348: Exvangelicals | Understanding Who's Leaving the Church & Who's Choosing to Stay (ft. Sarah McCammon)
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Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Sarah McCammon is a National Political Correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Her work focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion policy and the intersections of politics and religion. She's also a frequent guest host for NPR news programs.
She has covered several presidential elections, including the 2016 campaign, when she reported on the rise of the Trump movement, divisions within the Republican Party over its future, and the role of religion in those debates. McCammon's reporting has documented the growing political power of the religious right culminating with the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, efforts by abortion rights advocates to push back, and the rising tide of white Christian nationalism.
She's frequently called upon to cover breaking news events and national politics. Her work has won numerous awards, among them a 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for her coverage of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, a 2023 Wilbur Award for religion reporting, a Gracie Award in 2020 for her reporting on reproductive rights, and a National Press Club Journalism Award for team coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018.
McCammon is the author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, a 2024 book that is part memoir and part journalism, about the movement of people who grew up inside the powerful evangelical subculture and ultimately left in response to its increasing politicization.
She has appeared on numerous television programs including CNN's Inside Politics, MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, PBS Newshour, and CSPAN's Washington Journal.
Prior to joining NPR in 2015, she reported for NPR Member stations in Georgia, Iowa, and Nebraska. She began her career as newspaper reporter in the Chicago area.
McCammon grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and is a graduate of Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. |
| 0:06.1 | Listener discretion is advised. My name is Eric Skrinski. As a former religious fundamentalist, |
| 0:13.0 | I'm shedding light on the dark side of the church, from the pulpit to the pews. But I'm not |
| 0:18.5 | doing it alone. Each week, I'm sitting down with survivors, |
| 0:21.8 | advocates, authors, and more to uncover the inner workings of these abusive religious groups |
| 0:27.3 | to give tactical tips on how to escape and to find out what we can do to take them down. |
| 0:34.3 | You're listening to the Bridge Boys podcast. Welcome back to the show. Today I'm sitting down |
| 0:39.8 | with Sarah McCammon, a national political correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR Politics |
| 0:45.6 | Podcast. Her work focuses on political, social, and cultural divides in America, including abortion |
| 0:51.2 | policy and the intersections of politics and religion, and she's also a frequent |
| 0:55.3 | guest host for NPR news programs. She has covered several presidential elections, including the |
| 1:00.6 | 2016 campaign, when she reported on the rise of the Trump movement, divisions within the Republican |
| 1:06.0 | Party over its future, and the role of religion in those debates. McCammon's reportings has documented |
| 1:11.9 | the growing political power of the religious right, culminating with the overturning of Roe v. Wade |
| 1:16.8 | in 2022, efforts by abortion rights advocates to push back, and the rising tide of white |
| 1:22.4 | Christian nationalism. She's frequently called upon to cover breaking news events and national |
| 1:27.2 | politics, and her work has won |
| 1:29.0 | numerous awards, among them, a 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for her coverage of the Dobbs v. Jackson |
| 1:34.7 | Women's Health Organization Decision, a 2023 Wilbur Award for Religion Reporting, a Gracie Award in 2020 |
| 1:41.2 | for Reporting on Reproductive Rights and a National Press Club |
| 1:44.6 | Journalism Award for team coverage of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting in 2018. |
| 1:49.8 | She's appeared on numerous television programs, including CNN's Inside Politics, MSNBC's |
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