Speaking of Cults...Overcoming Child Abuse in Religious Groups ft. Dr. Maurice Turmel
This week I welcome Dr. Maurice Turmel, a clinical psychologist with decades of experience treating religious trauma syndrome and author of Breaking the Spell of Religion. We discuss the negative atti...
31 Aug 20241h
Speaking of Cults...Religious Extremism in America ft. Rev. Ben Cremer
This week I welcome Reverend Benjamin Cremer, a Christian pastor and religious influencer who has some very positive Christian messaging to fight back against the more extreme versions of Christianity...
24 Aug 20241h 50min
Speaking of Cults...The Threat of Pseudoscience in Health
This week I welcome Dr. Jonathan Stea, a clinical psychologist and author of the new book Mind the Science, to discuss pseudoscience in physical and mental health fields and how this can create even m...
17 Aug 202457min
Speaking of Cults...Project 2025 and Christian Nationalism
This week I welcome Dr. Clint Heacock, a former Evangelical minister who has spent years taking apart the Christian Nationalism movement and efforts by various political groups to turn the US into a t...
10 Aug 20241h 22min
Speaking of Cults...Christian Fundamentalism is a Cult ft. Tia Levings
This week I welcome Tia Levings, author and survivor of very serious abuse at the hands of not only her Christian Fundamentalist ex-husband but by the entire "purity culture" mindset she was raised in...
3 Aug 20241h 22min
Speaking of Cults...Staying SAFE After a Cult
This week I welcome Reverend Doctor Kenneth Garrett, a Portland-based minister who not only has his own survivor story as a former cult member but who has worked to help setup a community support grou...
20 Jul 20242h
Speaking of Cults...Diving Deeper into the 2x2s
This week I welcome Pamela Bowen, a third-generation survivor of the 2x2s, the "cult with no name" which has been appearing in media lately, and rightfully so as it's a religious cult that has enabled...
13 Jul 20241h 36min
Speaking of Cults...Foundations of Cult Recovery ft. Christian Szurko
This week I welcome Christian Szurko, a cult recovery consultant who has been helping people in their post-cult life for as many decades as I've been alive! Christian and I discuss key principles of c...
6 Jul 20241h 45min
