Radicals & Revolutionaries Lab

This week’s radical is Linda Kay Klein, author of the memoir Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, and founder of the nonprofit Break Free Together, which helps people who have left the purity movement to find closure and a sense of community by sharing their stories with others.Over the course of our conversation, we discuss what purity is, how it impacted a generation of women (and men), the path that led Linda to a new understanding of the world, and how she’s worked to help others find the same healing she has.Some Questions I Ask:What was the spark for your book, Pure? (1:21)What does it mean to be expected to go from no sexual contact whatsoever, to being hypersexual? (13:32)Tell me about your nonprofit, Break Free Together (16:44)What brought your family into the Evangelical church? (27:41)What led to you leaving the church? (34:15)What was the path that led you to New York? (41:29)How did your parents handle your shift away from the purity