www.bloomberg.com/bedrock-usa

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/what-bridget-ziegler-s-agenda-means-for-lgbtq-youth

See Kieryn’s Map in slack!

Sometimes episodes write themselves and we have The Gospel Coalition to thank for this gem. If you’re part of our Slack community you know what’s coming, what you don’t know is that now we have tshirts (and mugs).

Swag:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/40377534-jesus-is-an-eggplant?store_id=862793

Further Reading:

https://waterbrookmultnomah.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Beautiful-Union-Preview.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20230301170931/https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/sex-wont-save-you/

Eve and Kieryn chat with friend of the pod Anna Olson about the missionary and linguistic work of Wycliffe — one of the biggest bible translation/missionary organizations — what they do, their influence on evangelism, and lack of transparency.

Anna’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charis_channah/

Show Notes:

https://trinityfi.org/investigations/just-how-broken-is-the-bible-translation-industry/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kaipetainen/2013/03/06/the-big-business-of-wycliffe-bible-translation-and-why-they-might-lose-money/

Book about how being a bible translator lead to leaving the faith – https://bookshop.org/p/books/don-t-sleep-there-are-snakes-life-and-language-in-the-amazonian-jungle-daniel-l-everett/17860922?ean=9780307386120