Mattie Jo Cowsert Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

Join us for an inspiring conversation with author, Mattie Jo Cowsert as she shares about her new book, God, Sex, and Rich People: A Recovering Evangelical Testimony on Friday, June 20th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location.

Registration includes the following options:

• A signed copy of the book … OR

• A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store

We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book.

If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.

ABOUT THE BOOK

What happens when an Evangelical pastor's daughter from Branson, Missouri moves to New York City?

A collapse of identity that begins a journey to figure out faith, f*cking, and the 1%.

With humor and raw honesty, God, Sex, and Rich People follows Mattie Jo as she takes off her purity ring, navigates public transportation, and tries to have good sex without hating herself.

From dating her doorman, to sex with a pop star, to living with millionaires, watch Mattie Jo hilariously fumble and find her footing, as she redefines her sexuality and spirituality in the city that never sleeps (and never stops sleeping around).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mattie Jo is an actor, author, and self-proclaimed over-sharer.

She was a pastor’s kid and proud purity ring wearer before she moved to New York City and experienced an unexpected worldview and identity implosion thanks to Tinder and her Jewish roommate. When marriage equality passed in 2015, Mattie Jo decided to share how the queer community was one of the catalysts for questioning everything she’d been taught about this Jesus guy in her first publicly released blog post entitled: God and the Gays. This was the start of her popular blog, God, Sex, and Rich People.

Before terms like “deconstruction”, “purity culture” or “Exvangelical'' became hashtags viewed by billions, God, Sex, and Rich People exposed the sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious realities of a young female Exvangelical navigating the diversity of the Big Apple, working for the 1%, and trying to have good sex without hating herself.

Mattie Jo has appeared on The New Evangelicals Podcast, Girl Boner Radio, and Talkin’ Politics and Religion without Killin Each Other, among many others. She was invited by author Linda Kay Klein to join the Voices and Faces + Breakfree Together collaboration writing cohort on Religious Trauma, one of only ten individuals across the US to be selected. God, Sex, and Rich People, the TV series developed by Mattie Jo, won the Audience Choice Award at the 2024 Yale Innovation Summit. Her debut memoir is God, Sex, and Rich People: A Recovering Evangelical Testimony.

Mattie Jo lives in New York City where she is a babysitter for billionaires, lives in luxury by proxy during the work day, then goes home to her beloved partner and lives like a regular-person-artist -plebe.

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