135: Anna McGahan on the Stories that Shape Us, Break Us, and Make Us - a podcast by Devi Abraham & Jessica Van Der Wyngaard

Anna McGahan is an Australian actress and storyteller who found God in the most radical of ways. Baptised into the Pentecostal tradition, she gave up everything to follow Jesus only to find that life in the church wasn't quite what it seemed.  In this episode we discuss:

• meeting God and meeting the church, it's not the same
• finding agency in celibacy
• losing queerness to find God
• recovering a sense of equilibrium and self

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Anna McGahan is an actor, author, screenwriter, playwright and poet. Anna's work prioritises a defiant female gaze to explore experiences of embodiment, motherhood, sexuality and spirituality. She is the author of the Vogel Prize-winning novel, Immaculate, a book of poetry about motherhood, Skin, and the memoir, Metanoia. She lives in Meanjin (Brisbane), with her two young daughters. Subscribe to her Substack here.

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