Sexvangelicals

Episode #43: Partnership Building: How to Navigate Deconstruction as a Couple When One Person Starts the Deconstruction Process Earlier, with Nicki and Stephen Pappas

Oct 23, 2023

We did it! We just released our 100th episode!

And we could not have a more fitting episode than with Nicki (@broadeningthenarrative) and Stephen Pappas. Nicki and Stephen answer the question:

What happens when one person in a partnership begins the deconstruction process before the other partner?

This can be a really...

Episode #42: Partnership Building: How Evangelical Communities Limit Your Dreams, with Nicki and Stephen Pappas

Oct 15, 2023

What did you want to be when you grew up?

In EMPish (Evangelical, Mormon, and Pentecostal) settings, growing up is commonly centered around finding your soulmate, getting married, having kids, and enhancing the church community.

Or, as Julia says, “A person's dreams must serve the greater purpose of...

Episode #41: How Purity Culture Informed the 90s and 00s, with Teddi and Nick from Oh God I Forgot About That

Oct 2, 2023

Purity Culture isn’t just a collection of pithy quotes and misappropriation of Scripture about bodies and relationships.

It’s a creation of a myriad of businesses, media, and political systems that work together to showcase and reinforce the existence of particular types of relationships.

We’ve learned that...