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The Dating & Desire Podcast is a Christian dating and sexuality podcast for singles and dating adults who want more than rules or fear-based answers.
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- Sep 29, 2026
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EP.32 Dating After Deconstruction: Recovering from Purity Culture with Dr. Camden Morgante (opens the original)
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Dr. Camden Morgante, psychologist and author of Recovering from Purity Culture, joins Lauren and Bridgett for a conversation about dating after deconstruction and what it looks like to rethink the beliefs you inherited about faith, sexuality, and relationships. Drawing from both her clinical work and her own purity culture experience, Camden offers a hopeful reminder: you do not have to have your faith completely figured out before you can date, connect, and keep discovering what you believe. Th
EP.31 Dating After Divorce: Finding Healthy Love After an Abusive Marriage with Kendra LeeAnne Kuntz (opens the original)
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Kendra LeeAnne Kuntz, a gospel-centered Bible teacher and writer, joins Lauren and Bridgett for a conversation about divorce, healing, and what it means to risk your heart again after an abusive marriage. Drawing from her own story, Kendra shares how well-meaning Christian teaching about purity, submission, and marriage shaped the way she understood herself, and why it took leaving her marriage to begin recognizing some of what she had been living through as abuse. The deeper tension here is tha
EP.30 Women and Porn Addiction: Breaking Shame and Finding Freedom with Ellie Berry (opens the original)
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Ellie Berry, a Sexual Addiction and Recovery coach, joins Lauren and Bridgett for an honest conversation about women, pornography, and what the path toward real freedom can look like. Drawing from her own experience with pornography addiction and recovery, Ellie names the isolation many women carry when their story does not fit the common assumption that pornography is primarily a man's struggle. Together, they explore why healing takes more than shame, willpower, or simply trying harder. Ellie
EP.29 Christian Dating Advice You Should Stop Believing (opens the original)
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Have you ever been told dating should feel easy, that the right person will show up when you stop looking, or that maybe you’re just being too picky? In this episode of Dating & Desire, Lauren and Bridgett unpack some of the Christian dating advice singles hear over and over and ask whether it’s actually helping. They talk about why anxiety doesn’t always mean a relationship is wrong, why dating is meant to be a process of discovery rather than a search for certainty, and why finding love still
EP.28 Sexual Compatibility Before Marriage: How Can You Know Without Sex? (opens the original)
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If you're waiting until marriage to have sex, how can you know if you and the person you're dating are sexually compatible? Lauren and Bridgett explore what sexual compatibility can look like long before sex enters the relationship. Rather than treating compatibility as something you can only discover through sexual activity, they look at the ways attraction, emotional safety, boundaries, honesty, and the ability to stay connected through disagreement can reveal how someone may eventually show u
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