Impure, Rethought

I am sorry this took so long, as you know it's been a ride but SEASON 2 IS COMING TO YOU!

In this episode, Vika tells high school friend Lauren about the history of homeschooling in the United States, and how it became associated with Christian fundamentalism. Digressions include Spongebob, unschooling, and the controversy of carbon dating.

Full show notes are available on the website, impurerethought.com

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Us:

Twitter and Instagram: @ImpureRethought

Victoria: @village_witch on Twitter, Threads, and Instagram

Thanks to Lauren for joining!

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Join Vika and friend (and ghost tour guide in Salem, Mass.) Eliza Unseth as we slightly chaotically talk about Halloween, how our relationships to fear have changed as adults, how we explore darkness in writing, and walk through Vika's nightmare circus once again.

Instagram: @ImpureRethought

Twitter: @ImpureRethought

Vika: @village_witch on Twitter and Instagram

Eliza: @rubbishpirate on Instagram

The following sound effects were used in this episode:

Maniacal Witches Laugh by Michael Koenig

Thunder Strike 1 by Michael Koenig

Halloween Vocals by Michael Koenig

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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of suicidal ideation, family death

A bit of a different episode today...Meg and Vika talk through how they journeyed into the Church TM and then out of it. There is lots of cringe at our high school selves, along with more serious topics like grief, mental health and how the church treats women.

Thank you for coming along with us for the first season, we've absolutely loved doing this, and can't wait for Season 2!

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Us:

Instagram: @ImpureRethought

Twitter: @ImpureRethought

Victoria: @village_witch on Twitter and Instagram

Meg: @megplant_parm on Twitter and Instagram

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Apologies in advance for one of our more somber episodes. Today we’re diving into the United States’ tumultuous relationship with relationships, from before the Mayflower to today. It’s a wild ride, but we promise it’s not all bad: you might be (distantly) related to both Meg and Julia Child.

Content warnings: suicide, LGBTQ+ discrimination

Full show notes are available on our website, impurerethought.com.

Resources for You:

PFLAG.org

LGBTQcenters.org

The Trevor Project

OUT MetroWest

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Us:

Instagram: @ImpureRethought

Twitter: @ImpureRethought

Victoria: @village_witch on Twitter and Instagram

Meg: @megplant_parm on Twitter and Instagram

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It’s our big day! No one’s getting married, but we have our very first guest. Brittany Lane is here to talk with Meg about all things purity culture and marriage, from weird virginity metaphors to bad theologies.

Content warnings: spiritual and sexual abuse

Full show notes available on our website.

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Us:

Instagram: @ImpureRethought

Twitter: @ImpureRethought

Victoria: @village_witch on Twitter and Instagram

Meg: @megplant_parm on Twitter and Instagram

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In the second part of our (not that) deep dive on Communism, we talk about who is possibly the Antichrist again, how the Red Scare affected Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whether colonialism or communism is Worse, why the French Revolution was bad, actually, and how to cleverly edit the Bible so it supports made up statistics. Бога нет! 

Full show notes are on our website, impurerethought.com.

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Us:

Instagram: @ImpureRethought

Twitter: @ImpureRethought

Victoria: @village_witch on Twitter and Instagram

Meg: @megplant_parm on Twitter and Instagram

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In today’s episode, Vika tells Meg about Christianity’s favorite dirty word, Communism. How did these two ideologies which seemingly have a lot in common become bitter enemies? We talk about Marx and Engels’ incredible relationship, Russia’s religious revival, and much like communism itself, Greece and Stalin both show up in unexpected places. 

Special thanks to our sound guy, Chris Wright.

Full show notes are available on our website, impurerethought.com.

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Us:

Instagram: @ImpureRethought

Twitter: @ImpureRethought

Victoria: @village_witch on Twitter and Instagram

Meg: @megplant_parm on Twitter and Instagram

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We’re going back to the original Unprecedented Times this week with an episode about creation myths from all over the world. Are women the root of all evil? Is Zeus out to get us? Or are we all just playthings for a god who was bored? From Genesis to the Quran, Meg walks Vika through a few of the stories people have told about where we came from and what it means to be human.

Special thanks to our sound guy, Chris Wright!

Full show notes are available on our website, impurerethought.com

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Us:

Instagram: @ImpureRethought

Twitter: @ImpureRethought

Victoria: @village_witch on Twitter and Instagram

Meg: @megplant_parm on Twitter and Instagram

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