Desi Lydic

Because I think, like, a lot of what, there is a spiritual deficit, I think, going on in our country right now on a lot of different levels.

And I'm not, I grew up very religious.

I don't, I'm not an organized religion person.

As a child, I went to church every Sunday.

You'll read about it in the books.

And believed, I read that Bible and I believed in honey.

Yes.

I was quoting Bible verses.

I was summarizing a Sunday school lesson in church every week.

They would ask a young person every week, you know, because I would go to Sunday school and then go to the main service, what did you discuss in Sunday school?

What young person would like to summarize a Sunday school lesson?

I was like, me, me, me.

So I read that Bible, you know?

And that was going to be my question for you growing up in the South and attending church and having to reconcile Christianity with what you were feeling inside and who you were attracted to, who you identified as.

What is your relationship to faith now?

How has that evolved over the years?

I like to say I left the church, but I never left God.

As I became... The truth.

The truth.

As I became more educated about religion, the history of religion, in high school and college, I was just like, this is a corrupt institution.