Holy Disobedience: Melissa Duge Spiers on the Seventh Day Adventist Church (Part 2)
Part 2 with Melissa Duge Spiers picks up at the “WTF moment” when a call about her beloved father—a once‑celebrated Adventist youth pastor and doctor—exposes him as a child predator and shatters the g...
2 Apr 42min
Holy Disobedience: Melissa Duge Spiers on the Seventh Day Adventist Church (Part 1)
In Part 1 of our episode with Melissa Duge Spiers, she pulls back the curtain on Seventh‑day Adventism (SDA)—a massive but strangely invisible denomination she describes as a classic end‑times cult bu...
30 Mar 46min
Twisted Yoga: Ashleigh Freckleton on Atman/MISA and Gregorian Bivolaru
In this episode, we finally sit down with Ashleigh Freckleton, one of the central voices in the Apple TV docuseries Twisted Yoga and a former devotee of MISA/Atman Yoga, the transnational yoga-tantra ...
26 Mar 57min
Escaping Scientology with Liz Gale: Audits, Absurdities, and Aftermath
In this episode, Liz Gale shares what it means to be a third‑generation Scientologist, born into a fanatical family where every aspect of childhood—schooling, discipline, even getting sick—was filtere...
23 Mar 1h 1min
Sex, Shame, and Sacred Secrets: Nancy Ross on Mormon Garments (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Nancy Ross, we dig deeper into the fascinating (and frankly under-discussed) world of Mormon temple garments, the sacred undergarments worn by many devoted membe...
18 Mar 45min
Surprise Drop: A Little Bit Culty Hits Amazon!
A Little Bit Culty: Navigating Cults, Control and Coercion dropped on Amazon this past weekend and has already hit #1 new release in the psychology & religion category!The Kindle version is coming any...
16 Mar 2min
Sex, Shame, and Sacred Secrets: Nancy Ross on Mormon Garments (Part 1)
In this episode, Dr. Nancy Ross—religious studies professor, longtime Mormon feminist, and co‑author of the forthcoming book Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret—joins us to talk about what it’s like to...
16 Mar 34min
Ashtanga Yoga After Pattabhi Jois: Magnolia Zuniga on Consent, Adjustment, and Real Healing (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our conversation, Magnolia Zuniga goes deeper into how the Ashtanga world responded—or failed to respond—to decades of sexual abuse by Pattabhi Jois and what that reveals about belonging,...
12 Mar 39min
