We grew up with worship music in our lungs and guilt stitched into our skin. Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with longtime friend Megan Neumann, someone who’s known Dayna through awkward middle school youth group phases, purity culture, and the quiet pressure to be the “perfect” church girl. Together, the duo unpack the holy ghosts that raised them, the guilt that followed them, and the grace they’ve finally learned to give themselves. In Episode 17, Dayna and Megan unpack growing up in a predominantly white, conservative church, navigating Puerto Rican identity, hiding poverty, purity culture, sex, shame, and the freedom that came with leaving it all behind. This one is for the church kids who stopped apologizing, the ones who learned that holiness isn’t ...