Sandra and Ashley, both raised Catholic and both long gone, get into Welcome to Plathville, Death of a Pastor’s Wife, and how religion keeps ending up as a way to control women. Ashley also coins “autistic for God,” and Sandra talks about how she DNF’d the Bible.

Content note: this episode is about religion, specifically Christianity, from the perspective of two women who were raised Catholic and left the church. The critique is aimed at institutional religion and how it treats women, not at individual faith, and there’s no room here for anti-Semitic or Islamophobic commentary. If this one’s too personal, skip it with no judgment.

Links and Resources Mentioned:

@alexandrthecity on TikTok (the Holy Biblay book club series): https://www.tiktok.com/@alexandrthecity

What Happened This Episode:

• 0:00 — Content note
• 1:08 — Spooky season decorating and “house beauty is pain”
• 5:26 — Telling people you found Jesus vs. telling people you have a podcast
• 16:15 — Welcome to Plathville, deconstructing, and patriarchy in the church
• 29:52 — “Autistic for God” and growing up Catholic
• 39:21 — Why they left, and the world religions class
• 51:45 — Death of a Pastor’s Wife
• 1:02:09 — DNF’ing the Bible
• 1:07:05 — Religion, control, and shame
• 1:22:02 — Mormon Wives updates and a podcast check-in

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