Saved or Shattered? A Teenager’s Descent Into Evangelical Extremism

Saved or Shattered? A Teenager’s Descent Into Evangelical Extremism

Liz Boltz Ranfeld, who was featured in the recent Shiny Happy People 2 documentary, was fully immersed in the “Teen Mania” lifestyle. She went on several overseas mission-trips that caused more fear and guilt due to the inability to faith heal on the spot, however it opened her eyes to other cultures that were being labeled as “demonic”. Her father was a well known Christian singer/song writer, Ray Boltz, which put all eyes on her to be a perfect example. Fully blind to the harms being caused at Teen Mania, she only started deconstructing after her parents forbid her from doing the full time-year-long-internship after her brother nearly died and she was stranded overnight at a busy airport with no help from the organization. Her father later came out as gay just as their whole family was doing away with Christian Fundamentalism and she would end up being one of the most critical voices against TM.

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Chapter Marks


00:00:00 Intro

00:03:19 Liz' upbringing and childhood

00:05:06 First impressions of Acquire the Fire

00:11:21 Liz' mission trips

00:21:30 Liz' parents influence

00:27:07 Teen Mania

00:32:03 How Columbine affected Liz

00:35:24 Liz' begins to question Teen Mania

00:42:32 Why Liz wasn't able to continue with Teen Mania

00:47:57 Liz' deconstruction

00:52:34 Recovering Alumni blog

00:55:02 Growing from the experience

01:00:13 What Liz hopes people get out of the documentary

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