TW: This episode includes mentions of sexual abuse, extreme spiritual abuse, and a suicide attempt.
Angie Jay, spiritual abuse survivor and political activist, joins Chuck and Brady to share her horrifying Evangelical experience when she served as a missions intern at the age of 18. Far from home and family, the missions organization leadership forced her to describe -- in mixed company and with great detail -- the long history of sexual abuse she had experienced, which started when she was only 2, in order to "heal." When the leaders felt Angie wasn't responding to their abusive counsel in the way they wanted, the main male leader took the situation to a horrifying new level. Her told her the sexual abuse left a demon in her that he needed to remove. And, without her consent, that's what he attempted to do.
The complex nightmare continues when she returned home and much of her home church leadership believed her abusers over her or showed her no empathy.
Listen to see how Angie discovered a better life after on this episode of The Life After Podcast, hosted by Chuck Parson and Brady Hardin.
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Pushing Beyond (Being Othered x Theology) with Verdell Wright
Failed Missionary (YWAM x Abuse of Power) with Corey Pigg
Recovery (Queer x Addiction) with Kendal
The Breakfast Church (Rebellion x Community) with Jessie W.
The Airing of Grief and Unbelief (Beliefs x Authenticity) with Derek Webb
Indoctrination (Social Pressure x Questioning) with Tim Warzel and Jamie Lee Finch
Professional Help (Church Counseling Dangers x Licensed Therapy) with Ari Holtz, PhD
#EmptyThePews (Spiritual Abuse x Deconstruction Movement) with Chrissy Stroop
Prey (Consent x #ChurchToo) with Kyla Bauer and Jamie Lee Finch
Humanism (Ethics x Secular Community) with James Croft, Ed.D.
Enough (Domestic Violence x Mental Health) with Ashley Adams
Get Out of My Head (Inner Dialog x Sexual Discovery) with Renée
Conversion Therapy Dropout (Shame x Family Pressure) with Curtis G.
Out of Control (Church Control x Personal Autonomy) with Kristen H.
Black and White Thinking (Evangelicalism x Racism) with Prisca Jebet Kendagor
It’s Okay Not to Believe (Normalizing Questioning x Personal Evolution) with Caleb Doyle
God’s Only Forgotten Son (Family Trauma x Queer) with Brady Hardin
Unbuckling The Bible Belt (Intuition x Purity Culture) with Jamie Lee Finch
Facing Death Without Faith or Fear (Death x Secular Strength) with Zach B.
Homeschooled to Homewrecked (Divorce x Christian Homeschooling) with Marnie K.
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