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All Episodes

Sunday School Dropouts — 97 episodes

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Title
1

Complexity of Death and Life

2

Wrapping Up Purity Culture

3

Holy Disobedience with Melissa Duge Spiers

4

Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby! (Re-air)

5

Transitioning out of Purity Culture (Re-Release)

6

The Manosphere and the Fundamentalism Pipeline

7

The Secret Psychology of Mormon Wives: Marriage, Conflict, and the Taylor & Dakota Dynamic

8

The Secret Psychology of Mormon Wives: Identity, Religion, and Influencer Culture

9

Sex and Porn Addiction: are these real things?

10

How Deconstructing POWER Healed My Marriage

11

When the Body Keeps the Faith: Purity Culture and Chronic Pain

12

Purity Test, Perfectionism, and Power in Relationships

13

The Long Reach of Purity Culture: Sex, Gender, and the Body

14

Untangling Mormon Sexual Shame

15

Purity Culture in the LDS Church

16

Purity Culture & Body Shaming

17

The Unique Impacts of Purity Culture on Men w/ Brad Onishi (re-release)

18

Reclaiming Faith as a Queer Person

19

Neurodivergence and Purity Culture

20

Purity Culture, Diet Culture, and Body Image

21

How Patriarchy & Purity Culture Shape Men

22

From Purity Culture to Pleasure Preacher w/ Lauren Elise Rogers

23

How do you Celebrate Christmas if you Don’t Believe in Santa (or Jesus)? (Re-Release)

24

Religious Trauma and the Holidays (Re-Release)

25

Non-Religious Purity Culture

26

Men and Purity Culture

27

Exploring Your Body for Healing

28

Rebellious Healing: Using Yoga and Breathwork to Heal from Purity Culture

29

Purity Culture in the Catholic Church

30

Patriarchy and Purity Culture

31

Purity Culture and Intimate Partner Violence

32

Purity Culture to Domestic Violence Pipeline

33

A Thousand Tiny Papercuts: Purity Culture and Spiritual Abuse

34

Chewed Up Bubblegum - Welcome to Season 3 of Sunday School Dropouts!

35

Wrapping up Season 2!

36

(Re-Release) Purity Culture Poster Child to Pastor to Black Sheep w/ Josh Harris

37

Spiritual Abuse + Adverse Religious Experiences

38

Spiritual Meritocracy

39

If You're Poor, You Deserve It w/ Jo Luehmann

40

The Radicalization of American Boyhood with Rev. Angela Denker

41

Giving Up God with Sarah Henn Hayward

42

It’s Time to Talk about Men Healing from Purity Culture (re-release)

43

The Impact of Purity Culture on Women (re-release)

44

Fundamentalism…it just really f**ks you up with Andrew Pledger

45

Going Broke for God

46

The Perfect Body for God with Zach Anderson

47

Choosing Relationship over Doctrine RE-RELEASE

48

Sex Education After Sunday School

49

Leaving the Orthodox Community w/ Rikki Herbst

50

God’s Plan for your Genitals w/ Dr. Eric Sprankle

51

The Glory Whole with Melissa Duge Spiers

52

Children obey your parents unto the Lord

53

Hurt and Healed by the Church

54

Understanding Spiritual Trauma w/Hillary McBride

55

The Frozen Chosen: Growing up Church of Christ with Jessica Hyne

56

How do you Celebrate Christmas if you Don’t Believe in Santa (or Jesus)?

57

Your Family, Religious Trauma, and the Holidays

58

Leaving the Fold with RC Curtwright

59

God Made Me Gay (an interview with Mike Maeshiro)

60

Deconstruction vs. Deconversion vs. Dechurched with Phil Drysdale

61

Rift: A Conversation with Cait West

62

Taking Care of Yourself on Election Day

63

Project 2025 gets an “F”

64

Disciples of White Jesus

65

Using Fear and Trauma for Political Gain

66

The Marriage of Religion and Politics w/ Brad Onishi

67

Star-Spangled Jesus

68

Healing Religious Trauma through the Nervous System

69

We’re Back Baby! Welcome to Season 2 of Sunday School Dropouts!

70

The Ark Encounter w/ April Ajoy and Beecher Reuning

71

The Abuser’s Playbook (aka the Story of Job)

72

Vacation Bible School featuring the Apostle Paul, the OG Grifter

73

Wrapping Up Season One!

74

Purity Culture Poster Child to Pastor to Black Sheep w/ Josh Harris

75

How to Heal when You’re the Victim and Perpetrator

76

Choosing Relationship over Doctrine

77

…when you don’t get what you’re promised from purity culture…

78

Growing Up as a Woman in Purity Culture

79

The Impact of Purity Culture on Women

80

Growing Up Male in Purity Culture

81

It’s Time to Talk about Men Healing from Purity Culture

82

Holiday Q&A Part Two with Cindy Wang Brandt

83

Inside a Somatic Experiencing Session

84

Holiday Q&A Part One with Matthias Roberts

85

Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby!

86

Purity Culture 101

87

Becoming a Better Body Together

88

Your Body is a Revolution

89

Transitioning out of Purity Culture

90

Religious Trauma for Queer Folks

91

Trauma Bonding, Bypassing, Narcissism, and Gaslighting–what do they actually mean?

92

Therapy vs. Coaching vs. Psychiatry

93

Deconstruction vs. Deconversion vs. Dechurched

94

Spiritual Abuse + Adverse Religious Experiences

95

What is the Nervous System (and how does it impact religious trauma)?

96

What is Religious Trauma?

97

Welcome to Sunday School Dropouts!