Well, hey friend, welcome to Job with Julie. I'm Julie Slatery, the host of this listener-supported podcast.

And what we're doing here is an outreach of a larger ministry called Authentic Innocie.

Our mission is to help people make sense of God and sexuality.

Well, there is a lot of conversation these days about what some people call purity culture.

You might have some strong opinions about it, or you might be confused about why it's created

so much pushback.

Well, that's where I'm headed today.

I'm joined by author and psychologist Dr. Camden Morganti, who wrote a book called Recovering

from Purity Culture. Camden has devoted a lot of her

clinical practice as well as her doctoral work on helping people understand and recover from

the fallout of faith and purity culture. During this conversation, we're going to get into some

detail about the main concepts and narratives of purity culture that ended up being so problematic for people, and then talk about how we can move forward.

So I hope you enjoy my discussion with Dr. Camden Morgante.

Well, Camden, I feel like we have so much in common in terms of the things that God has called us to,

the fact that we both are psychologists and have clinical training and are trying to integrate

biblical principles with the things that we've learned in the field of psychology.

And your heart and really your life's work now is focused on particularly helping people recover from what we might call purity culture.

So this is some of your story.

So I'd love to know a little bit about what brought you into this and how did you get to the place where you're like, this is what I want to do with my life.

Yeah. Well, it's definitely been a journey. It's evolved over time and has taken me places

that I never expected, as God often does. But yes, I'm a licensed clinical psychologist,

and so I went and got my doctorate right after undergrad, and so I was pretty young when I graduated,

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