Monthly Archives: June 2010

Jenny Hollowell

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Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe

Original airdate: June 25, 2010

“Birdie Baker has always dreamed of becoming someone else. At twenty-two, she sets off to do just that. Walking out on her pastor husband and deeply evangelical parents, she leaves behind her small-town, small-time life and gets on a bus to Los Angeles.

Nine years later, Birdie’s life in Hollywood is far from golden, and nothing in the intervening years—the brutal auditions, the tawdry commercials—has brought her any closer to the transformation she craves. Caught between success and failure, haunted by guilt about a tragedy in her long-forsaken family, Birdie is at the brink of collapse when she meets Lewis, a beautiful but naïve young actor with his own troubled history, whose self-destructive impulses run dangerously parallel to her own.” – from jennyhollowell.com

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Gina Welch

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In the Land of Believers

Original airdate: June 4, 2010

“When I started undercover, I sort of thought I could automatically fit in by showing up to services in a sweater set. Joining an orientation class and attending sermons I quickly discovered that fitting in had very little to do with how I looked: Evangelicals communicate in an entirely different language, and until I knew the mothertongue, I wasn’t going to get an intimate understanding of anyone. And I had begun by devoting my attention to the megachurch rituals instead of to the people. I was going to have to go deeper—to commit myself to attending church as the worshippers did. So I joined a ministry for singles and started coming to church two and three times a week. Incrementally, I got the kind of unguarded access that allowed me to see the complicated personalities beneath the evangelical gloss.”
– from ginawelch.com

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