Meg & Sarai are former church kids who came of age in 80s and 90s American Evangelicalism - We are Holy Ghosting
In each episode, we tackle healing from our youthful experiences and the harm we endured and perpetrated as American Evangelicals, and we laugh, we're sarcastic ladies.
We're working to reconstruct a community that gives a shit about our neighbors. Join us as we work to tear down the American foundation of patriarchy and white supremacy and rebuild a better world with equity and equality as Ex-Christians.
You Get To Have That: On Reclaiming Our Selves from Purity Culture
Join Sarai and Meg as they discuss the lasting impact of purity culture on our bodies, sexuality, and sense of self. From shame-filled messages like “sex is bad, and your body is bad” to the process of reclaiming pleasure, power, and agency, we explore what it means to move from restriction into liberation. We can reclaim the things that were taken away from us when we were young to build vibrant, healthy, beautifully sensual lives if we want that for ourselves.
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4 Sept 2025
Jesus as a Marketing Campaign: The Branding of White Christian Nationalism with Dr. Mara Einstein
In this episode, Meg sits down with Dr. Mara Einstein, professor of media studies and author of the new book Hoodwinked, to dissect the billion-dollar “He Gets Us” campaign and the larger machine of white Christian nationalism behind it.
We explore how evangelical marketing strategies are crafted to target vulnerable populations, why American exceptionalism is such a powerful theme in religious messaging, and how shifts in post-COVID culture, from rising loneliness to financial instability, are being leveraged for recruitment and control.
From tithing campaigns that put churches before families, to courses and data companies shaping belief at scale, we trace how faith is being branded and weaponized as a political tool. But we also talk about resistance: how education, activism, parenting shifts, and even organized boycotts can disrupt this machinery and reclaim community on healthier terms.
This is not just about ads—it’s about power, propaganda, and what it means for democracy when faith becomes a marketing strategy.
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28 Aug 2025
From Quiet Time to Loud Self: Liz Boltz-Ranfeld on Reclaiming Spiritual Writing
In this episode, we sit down with Liz Boltz-Ranfeld to talk about what happens when we take back the pen. For so many of us, writing was once locked inside the rigid frame of quiet times and journaling for the Lord. But Liz invites us to re-envision spiritual writing as something wildly more powerful: a practice of healing, resistance, and reclaiming our own sacred voice.
This is a conversation for anyone who’s ever felt their words stolen by purity culture, evangelical guilt, or spiritual performance. Liz shows us how those same words can be reclaimed—reborn as rituals of self-tending, liberation, and joy.
Let’s keep ghosting the past, and write our way into a future that belongs to us.
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