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Survivor's of Larry Ray's sex cult Felicia and Daniel discuss how they came to meet Larry, how he leveraged his memory and connections to craft an image of authority, how Larry gained control of their lives under the guise of helping them, when the manipulation elevated into sexu ...  Show more

This week’s guest is Theo Pratt, survivor of Gloriavale, an isolated Christian cult hidden deep in rural New Zealand, and author of Unveiled: A Story of Surviving Gloriavale. She’ll talk about being raised on the strictly controlled commune where people were assigned new names, w ...  Show more

This week, Sara and Danny are joined by Lola Blanc and Meagan Elizabeth from the podcast "Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Beliefs, and the Abuse of Power" to talk all about the scandal that swept through Mormon MomTok. They discuss the Mormon MomToker at the center of it all, Taylor Fra ...  Show more

Madeline Walter (@madelinemwalter) joins Kevin and Caroline to talk all about the 1998 direct-to-video series Bibleman!SHOW NOTES:Bibleman: Defeating the Shadow of DoubtGCF Spotify PraylistCHARITY:This month we’re donating all our profits to the Houston Foodbank, a charity benefi ...  Show more

A very recent Christian militant cult, the Aggressive Christianity Mission Training Corps was founded in the late 1970s by married couple Lila and Jim Green. Lila would later change her name to Deborah, after the biblical prophetess of the God of the Israelites and the only fe ...

A church in South Carolina has gone viral recently--even making national headlines. A young pastor by the name of JP is caught on a recorded sermon saying:

“One day I’m going to preach about getting rich, strong, healthy, and finding a hot wife that loves Jesus!” 

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