Episode 82: Linda Kay Klein - Breaking Free From Purity Culture

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Having grown up being told her body was bad, Linda Kay Klein was on a mission to hear from women about their own experiences with Purity Culture. In this episode we talk about what the Bible has to say about sexual purity and maybe more importantly, what it doesn’t. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God-ordained podcast on the internet.
0:05.3	Serious talk about the sacred book, I'm Pete Ends.
0:08.2	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:11.2	Everybody, welcome to this episode of the Bible for Normal People.
0:14.0	And our topic today is,
0:15.6	breaking free from the purity culture and our guest is Linda Kay Klein.
0:21.6	Yes, she is the founder of Break Free Together,
0:24.4	which is an organization she started out of her own experience.
0:28.0	And out of a book she's written called Pure Inside the Evangelical Movement
0:32.7	that shamed a generation of young women and how I broke free.
0:36.6	And this was a really fun conversation.
0:39.4	Yeah, I don't know.
0:40.4	I don't know, funds are the right word.
0:41.2	It was, it was very informative and enjoyable to talk with Linda.
0:46.0	I would put it that way.
0:47.0	It wasn't enjoyable.
0:48.3	However, there were times when I was cringed.
0:51.4	Probably the most, more than I think I was the most enraged.
0:54.8	You look very upset to me.
0:55.8	Yeah.
0:56.6	I was most enraged at this episode than anyone we've done for some,
1:00.3	probably because her story resonates so much with me
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