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Pure to Pieces
by Morgan McGill
Hi, I'm Morgan and I'm an artist. I'm also recovering from fundamentalist christianity. I will be sitting down with other artists, recovering christians, activists, psychologists, doctors, & friends to explore what we have been taught, how our identities have shifted, and how we will move forward. In year 1, we will hear personal stories about purity culture's effect. In year 2, I will spotlight artists who are answering their own personal, critical questions. I will, in every way possible, open my imagination to the task of staying curious. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morgan-mcgill/support
Episodes
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Jocelyn Lee
Jocelyn Lee photographs mature women, calling them back into relevance in a society that has deemed them invisible. She photographs to explore what it means to be alive and how we all make sense of the world. Her work has been reviewed by publications like the Boston Globe, the New York Times…
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Summer Brooks
Summer Brooks is a recent grad from McKendree University, where she completed her senior exhibition, "Black Magic." Brooks is an awardee of NCECA's Multicultural Fellowship and her work won "Best in Undergraduate" at Good Shepherd Arts Center. Summer talks to Morgan about Black hair and its...
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Hannah McBroom
Hannah McBroom is an artist who explores themes of transgender identity, materiality, and the body. She graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with an emphasis in Painting and received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas in…
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Kaviya Ravi
Kaviya Ravi is an Indian born artist who is drawn to all things colorful. Her whimsical work is inspired by the world around her and is meant to add cheer and happiness to it. Her motto is, "life is too important to be taken setiously." Kaviya describes her history with color and the different...
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Julie Longest
For the one year anniversary of the podcast, Julie Longest has a mother-daughter conversation with Morgan. Julie talks about the messiness of family, nuances of modesty, and how she left evangelicalism while her family was still there. She explains what it was like deciding on her own truth and...
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Tessi Muskrat Rickabaugh
Tessi is a student researcher on purity culture. She explains how important education and experience are in leading to healthy relationships. She talks about her interest in trauma at the intersection of religion and sexuality and how she is gentle with who she used to be and who she is now....
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Dr. Amra Sabic El-Rayess
Dr. Amra Sabic El-Rayess explains what it was like growing up in Bosnia & Herzegovina during the Bosnian Genocide. She talks about the courses she offers at Columbia University that examine social transformation and moral resilience. Her online program, "Reimagine Resilience," teaches educators…
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ARTIST TALK: Portia Munson
Portia talks to Morgan about gathering objects for her intriguing installations and how the idea started on residency at Fine Arts Work Center. Portia explains how ideals and expectations of women have changed from her viewpoint over her lifetime and how interconnected the environment is with...
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o[liv]ia
Liv tells their story of growing up with scoliosis and a lot of faith and the things that helped them believe they could trust their body once they listened to it. As a recent MA graduate, Liv studies and researches the complex nuances in christian and non christian culture and how most things...
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Bradley Onishi
Bradley tells Morgan about his story of growing up evangelical, becoming a pastor, and then realizing that wasn't for him when he got away from home in his travels. The two talk about the forming of new ethics when you no longer rely on the Bible to inform those ethics and the writing of…
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ARTIST TALK: Marcella Colavecchio
Marcella talks to Morgan about her new body of paintings using alter-egos to talk about anatomy and psychology. The two talk about their love for Italy and an old tradition using cellophane. Marcella is based in Austin, TX and is looking for new models all the time! Check her work out...
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ARTIST TALK: Emilia Cruz
Emilia talks to Morgan in detail about some of her paintings and how she hopes to continue to inspire young girls through her art. Emilia explains how closely tied her mental health is to her artistic processes. She recounts what it was like growing up Catholic and gives advice to emerging…
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Melissa Payne
Melissa is a Psychotherapist with a focus on spirituality. Melissa and Morgan talk about the positive and negative affects of therapists telling clients what kinds of safe spaces they provide. Melissa talks about poetry as an art form she loves and how she finds beauty in the world. She speaks to...
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Andreya Jones
Andreya is a sex therapist writing a curriculum for women recovering from purity culture. Andreya tells Morgan about growing up in a missionary family in Papa New Guinea and why her story led her to pursue sex therapy. She talks about how to educate young kids on consent and body language and how...
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Jon Martin
Jon tells Morgan about growing up going to different churches in the south and how he now lives in California as a writer. Jon explains how he can fully express himself in his writing and the two talk about the show "Sex Education." Follow Jon and his writing @jonlmartin on instagram.
