This week's guest is Julie Anne Smith, known primarily for her blogging and activism through the Spiritual Sounding Board blog.
Julie Anne not only works hard to expose church abuses of all kinds--sexual as well as spiritual--she is herself a survivor, having come through the ranks as a former Christian homeschooling mom. She subsequently began to deconstruct and question a lot of the indoctrination she received through Christian homeschooling curriculum and conferences.
In this wide-ranging and informative chat, we cover everything from Bill Gothard, RJ Rushdoony, Michael Farris of the HSLDA, and how the whole movement somehow...is all linked together under the concept of "Christian dominionism."
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Bonus Episode: How Cults and Cult Leaders Maintain Control over Followers
Deconversion Stories (with Neil604 Atheist)
Deconstruction: You're Not Crazy, You're Growing! (with David Hayward, "The Naked Pastor")
Escaping the Cult Bubble: Different Ideology, Same Psychology (with ex-Scientologist Chris Shelton)
Bonus Episode: The Psychology of Conversion and Deconversion (adapted from Robert Jay Lifton)
Is Evangelicalism a Cult? Recovering From Our Experiences (with Keith Davis)
054: "Cults Inside Out": Exploring How Cults Operate (with Rick Alan Ross)
053: Exposing the Watchtower Organization: Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses Speak Out (with Lara Kaput and Steven Unthank)
052: "Leatherbound Terrorism": Christianity and Control (with Chris Kratzer)
051: Exploring the Connections Between Evangelicalism and the World of the Cults
050: Jesus Had Sex? Exploring "The Last Temptation of Christ" & Purity Culture (with "Seamus Clarke")
049: Healing Religious Trauma Through Spirituality (with Andrew Jasko)
048: Reconstruction: The Total Reorientation of Your Former Worldview (with Andrew Gurevich)
047: Why Do They Hate Us? Making Peace with the Muslim World (with Steve Slocum)
Special Edition: "In God We Trump" (with Christopher Maloney)
046: Walking the Path of Deconversion (with Janice Selbie)
045: Head First Into the Mystery (with Jimmy Brougher)
044: Has Humanity Ruined God? (with Sheri Pallas)
043: Reconstruction after Deconstruction (Live Podcast with Stacie Rae)
042: Disentangling Yourself from Religion (with Valerie Heacock Cunningham)
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