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Recovering From Religion — 306 episodes
Coming Out Twice, featuring RfR Volunteers
RfRx - The Dangers of Alternative 'Medicine": The Wickedness of Woo, Featuring Kat McLeod
Presenting Skepticism At LA’s Largest Spiritual Conference, Featuring Ross Blocher
Secular Community Building
Understanding and Challenging the Antivax Movement
Religion Spotlight: Old Order Mennonites
The Evolution of Atheist Activism: From Ancient Dissent to Digital Discourse
Pride is Not a Deadly Sin
From Superstition to Science: Unmasking the Myths of Tourette Syndrome
What is Orthodox Judaism? An Inside Look From Someone Who Left The Path
Fighting Mormon Purity Culture & Dress Code
Masturbation, Porn, and Your Sex Life
Reclaiming Your Life After Leaving Religion
Sex and Gender Diversity in the Animal World
Filling the Vacuum Left Behind by Religion with a Love for Science
Confronting Transphobia in the Secular Movement
A Brief Evolutionary History of What We Are and How We Got Here
Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture
Fighting Mormon Purity Culture & Dress Codes
RfRx - Eating the Forbidden Fruit, featuring Nicholas Lamar Soutter
RfRx - Anthropology Through a Skeptical Eye: When do Beliefs Become Harmful? Featuring Malorie Mackey
RfRx -Breaking Free:women’s stories of rejecting patriarchy and religion, featuring RfR Volunteers
RfRx -Why is Biological Sex So Controversial? featuring Steven Novella
RfRx - Human Rights Over Human Beliefs, featuring Neil the 604 Atheist
RfRx - Moving with Mental Health: We Have Bodies not Soul, featuring David Teachout
RfRx-Who Do You Trust When Misinformation Becomes Health Policy? featuring Dr. Andrea Love
RfRx-Community Building in Difficult Times, featuring Secular Rarity
RfRx-Food & Farming Disinformation, Risk Perception and Social Media Influence Featuring Kevin Folta
RfRx - How to Teach Evolution to a Creationist, featuring Forrest Valkai
RfRx - Cult Recovery is Harder Than You Think, featuring Chris Shelton
RFRx - Conspiracy Theories, Christian Nationalism, and You, featuring Ember
RfRx - Scholarship or Apologetics? How to Tell the Difference, featuring John Gleason
RfRx - An Evolutionary History of Religion, Part 2, featuring David Fitzgerald
RfRx - Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us
RfRx - Deconstruction Story Hour with RfR Volunteers
RfRx - Sex Evolution, featuring Dr. Darrel Ray
RfRx - The Functionality of Our Emotions: Tools for Seeing What Matters, featuring David Teachout
RfRx - Snapping Away Religion: The Usefulness of Thought Experiments featuring Jason Racheotes
RfRx - How to Find Meaning in a Meaningless World, featuring Helen Greene
RfRx - Why Facts Don’t Change Minds, featuring Seth Andrews
RfRx - Secular Civics, featuring Cynthia McDonald
RfRx - Militant Atheism? featuring Jimmy Jr.
RfRx - Deconstruction as a Family, featuring Stacie Grahn and Her Mom
RfRx - Climbing out of the Rabbit Hole: Cons, Cults & Conspiracies, featuring Coleman Watts
RfRx - Fall Excursion: Stories of Hope, Healing and Community, featuring Dr. Ben, Will Harrell, Darante’ LaMar Martin, and David Teachout
RfRx - Life Lessons from the Lab: How Learning Science Makes You a Better Person, featuring Forrest Valkai
RfRx - Secular Grief Support: Meeting at the Intersection of Love and Loss, featuring Rebecca Hensler
RfRx - Life Lessons From a Senior Skeptic, featuring Phil Ferguson
RfRx - The Four Disciplines: Strategies to Simplify Challenging Conversations, featuring Nick Dallett
RfRx - The Death Care Workbook, featuring David Teachout and Tee Rogers
RfRx - Recovering from Cults and Mind Control, featuring Dr. Steven Hassan
RfRx - The Devil in the Details with Autumn Sword
RfRx - