We’ve all heard the trope of the preacher’s daughter, but how well does it hold up to real life? This episode discusses the how purity culture sets problematic expectations for people beyond the reach of the evangelical tradition that created it.

Ep. 103 Kool-Aid of the Masses

When you grow up with both of your parents as clergy, you learn that church doesn’t just happen on Sundays. Your home is the church. But people experience church in different ways- good, best-intentioned, bad, even very bad. Daughter of an Episcopal priest and a Lutheran pastor, host Beckah Selnick is breaking down what it means to encounter and be held accountable to other people’s very strong and very specific ideas about God, organized religion, faith, and the like. The church shows up in the world, for better or worse, and so do her kids.