Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Tinbeat Armias. Today, a book about a major life pivot.

For years, Beth Moore was a successful evangelist, the author of numerous best-selling books

about her faith who spoke to sold-out crowds. She was also a highly visible member of the

Southern Baptist Convention. But then,

in 2016, everything changed with the release of the now infamous Access Hollywood Trump tape.

That tape turned everything in her life upside down. That's because it forced her to confront

her past abuse, and her church's response, or the lack of one, infuriated her.

She describes the incident and all that followed as being like a deaf.

Moore writes about it in her new book, All My Notted Up Life, which she discusses with NPR's Aisha Rosco. And I'll mention here that this

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I have to say, I read portraits of devotion. See, I didn't know if you'd have any familiarity, really.

I found it in Walmart, started reading it. I was like, now who wrote this?

You know, I knew we would connect as women, but I didn't know if we would have faith in common.

So yes, I'm so glad to have you here.

Beth Moore was the epitome of a modern Southern Baptist and a motto for Southern Baptist women

and not just Southern Baptist women, evangelical women. I'm talking about selling out arenas all

over the country with her women-focused

Bible study events. Then came Donald Trump in the infamous Access Hollywood tape. More spoke out

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