NPR's Sarah McCammon on Leaving the Evangelical Church

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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While covering Trump’s 2016 campaign, NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon understood the white evangelical movement behind his political rise, because she grew up in that world. McCammon left the church troubled by the misogyny, homophobia and racism she witnessed. That experience is at the center of her book “The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.” We speak to McCammon and hear from you: Have you left organized religion? Why? Guests: Sarah McCammon, National Political Correspondent, NPR; co-host, NPR Politics Podcast; author, "The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Coming up on Forum, what it's like to love and leave the white evangelical church.
1:06.7	NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up as a church kid, terrified of hell and steeped in creationism.
1:12.3	Ultimately, she left the church, and she'll tell us why and how and what she learned.
1:14.9	Her book is The Ex-Vangelicals.
1:16.3	Have you left a religion?
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1:40.5	Sarah McCammon grew up in a white evangelical world of certainty.
1:46.2	There was heaven. there was hell.
1:52.5	If you believed in Jesus, you would be saved. But even as a child, doubts entered her mind.
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