Mattie Jo Cowsert

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.