
Preacher Boys Podcast
An ex-fundamentalist sheds light on the dark side of the church… from the pulpit to the pews.
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Dec 20, 2020 • 49min
The Pressure of the IFB Culture
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Dec 13, 2020 • 8min
SOLO: Avoid Echo Chambers!
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Dec 11, 2020 • 1h 13min
Jesus and John Wayne | Kristin Kobes Du Mez
📖 Get a Copy of Kristin's Book Here: https://amzn.to/3gCD9aw 📖Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for the Washington Post, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Christian Century, and Religion & Politics, and has been interviewed on NPR, CTV, the CBC, and by CNN, the New York Times, the Economist, the Christian Post, PBS News Hour, and the AP, among other outlets, and she blogs at Patheos’s Anxious Bench.Her most recent book is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism, or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the role of culture in modern American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals may not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex―and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical popular culture is teeming with muscular heroes―mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done.Trump, in other words, is hardly the first flashy celebrity to capture evangelicals’ hearts and minds, nor is he the first strongman to promise evangelicals protection and power. Indeed, the values and viewpoints at the heart of white evangelicalism today―patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community―are likely to persist long after Trump leaves office.A much-needed reexamination, Jesus and John Wayne explains why evangelicals have rallied behind the least-Christian president in American history and how they have transformed their faith in the process, with enduring consequences for all of us.Find more stories regarding the IFB movement by visiting:preacherboysdoc.comhttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdochttps://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboysdoc/To connect with a community who share the Preacher Boys Podcast mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at
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Dec 9, 2020 • 2h 17min
Faith Baptist Wildomar's Predatory Bus Ministry Director
From 1991-1992, Laverne Paul Fox, the Bus Ministry Director at Faith Baptist Wildomar, California engaged in sexual relationships with minors, guilting them into silence.Upon discovering this situation, Pastor Bruce Goddard allegedly did not report to authorities but rather ordered Fox to leave the state and the families to stay silent.This story was used as leverage over youth pastor Victor Monterio's victims from 1998-2013. Victor calmly reminded his victim, Rachel Peach, that "preacher won't do anything."But refusing to report abuse is not some unwritten rule at Faith Baptist Church. It is literally a written one.In January 2020, a former member and victim of abuse from Faith Baptist Wildomar shared the church's three-page "Whistle-blower Policy."The instructions are crystal clear:"A supervisor who becomes aware of suspected misconduct should not report the case to an authorized law enforcement officer without first discussing the case with the Pastor, appointed Deacon, Staff Member, or Female Reporter."In this episode, Kathy Durbin shares her story of abuse at the hands of Paul Fox, and the cover-up that ensued.Find more stories regarding the IFB movement by visiting:preacherboysdoc.comhttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdochttps://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboysdoc/To connect with a community who share the Preacher Boys Podcast mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at
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Dec 5, 2020 • 1h 8min
James Clidence | Why I Was Fired From Agape Boarding School
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Dec 4, 2020 • 17min
BREAKING: David Hyles Faces a New Rape Allegation
CHICAGO — A former Hammond resident claims in a federal lawsuit she was repeatedly raped as a young student more than four decades ago by the son of the then-pastor and president of the First Baptist Church of Hammond and Hyles-Anderson College.Nanette Miles, who agreed to be named publicly for this article, said then-youth director David Hyles, who was son of then-Pastor Jack Hyles, called her into his office in September 1976 when she was 13. She alleges in the lawsuit she was given a drink and then blacked out.She claims she woke up on the office floor while being raped by David Hyles.(Full Article: https://bit.ly/3opzsrM)Statistics and Studies About Sexual Assault:https://www.nsvrc.org/statisticshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/ejpt.v6.25883https://www.fcasv.org/sites/default/files/False_Report_FS.pdfhttps://www.rainn.org/Find more stories regarding the IFB movement by visiting:preacherboysdoc.comhttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdochttps://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboysdoc/To connect with a community who share the Preacher Boys Podcast mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at
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Dec 3, 2020 • 10min
SOLO | How to Effectively Engage With Fundamentalists
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Nov 29, 2020 • 1h 12min
Allen Knoll | Surviving Bethel Academy (IFB Reform School)
Get a copy of Allen's book, Surviving Bethel, FREE on Kindle Unlimited: https://amzn.to/33oR26TAllen Knoll is the author of Surviving Bethel, a documentary director, and producer with Bethel Documentary Group. He was sent to Bethel Academy at the young age of ten, and would later attend Agape Boarding School.Find more stories regarding the IFB movement by visiting:preacherboysdoc.comhttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdochttps://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboysdoc/To connect with a community who share the Preacher Boys Podcast mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at
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Nov 26, 2020 • 12min
Celebrating One Hundred Episodes of Preacher Boys
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Nov 24, 2020 • 44min
Bridget Seavey | From Assault Victim to a Career in Criminal Justice
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