An 'exvangelical' on loving, leaving and reporting on the culture of Christianity

Worshippers attend a concert by evangelical musician Sean Feucht on the National Mall on Oct. 25, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up in Kansas City, Mo., in the 1980s and '90s in an evangelical Christian community that taught her to fear God and never question her faith. She was "saved" at age 2, baptized at 8 and raised watching Christian movies and reading Christian books.

"The sense was just that the secular world was full of sin and was lost," she says. "I knew very few people who were not evangelical Christians."