My guest today is Karen, the co-host and creator of the Deconversion Therapy Podcast. Karen is a comedian, a writer, and now a podcast host. She grew up attending Evangelical schools from grade school to Bible college. Everyone is good at something. I was good at being a Christian. Karen was so dedicated to Christianity she became a missionary with YWAM. After attending DTS, she and her husband moved to Thailand. With hindsight what I got called to was adventure, meaning, purpose, travel and helping people. Honest laughter from the Thai women she was working with shook Karen up enough to recognize maybe they were fine without her Western Jesus after all. Later after reading Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus, Karen further deconstructed when she discovered the premise of her missionary work, Mark 16:15 “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” was not in the original manuscripts. Karen’s best advice to Christians: Don’t research. It is bad for your faith. Along, with her co-host Bonnie, Karen uses humor, sarcasm, self-deprecation and occasional snark to eviscerate the silliness of Evangelicalism. Their podcast is Deconversion Therapy. We can laugh at this stuff. We are OK. You can laugh at this. You are going to be OK. Links Website: https://deconversiontherapypodcast.com/ Deconversion Therapy Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/deconversiontherapy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deconversiontherapy/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Deconversion-Therapy-Podcast-378017629443177/ Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/302187740481879/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_DeConverted Book Recommendation Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEGJF8 Interact Deconversion How To Deconvert In 10ish Easy StepsSend in a voice message to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/gracefulatheist/message Attribution “Waves” track written and produced by Makaih Beats Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike