After Purity
Sara MoslenerDe-mythologizing religion, sex, and American politics.
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Underwear! Under where? Under there.
I’m do not have a reputation for showing my underwear in public. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. At least four times. That I know of.
The second time I was on my way to the bus stop, cutting through Emory University School of Med...
Dad's Dead
My father was a good man. I have already met people who told me he saved their life, saved their marriage, baptized their children, officiated their weddings, and sat with the bereaved as they lost their own loved ones. He embodied the work...
Writing Religious Trauma
Spring 2026 is in the books, as we like to say. My shift from semester to summer used to be filled with apprehension. There’s always work to do, but a lack of structure can sometimes trigger my existential angst (which is ever present these...
The After Purity After Party Continues...
Recent podcast appearances now available wherever you listen to your podcasts.
With Blake Chastain at Exvangelical/The Good Books
https://www.irreverent.fm/show/exvangelical-1/the-good-books-after-purity-with-sara-moslener/
With Brad Oni...
This Is My Hammock in Winter
My backyard in winter. Two metals poles poking out of the snow.
This is my hammock in winter. Three steel poles locked into a cold, white landscape like a long-forgotten Festivus celebration, only the grievances remaining. The meaningful...
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Sara Moslener is the author of After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America coming December 2025 from Beacon Press.
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