Ken welcomes journalist Anna Beahm.  While working as a full-time journalist for Reckon Media, Anna's specialty - reporting and researching - is sex education and purity culture in America. Her articles are receiving high reviews and a wide audience. Reckon Media is "an award-winning national news organization that covers the people powering change, the challenges shaping our time, and what it means for all of us." Anna earned her degree in journalism at the University of North Alabama. Here's how Reckon describes journalist Anna Beahm: she's a "a North Alabama native living in Nashville with her husband, Ty. Anna draws on her experience growing up in a small town in Alabama to inform her reporting on the state of sex education and evangelical purity culture across America. Her reporting addresses the scientific, emotional and spiritual aspects of how purity culture and abstinence-only sex education has affected a generation of Americans." Ken and Anna engage in a frank discussion around the critical impact of these very personal issues. They play out not only in churches, youth groups and Christian institutions like schools and colleges, but (surprisingly) in the federal government as well. Anna shares her personal experience growing up in a conservative church and private Christian schools in rural Alabama. She gets vulnerable. Her awakenings in college and in her marriage prompted her rigorous investigation - and her writing. Anna's work is getting lots of attention - from young women who struggle and from other media sources. SHOW NOTES

Anna's Collection of Articles - https://www.reckon.news/author/abeahm/

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