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How Nashville’s ex-evangelicals are making their own Christmas traditions

Marianna Bacallao

December 19, 2024

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For the  growing number of women leaving the church, Christmas can be a particularly difficult time. So, some are making their own traditions.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Christmas, evangelical, lgbt, lgbtq, music, religion, United Methodist Church

30 years later, the evangelical purity movement still impacts sex education

Magnolia McKay

August 1, 2024

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It was a breakout moment in the evangelical purity movement — a movement that impacts sex education in the United States to this day. Jill Dender was one of the first teens to sign the pledge while traveling with her youth group from Tulip Grove Baptist in Nashville

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, History, NPR News, WPLN News Tagged With: Christian, Christianity, evangelical, NPR, purity culture, religion, sex ed

Nashville’s exvangelical movement

Mary Mancini

May 2, 2024

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Today, we delve deep inside the growing movement of people who identify as “exvangelicals.”

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Christian, Christianity, evangelical, nashville churches, religion

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