Moving Past Evangelical Shame

A Conversation with Meghan Crozier of Thereafter

Last week here at The Bugbear Dispatch, I wrote an essay about the comprehensive presence of shaming in evangelical subculture. For evangelicals, shame—certainly around sex, sexuality, and gender roles, but far from only that—functions as both an internalized and external mechanism for discipline and control.

I am far and away not the only exvangelical w…