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b'Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University San Marcos where she teaches courses in United States history. Her first book,\\xa0Disgraced: How Sex Scandal Transformed American Protestantism, will be published in early 2024 by Oxford University Press.\\nA specialist in the fields of U.S.\\xa0religion and sexuality, Suzanna has published in both scholarly and popular outlets, like\\xa0The Revealer\\xa0and\\xa0Religion and Politics.\\xa0Her scholarly work was recognized by the 2019-2020 Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network. In 2022, she was named a Public Research in Religion Institute Fellow in the area of Religion and LGBTQ Rights. Always interested in translating academic expertise to broader publics, she currently serves as a trainer in the Sacred Writes program, which connects students of religion with public-facing scholarship.\\xa0\\nWe spoke about the Falwells, the Bakkers, the Haggards, why the wives often stand by their scandal-plagued pastor-husbands, and what these scandals reveal about evangelical Christianity.\\n\\u2014 Why do scandal-plagued pastors\' wives stay by their husbands\' side? (5:00)\\n\\u2014 Is the supposed shame of divorce too strong? (8:00)\\n\\u2014 Should we feel bad for these wives? (9:42)\\n\\u2014 What the heck is going on with the Falwells? (11:59)\\n\\u2014 Suzanna describes her journey from missionary to doubter (14:24)\\n\\u2014 Are younger evangelicals changing how we talk about this issue? (16:05)\\n\\u2014 How long have these scandals been going on? (18:06)\\n\\u2014 What do these scandals say about evangelical Christianity? (20:12)\\n\\u2014 How can these pastors still preach "purity"? (26:54)\\n\\u2014 Did anything in Suzanna\'s research surprise her? (31:30)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'