Julianna Glasse was a chart topping Christian pop star who sang at Donald Trump's 2017 National Prayer Breakfast and taught tens of thousands of women that their closeness to God ran straight through their husbands. Then her husband found the books she was hiding, threw one on the floor, and told her "this is what happens when you read." She turned his sentence into the title of her new book, lost her marriage, her tours, and her book deal, survived death threats and sexual violence threats from fellow Christians, and became the first single woman ever partnered with Oxford's Saïd Business School. What religion actually teaches women about their own worth, and what it costs to walk away from it.
Notable timestamps:
[02:48] Meeting Julianna Glasse, and the cheeky title of her new book
[04:01] The doctrine of depravity, taught to her at age four
[09:04] Singing at Trump's 2017 National Prayer Breakfast, and what she was taught about women
[12:39] Meeting her gay neighbors in 2015, and the first crack in her belief system
[15:11] Public shaming, death threats, and sexual violence threats after her divorce
[21:18] The night her husband threw her books on the floor
[27:16] Losing everything, then applying to Oxford's Saïd Business School
[33:53] Sexual exploration, non-monogamy, and reclaiming her body
[45:44] Launching This Is What Happens When Women Read, and reaching 4 million women in 67 countries
[51:18] Her relationship to God and a higher power today
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