AFTER PURITY: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America | Sara Moslener
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Eric Skwarczynski
4.5 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Grab a copy of After Purity by Sara Moslener: https://amzn.to/48MG7WY
In After Purity, purity scholar Sara Moslener conducts a nuanced investigation of purity culture in white evangelical Christianity, revealing its profound impact on gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the United States. Moslener shares exclusive stories of participants from her research on the After Purity Project to discuss how purity culture affected women—particularly white women—who grew up in the evangelical church. These stories depict how white supremacy has a hand in constructing idealized “traditional” or “biblical” views of family, white racial identity, sexuality, gender expression, and religion, and how our physical bodies are situated within systems of power and oppression.
With a blend of history, current research, and sustained analysis, Moslener explores how white evangelicalism has become so politically powerful, why gender and sexuality are positioned at the center of debate, and how those debates aim to obscure deeper histories of white evangelical racism. She describes the full disturbing effect of the “True Love Waits” movement and how purity teachings displaced all other forms of religious education in evangelicalism. From her interviewees in the After Purity Project, she shares stories of oppressive personal piety, sexual repression, disembodiment, self-hatred, mandatory hetero-normativity, and the many layers of obligation and shame in sexuality before reaching adulthood and navigating their way out of the church. Moslener also describes her own story of being a teen advocate for purity culture to becoming a researcher, scholar, and advocate for people harmed by purity.
After Purity provides a window into the world of white evangelicalism and how its leaders and political allies have manufactured socio-sexual panic to justify the elimination of sexual and religious diversity that thrive in a flourishing democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Voice podcast. Sorry, the camera's shaking. My wife's |
| 0:03.6 | laughing at me because I'm dressed like this, but that's because I'm interviewing Sarah Mosliner. |
| 0:08.5 | She is a religion professor and a scholar who goes by the handle, Hot Takes on Hot Dogs. |
| 0:15.4 | And so because I share an affinity for hot dogs, I thought I needed to dress up in uniform for this conversation. |
| 0:21.8 | I meant to drop this discussion about her new book After Purity a couple of days ago, |
| 0:26.0 | but I was filming a top secret project in a different state. But I'm back now, and we're here |
| 0:31.2 | to discuss her new book After Purity, which is an investigation into purity culture within |
| 0:36.5 | white evangelicalism and the impact that has on gender, sexuality, and race within America. |
| 0:42.5 | It's a really great conversation, and I'm sure you're going to enjoy it. |
| 0:45.1 | Thanks for watching. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. Ain't nobody safe Ain't nobody safe Ain't nobody safe Oh All right, Sarah, thank you so much for joining me on the show. |
| 1:23.1 | We were talking a little bit a second ago, and I said, I came in uniform for you because your handle is hot takes on hot dogs. |
| 1:33.6 | And yeah, and then you started dropping all this hot dog lower, and I felt like I needed to hit record and start right. |
| 1:39.4 | Well, and I love, this is my first time starting a podcast about hot dogs. |
| 1:47.0 | And I have no idea what it has to do with my writing and research, but it's just been there from the beginning. |
| 1:55.6 | So I've always loved hot dogs. |
| 1:58.9 | My passion for hot dogs sort of reached a height where I needed to do |
| 2:03.8 | something about it when I saw a PBS documentary called It's a Hot Dog program. It's just a guy from |
| 2:11.0 | Pittsburgh, which is where I'm from, traveled the country, eating hot dogs at different places. |
| 2:17.5 | And many of those places being shaped like hot dogs. |
| 2:21.1 | So there's something about it. |
| 2:23.0 | And I just, |
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