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Karis Berkowsky

Humanist Wedding Officiant, author of "Clearly Written by Boys: A Woman's Guide to the Bible" (co-authored with David Fitzgerald) and "Why Men Made God"

Jul 14, 2026

10:04
Did you come out of a Fundy faith, or have you always been smarter than me? [laughs]
10:08
Oh, no, I was, I was very much a good little Christian.
10:12
Um, uh, my, my sort of moment when I lost it was, um, in confirmation class.
10:18
I was a evangelical Lutheran.
10:20
Um, and we, we were in confirmation class, and we were learning about transubstantiation and consubstantiation.
10:27
You know, where the, the, the priest says the magic words, and then the bo- the bread and the crackers turns into the body and blood of Christ, and then we're supposed to eat it.
10:35
And I freaked out in the middle of confirmation class.

6 MINS LATER

16:33
[laughs]

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