Clergy and church life are a mainstay in storytelling. Many a television show has tried to accurately represent the church, but to what success? On this episode, I discuss how story structure and representation matter even in comedy.

Ep. 107 The Math is Easy

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.