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April Ajoy (Evangelicalish) joins the lads as they return to Odyssey for three deeply disturbing episodes that dive deep into the heart of evangelical purity culture. Topics include the cringe of adolescence, the horrors of beauty pageants, and the nightmare of having puberty explained to you by John Avery Whittaker.

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April Ajoy

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Evangelicalish: Discussing the good, the bad and the ugly of the American Evangelical Church, deconstruction, faith and God’s love through it all.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

154 - Coming of Age

163 - A Model Child

192 - Modesty is the Best Policy

April Ajoy’s Performance of “America Say Jesus”

Growing Up Christian Podcast, Episode 49 “Jimmy Barclay‘s Misadventures in Odyssey w/ Actor & Activist David Griffin”

TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

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Sam Milne

This show is helping me process way more childhood trauma than I realised I had.

Ben

Oh Beauty Contests really sound eugenicsy -it's like hollistic judgement of women

Mick Wingert

Took your advice and listened to the David Griffin interview on Growing Up Christian, knowing his mental health challenges and what a sanctuary the cast and crew of AIO was for him, makes this horrendous puberty episode bitter sweet. I admire that guy so much.

Tuesdays

(out of extremely stiff competition) maybe one of the best aj interstitials i've heard yet

ABear

Wait wait wait... George is far more strict than Whit???? Whit didn't have a problem but George lost it????

P.A.L.

THAT FUCKED UP BABY IN PASSION OF THE CHRIST!!!! That thing got me kicked out of a school screening of that movie (Catholic school) cause I laughed so fucking hard at that effect.

Mister Joshua

Oh my GOD I forgot about the Passover episode!!! Someone please tell me do they cover it!? I remember the screaming...

Mara Nix 🖤💜🤍💛

While re-listening to ‘A Model Child’ and ‘Modesty is the Best Policy’ I realized that both of those episodes totally played a role in kind of curbing my dysphoria as a kid… because no matter how badly I wanted to be a girl, I did NOT want to be treated like that, and held to those standards. Really gross and really sad

M

Decades later, the guy who posited women as auditory horndogs went on to be the one evangelical who embraced WAP with open arms. "And what metaphor does she make: Macaroni in a pot. WHAT DID I TELL YOU? CASE CLOSED."

Mulloy

every Mx's battle

Faden Cross

I laughed really loud at this episode’s ad break

Nathan Woods

"As what?? A STaGeHanD???" Well fuck you too, Jimmy

By Tove!

I love how I have the most vivid memories for the audio beats of the worst episodes of this show. Listening to Dale and Melanie open the episode snapped me back to this episode in the same way Eugene describing Hell does for The Mortal Coil. The Cosby Show also did an episode on modesty with more or less the same message. Good thing Cosby isn't a predator or anything

By Tove!

But seriously, thank you for having these conversations. It's really fucked up how much evangelicals sexualize their children.

Jimmy McMillan

You three guys seem to have a good grasp of child psychology and an empathy towards young people. Have you all thought about adopting a baby together?

Korax

I called the ad break joke as soon as you said the name, and then still laughed because it's so perfectly stupid. And the talk about slurping made me think of the 7-11 Dance the Slurp promo record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRVeiJwupo4

Workers' Lit

Hearing these episodes for the first time in who knows how many years were like war flashbacks. Doing the thousand yard stare as I drive my commute

Rosey Armstrong

Hahahahaha oh noooo - I absolutely went through a phase where I asked God what I should wear each day 😬🤣