57. Where Do We Go From Here? With Crystal Dawn
Flipping Tables
Monte Mader
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this deeply personal episode, Crystal Dawn opens up about the slow, often invisible process of religious deconstruction. Raised inside a tight-knit faith community where belief wasn't just a doctrine but the architecture of every relationship, Crystal walks us through the cracks that started as questions and widened into a chasm she could no longer pretend wasn't there.
Crystal Dawn is a writer and content creator shedding light on the patriarchal systems of harm within evangelical culture. Her experiences growing up a pastor’s daughter, as well as her own deconstruction journey, give her a unique lens… one she blends with research and history to give language to what many people experience in coming out of those spaces. She is currently at work on her first book, forthcoming in 2027.
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| 0:30.6 | You've probably seen some of her videos on Instagram. |
| 0:33.3 | A really adorable lady walks in front of the camera with her cup of tea and says, |
| 0:36.9 | oh, hey, did you know? |
| 0:39.1 | And then gives you a bunch of education on things. Maybe you didn't know about organized religion, |
| 0:43.3 | how we got the Bible, Christian nationalism, and she's here to talk with us today. |
| 0:47.1 | Crystal Dawn is a writer and content creator shedding light on the patriarchal systems of harm within evangelical culture. |
| 0:53.4 | Her experience growing up as a pastor's |
| 0:55.3 | daughter, as well as her own deconstruction journey, give her a unique lens, one that she blends with |
| 1:00.2 | research and history to give language to many people experience in coming out of those spaces, |
| 1:05.6 | what many people are experiencing right now. She is currently at work on her first book that will be |
| 1:10.7 | coming out in 2027. So very excited to have her here. This is currently at work on her first book that will be coming out in |
| 1:11.2 | 2027. So very excited to have her here. This is going to be a day for those of you that grew up |
| 1:16.6 | in these moments. We're going to sit in some nostalgia. We're going to talk about the left behind |
| 1:21.1 | series and Veggie Tales and where we were raised and how these movements began. But also what |
| 1:25.2 | it looks like is a real person to challenge everything that |
| 1:28.0 | you've ever believed, everything that's ever defined you, and to come out on the other side, |
| 1:32.7 | a better, happier, more whole, more fulfilled person. Crystal Dawn today with me on flipping |
| 1:38.3 | tables. |
| 1:47.3 | Hi, Crystal. Welcome to flipping tables. Thank you for coming. |
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