Ep. 60 - Dianna E. Anderson, Purity Culture Critic

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dianna E. Anderson grew up in South Dakota, and after stints as an English teacher in Japan and a radio producer in Chicago, she’s turned her focus to writing. Her first book, out now, is called Damaged Goods: New Perspectives on Christian Purity and it’s all about the intersection of the church and sexuality. We spoke with Dianna about why sex is often seen as shameful in parts of Christianity, what conversations the broader evangelical church is having about sex, and whether the church can ever become sex-positive. Lots of sex. #Sex Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	Diana E. Anderson grew up in South Dakota and after Stintz as an English
0:21.4	teacher in Japan and a radio producer in Chicago,
0:23.8	she's turned her focus to writing.
0:25.5	Her first book, Out Now, is called Damaged Goods, New Prospectives on Christian
0:29.5	Pirity, and it's all about the intersection of the church and sexuality.
0:33.0	Diana, thank you so much for joining us tonight.
0:35.0	Thanks for having me.
0:37.0	So just to be clear, you are still an evangelical Christian, right,
0:41.0	who's talking about the problem with purity culture?
0:44.0	I don't consider myself evangelical anymore, but I definitely am still a Christian.
0:48.0	I think that's interesting.
0:50.0	At what point did you kind of shift away, like change what you called yourself or identified as?
0:56.3	Probably during grad school, I went to graduate school at Baylor University, which is an
1:00.8	evangelical Christian university down Texas.
1:04.0	It's one of the largest in the United States.
1:07.5	And it was actually during that time,
1:09.4	it was 2008 to 2010.
1:11.3	So Obama got elected and things were shifting in the US and I just sort of
1:16.8	went I don't think I really identify with the sort of Republican conservative evangelical
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