This is PEP Talk, my short-form show for paid subscribers—today this episode goes to my whole list. On this episode I talk about my difficulty reconnecting online after long absences, of which I’ve had a few in the past couple of years. It’s a follow-up of sorts to the most popular post on this page: You can listen to the episode or read through the transcript. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment. Leave a comment The Post-Evangelical Post is a reader-supported publication. 25% of net proceeds are donated. Subscribe below: Share The Post-Evangelical Post ..read more

This is a re-release of my October 2022 interview with author Becca Andrews about her book No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right. Share I was reminded of the importance of this book and others like it after reading a Wired article titled "‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills’: American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions." These are the lengths people who need reproductive care must go to in a post-Roe world. Becca's book details the stories of people in need of reproductive care and their allies, both before Roe and in places ..read more

Today I'm publishing conversation with , NPR political correspondent and author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church. We talk about her personal experiences within white evangelicalism as well as how that informed her role as a journalist covering the 2015-2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump, as well as how media coverage of religion & social life has changed since then. You can purchase her book, and support this show, by purchasing it from The Post-Evangelical Post's Bookshop.org page here. Exvangelical is a production of The Post-Evan ..read more

This is an entry in The Good Books, Post-Ev Post’s book-centric vertical. From the classic Twilight Zone episode: “Time Enough at Last” I have a Notion database that is now woefully out of date where I once tried to track my reading. The header image for that database was this frame from the classic Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last,” where the main character awakens to a world that has ended, and he is finally alone with a pile of books. Because it’s The Twilight Zone, at the very end he breaks his glasses and can never read them. Our world ends anew every day, but there is still t ..read more

Hi, everyone - in this episode I talk about Dune. Let me know your thoughts in the comments! Leave a comment And let’s try out the DM function - paid subscribers should be able to send me a message. Try it out below: Read more ..read more

In this episode, I talk about the Society for American Civic Renewal, which was reported on by Khaya Himmelman at TPM. Leave a comment Send me a DM! Read more ..read more

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This week I'm joined by from . We discuss Mormonism & evangelicalism, his experiences in right-wing media, and the 2024 election. It's a broad-reaching conversation that I hope you enjoy. Follow Matthew's work at Flux, including the podcasts Theory of Change, Doomscroll, and So This Just Happened. Show Notes/Links: I appeared on Theory of Change last October, check it out here. We discuss the findings from this CNN article re: the SC GOP primaries and Matthew's piece about authoritarianism. Exvangelical is a production of The Post-Evangelical Post, LLC. Support my work with a paid subscri ..read more

In this episode, I dust off the cobwebs of PEP Talk, talk about the forthcoming podcast The Good Books, comment on my latest article from last week, and opine about the framing of Peter Wehner’s latest in The Atlantic. This is for paid subscribers - if you enjoyed this, let someone else know! Share Have a comment? Leave it here! Leave a comment Read more ..read more

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, c. 1805 by William Blake. During every presidential election cycle—without fail—there is an increased interest in “how will evangelicals vote?” analysis & commentary in the mainstream media. In the past two cycles, it’s gotten easier to predict because white evangelicals themselves have become easier to predict: they’re Trump’s most loyal and dedicated base.1 Yet their established alliance and preference for Trump is something they have felt compelled to justify via high-profile op-eds. This cycle, they have embarked another media ..read more