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Welcome to Pop Culture, Baptized, my new Friday segment where I take what’s trending and look at it through the eyes of the faith.

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County just dropped on Hulu, and one storyline is going to shape a lot of the women and teenage girls who binge it this weekend. A mom of three leaves her marriage for a relationship with a married couple, and when her friends who still practice their faith won’t celebrate it, the show paints them as closed-minded and petty. In this video I talk about what that teaches viewers about conviction and acceptance, where Mormon teaching and Catholic teaching on God and marriage part ways, how fast throuples are being normalized in media and law, and why the Church has never measured right and wrong by consent alone.

Then we turn to Call Her Daddy. Sofia Franklyn just released her memoir telling her side of the split with Alex Cooper, and Dave Portnoy’s memoir from this summer includes a claim that most people skipped over: that a plan to allege sexual harassment was floated as a way out of their Barstool contracts. Cooper disputes his account. We’ll look at what it would mean if it’s true, and why false accusations hurt real victims most.

Finally, we get to the part that matters most: what you watch forms your soul. Jesus said the eye is the lamp of the body, and St. Augustine’s story of his friend Alypius at the gladiator games shows how easily we become what we keep looking at.

What trending story should I take on next Friday? Let me know in the comments.

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