Welcome!

I’m Karen.

My interests are how the power dynamics of religion, society, pop culture, purity culture, and politics coincide.

I like deep convos on the beach, I should stay on my anti-inflammatory diet, and I used to be an evangelical missionary.

Book:

For Which He Stands : The True Tale of the CIA, Castro and a Catholic, 2001, Audiobook by actor Armando Riesco.

Work in Progress: A Tell-All of American Evangelicalism

Essays and Articles:

Women’s Bodies Are Bearing the Brunt of Purity Culture, Jezebel, Sept. 2022

I Was An Evangelical Christian, And I Know Why Many Of Them Resist Logic About COVID-19, Huffington Post, Sept. 2020

Fidel Was Robin Hood. Fidel Was a Monster. Narratively, Dec. 2016

The Distorted Gospel of Paula White, Jezebel, Jan 2016, archive