Content warning: sexual abuse

In this episode, God-lover Kyle chats with Angella d'Avignon – a writer and studio manager, currently writing a book about ghost towns. We talk about her evangelical upbringing and family history. Her great-grandfather, Paul Hutchens, is the author of The Sugar Creek Gang children's book series. Her grandfather was a radio pastor and buddies with Billy Graham. And her mom helped found a popular after-school arts program in 1981, Christian Youth Theater.

Topics include:

• Itinerant Evangelicalism
• Sugar Creek Gang series
• Tent Revival Circuit
• Religious Trauma Syndrome
• Purity ring ceremonies
• Invisible Children
• Christian Community Theater
• Christian branding
• Christian media
• Leaving evangelicalism

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