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ARTIST TALK: Vaidehi Kinkhabwala
Vaidehi tells Morgan about art as her life source while suffering an autoimmune disorder. Vaidehi explains the difference in patriarchy in India vs. the U.S. and how she transitioned into the New York lifestyle 13 years ago. She is currently working on an NFT project curated by Paris Hilton and...
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Elissa Branum
Elissa is getting her PhD in researching purity culture- including how it shows up in handbooks of universities throughout the U.S. Elissa tells Morgan about getting fired for teaching different pronouns for god and what life has been like since getting divorced. Both Elissa and Morgan talk about...
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ARTIST TALK: Kathleen Garcia
Kathy talks to Morgan about knowing she was bisexual when she was 5 years old and how art has been a constant in her life since a young age. She explains how this led her to become an art therapist and collaborate with artists today. Kathy has an art show up at Mellwood Art Center in Louisville…
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Sara Moslener
Sara talks about writing her second book and her focus on how white supremacy perpetuates purity culture and vice versa. Sara tells Morgan about the time in her life when her thinking changed and she eventually decided to go to seminary. She talks about the art of gardening and explains "blackout...
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ARTIST TALK: Reena Acryzo
Reena tells Morgan about being a 16 year old today and what health class is like at school. She speaks wisely about her knowledge of different sexual orientations and the construction of gender. Reena talks about the art she is working on right now and the vocabulary we use when talking about...
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Jenny McGrath
Jenny is a therapist who tells Morgan about being a missionary when she was younger and what she thinks about that now. She talks about having conflict with people in healthy ways and how she left church 5 years ago. Get in touch with Jenny at indwellcounseling.com or @indwell_movement on instagram.
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Victoria Houser
Victoria tells Morgan about things she is working on in the academic world to stand up against purity culture. She explains how her thinking shifted from an evangelical setting to a missionary lifestyle to studying eugenics. Victoria and Morgan talk about visiting the gynecologist and why knowing...
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Megan
Megan talks to Morgan about going to an all-girls Catholic school, her thoughts on prayer, and using dance as a way to heal. They both discuss pronouns for god and the lack of sex ed they experienced growing up.
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ARTIST TALK: Blanche Froelich
Blanche talks about thinking existentially and how that put her on a path of art making. She explains the death of a parent as both a driving force and hindrance to creating and how the pandemic has affected her creatively. Blanche and Morgan talk about the culture of competition between artists...
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah talks with Morgan about growing up "doing the things Christian Southern Baptist women should do" and how she came to the renaissance of herself by asking questions and looking for beauty in the world. Morgan and Sarah recount the lack of sex ed they had in highschool and at the end, discuss...
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Kathryn House
Kathryn talks to Morgan about her recent dissertation on purity culture, the harm of white evangelical purity culture in so many sectors of society, and analytical ways to approach the subject. Kathryn and Morgan talk about art and the positive influence it's had on their lives while beginning to...
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ARTIST TALK: Eleanor Cowell
Eleanor talks about mental health and the art therapy club she started. She tells Morgan about different ways artists are bartering today and what kind of impact her Pride t-shirts have made. Eleanor started New Grooves Gallery and talks about the artists involved. Visit Eleanor's website at...
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Perrin Bailey
Perrin talks to Morgan about applying for divinity school while being openly queer. The two talk about boundaries and how purity culture does more harm than good. They end with talking about curiosity and making new rules for yourself.
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Jennifer Neyhart
Jennifer tells Morgan about how her thinking changed from not being allowed to think sexual thoughts as a girl to coming out as a gay woman. She talks about the struggle with her family's acceptance and how she changed seminaries till she found one that would accept her as she is.
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ARTIST TALK: Betsy Oh
Betsy talks to Morgan about the business side of art, what she has learned from a younger generation, and how supporting one another as artists is so important. See her work at betsyohart.com or @betsyohart on instagram.
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Monique Moultrie
Monique explains the difference between growing up in black purity culture vs. white purity culture and the different expectations of women in each group. Monique shares with Morgan how she started to think for herself in college and how that motivated her to keep studying African American...
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McKenzie Ballard
McKenzie talks to Morgan about rules on drinking and curfew at her Methodist College, going by feelings vs. facts, and how her belief systems continue to change as her frontal lobe develops. McKenzie explains why mental health needs to be discussed in church and Morgan suggests that pastors…
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ARTIST TALK: Kipp Kobayashi
Kipp talks to Morgan about the meanings behind his public art installations in relation to traces of human activity. Kipp explains his own deconstruction process of challenging preconceived notions of who we are and what we do. As someone who doesn't have much experience with explicit purity...
