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Sexvangelicals

Jeremiah Gibson and Julia Postema

Sexvangelicals is a podcast about the sex education the church didn"t want you to have, hosted by Julia and Jeremiah, two licensed and certified sex therapists.

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Episode #64: Banned Books: A Well Trained Wife, with...

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2024/04/01

"While this story is my own memoir, the situations in this book are far from unique. With me stands a choir of invisible fundamentalist women, too silenced to tell their stories for themselves." We're honored to have Tia Levings (@tialevingswriter), author of the upcoming book A Well Trained Wife, as our podcast guest this week. Tia shares her research, wisdom, and immense bravery with us; we focus our conversations around: How the Evangelical Church is a Microcosm of a Bigger System Waiting

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Episode #63: Banned Books: The Exvangelicals, with...

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2024/03/26

There's a lot of memoirs, social media comments, and dialogue about leaving the evangelical church. However, as our guest, Sarah McCammon (@sarahmccammon_journalist) says, "you can't really understand the leaving without understanding loving and living the evangelical church." Sarah is the author of the new book The Exvangelicals. She talks with us about: The history of Christianity and politics What religion may offer The Bill Clinton Era and Purity Culture Evangelical Relationships Performing

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Episode #62: Banned Books: The Exvangelicals, with...

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2024/03/19

It's been really fascinating to watch the ways that Evangelical, Mormon, and Pentecostal (EMPish) cultures have begun to be deconstructed and discussed on a wider cultural level. While some still struggle to accurately name the direct correlation between EMPish cultures and the construction of the modern-day Republican Party, NPR national correspondent Sarah McCammon (@sarahmccammon_journalist) discusses the strategy and implementation of rigid conservative values in her new book The

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Episode #61: Banned Books, When Religion Hurts You,...

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2024/03/12

One of the most common relational processes that the deconstructing world talks about is boundaries. Evangelical circles encourage the elimination of boundaries. Sexuality is public, as Purity Culture invites people in leadership positions to make a variety of comments about people's bodies. Accountability groups and testimonials favor people who describe the most intimate parts of their stories. When making sense of these harmful systems, it's easy to go the opposite direction with boundaries;

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Episode #60: Banned Books: When Religion Hurts You,...

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2024/03/04

What is religious abuse? Dr. Laura Anderson, in her new book When Religion Hurts You, defines it as: "The improper use of religious beliefs, teachings, doctrines, and relationships against another person. This might include harassment, humiliation, mind control, psychological abuse, isolation, threats, intimidation, minimizing, denying, blaming, asserting spiritual authority, and making it difficult to leave the religious community." If you're experienced one or more of the above, our interview

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Episode #59: Banned Books: The Secret Lives of Church...

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2024/02/27

Purity Culture is largely embedded within White social and political systems intended to dominate and control bodies through a hyper-moralistic, anti-sex landscape. However, in this last week of Black History month, it's imperative that we talk about the ways that Purity Culture has impacted Black communities. To help us, we are sharing our interview with Deesha Philyaw (@deeshaphilyaw), author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, about how the values of Purity Culture have infiltrated Black

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Episode 58: Banned Books: A Brief History of How the...

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2024/02/20

Julia begins, "Unlearning the messages from the church archive is only part of the healing process. The next step is learning new ways to engage relationships and sexuality. So, together, we are going to begin creating a new library with literature that can support us in building better, more sustainable, and thriving relationships." In order to unlearn unhelpful messages, we have to understand the systems that propagated these messages. "If I had a dollar for every time a client mentioned

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Banned Books Trailer

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2024/02/19

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Episode #57: Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual...

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2024/02/13

The Roman Catholic Church, Southern Baptist Convention, and Acts 29 Churches have all had significant challenges with sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse in their systems, something that becomes even more pronounced when religious systems become intertwined with private and home schooling, sex education, and the expectations of rigid gender norms. Sarah Stankorb, author of Disobedient Women, interviews women who have been victimized within Evangelical systems. And while online spaces provided

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Banned Books Book Club Trailer

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2024/02/12

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Episode #56: Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual...