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Brian Murphy
Brian talks to Morgan about growing up as a queer man in evangelical Christianity. He tells the story of coming out to his parents and how his thinking has shifted when it comes to religion. Brian talks about his walk with masculinity and how he now coaches queer men to be their healthiest…
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Caroline Miller
Caroline tells Morgan about growing up in an all girl's Catholic school. She explains how comprehensive sex education can help students. Caroline uses her knowledge of the law to explain how purity culture has filtered down through the system for a long time. Morgan and Caroline discuss ways laws...
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ARTIST TALK: Kat Knutsen
Kat talks to Morgan about the pros and cons of getting an Art degree after talking about growing up in the Pentecostal church. Kat is a multimedia artist who was one of the 148 selected artists worldwide to work on the 2018 Oscar Nominated film "Loving Vincent." She talks about being told to…
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Eréndira Jiménez
Eréndira Jiménez talks to Morgan about her business, "Spirit School," that functions as a resource for decolonization and spiritual guidance. She talks about her journey through Christianity, her divorce, and coming out as bi-sexual. To access her resources, go to https://www.erendirajimenez.com
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Sam
Sam talks to Morgan about growing up in rural Kentucky and the repercussions of teaching boys not to be emotional. He explains the difficulties of finding porn at a young age and the shame he felt of not being able to talk about sex. He shares stories about the men he met while incarcerated and…
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ARTIST TALK: Alexandra Rubinstein
Alexandra explains BV to Morgan and talks about the rage that inspires her art and recants her story of growing up in Russia and then moving to the U.S. She now lives in New York, working as a visual artist. You can check out her work at alaexandrarubenstein.com
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Emily Joy Allison
Emily, author of #Churchtoo, talks to Morgan about the difference between sexual assault in the culture at large vs. assault that happens in church contexts. She talks about epistemological pathways in our brains and how we learn and can change. #churchtoo #purityculture #puretopieces
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Tina Schermer Sellers
Tina talks to Morgan about being a sex therapist and sex educator. She explains how U.S. culture has evolved politically in relation to the Christian church. Her book, "Sex, God, and the Conservative Church," explains the integration of spirituality and sexuality. Her new book is called…
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ARTIST TALK: Tiffany Cole
Tiffany talks with Morgan about growing up in California and how her perspective on mental health and body image has changed over time. Tiffany describes modeling and how it gave her a more positive outlook on her body. She recounts the story of when she drew her first sketch and how she combines...
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Dani Fankhauser
Dani talks about growing up in Calvary Chapel, communion in the form of wine on the beach, her new fiction story "Doomsday," and how singing can change and lift our mood. Find her book at: https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/doomsday
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Katherine Manning
Katherine and Morgan talk about the Christian school they went to from elementary through highschool together. Katherine describes the lack of identity she felt when she was so immersed in church and how meeting people different from her has helped her see new perspectives. Connect with Katherine...
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ARTIST TALK: Abi Joy Samuel
ARTIST TALK! Abi talks to me all the way from England about how she is the real life Flea Bag. She explains living in and using an ex-brothel for an art exhibition, having a moment with Jesus even though she's Jewish, and how foster care influences her art to this day. Look up Abi's work at...
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Shannon TL Kearns
Shannon TL Kearns is a transgender ordained priest, playwright, theologian, artistic director, and co-host of the podcast Queer Theology. Shannon talks about looking at Christianity through a queer lens and why he has stayed with the faith for so long. Learn more about his podcast, "Queer…
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Sarah Lewis
If you've ever wanted to hear about lesbian writers and being in a cult in the same conversation, this episode is for you!
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Anthony Bowman
Anthony helps me dissect church teachings on masturbation, pornography, patriarchy, and teaches me about afantasia.
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Matthias Roberts
Matthias is a psychotherapist who talks about sexual ethics and the paradoxes we believe while moving through the world in color and not just black and white. His book, "Beyond Shame," is available now as well as his podcast, "Queerology," and masterclass with Linda Kay Klein on his website:...
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Carrie Cole
Carrie and Morgan talk about growing up in independent Christian School together, reuniting during college, how their deconstruction process has looked, and exploring what their sexualities mean to them.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hi, I'm Morgan and I'm an artist. I'm also recovering from fundamentalist christianity. I will be sitting down with other artists, recovering christians, activists, psychologists, doctors, & friends to explore what we have been taught, how our identities have shifted, and how we will move forward. In year 1, we will hear personal stories about purity culture's effect. In year 2, I will spotlight artists who are answering their own personal, critical questions. I will, in every way possible, open my imagination to the task of staying curious. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morgan-mcgill/support
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