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2024/02/05

It's well documented that reporting abuse to larger systems is a daunting process. The Southern Baptist Convention is the latest organization to have been outed for the ways that it protects perpetrators of violence, especially against women and children, two categories of people whose stories are commonly dismissed in our larger society. We're thrilled to have Sarah Stankorb on our podcast. Sarah Stankorb is the author of the national best-seller Disobedient Women. (For Libsyn only) The

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Episode #55: Three Ways to Call Audibles and...

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2024/01/31

Transitions are a natural part of life. There are big transitions, such as a person leaving home or a child aging into adolescence. There are smaller transitions that happen everyday, such as leaving to go to work or switching from topic to topic in a conversation. A family system has to be adaptable enough to respond to transitions, and many relationship and family problems are rooted in challenges transitioning. In this episode, Julia and Jeremiah discuss three strategies to help you and your

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Episode #54: Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual...

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2024/01/15

“Romantic comedies and chick lit reflect messages that are prevalent in both secular culture and religious spaces. Although Christian spaces give lots of lip service to being counter cultural, they usually repackage the same message from popular culture with a different wrapping paper.” We continue our mini-series Let’s Kick Off the New Year with Spiritual Abuse, with Katherine Spearing, co-founder of Tears of Eden and author of Hartfords, a historical romantic comedy. Katherine talks with us about

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Episode #53: Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual...

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2024/01/07

Happy New Year! January is Spirtual Abuse Awareness month, and so we're kicking off the New Year with a couple of episodes with Katherine Spearing (@katherinespearing), host of the Uncertain Podcast (@uncertainpodcast) and founder of the nonprofit Tears of Eden. Katherine defines spiritual abuse as "invoking a religious text or deity as a way to maintain power and control over both individuals and communities." In this episode, we describe the multiple systems in Katherine's life that practiced

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Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual Abuse Trailer

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2024/01/07

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Episode #52: Holiday Horror Stories: How to Recover...

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2024/01/03

Happy New Year! We hope that you had a safe, peaceful, and festive holiday season with family and friends! For most of us, this week will be about transitioning out of the excitement and chaos that comes with the holiday season and into the rhythms of everyday life. That transition process can be really challenging on individuals and relationships. To help us, we invited our marketing and communications extraordinaire, Maddie, to be our first guest of 2024. Maddie talks with us about:

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Episode #51: Holiday Horror Stories: Ten Tips for...

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2023/12/28

One in six people worldwide experience infertility, according to the World Health Organization. As the holiday season focuses on the celebration of children and families, infertility creates its own holiday horror story for individuals and relationships who experience it. We're excited to have Dr. Niko Wilson, director of the Couples and Family Therapy program at William James College, join us for a special episode of Sexvangelicals. Dr. Wilson's research focuses on the qualitative experience

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Episode #50: Holiday Horror Stories: How the Holidays...

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2023/12/18

What would holiday celebrations be without women? No really. They would not exist without women. The holiday season often represents the worst part of Christian relationships, where gender roles define behavior and eliminate collaborative dialogue in the process. Julia notes, "Even Hallmark movies join the nativity story, relying on women sacrificing--either their singleness, their autonomy, their career, or all the, for the sake of the relationship." This week, we're joined by the amazing

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Episode #49: Holiday Horror Stories: How to Reclaim...

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2023/12/11

The Christmas story starts with a teenage girl, Mary, and an angel of God. Kelley Werner, co-host of the Woman Being Podcast, explains: “She's portrayed as this passive participant in her faith. There's an edification of her. "Lord, whatever you say, I will do. So be it." She's passively impregnated by an angel, and becomes this side character in the narrative of Jesus. That angle was always impressed upon us as young women: Keeping our posture very open to whatever God or men determine is

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Episode #47: Partnership Building: How To Discover...

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2023/12/11

In the initial stages of what we typically call deconstruction, folks tend to focus heavily on meeting individual needs, self-advocacy, engaging the body in different ways, and finding new personal connections. And while all of this is fantastic, much of the resources within deconstruction communities, and popular psychology for that matter, use the language of boundary setting. Just set those boundaries. And, if we're not careful, individuation comes at the expense of our most important

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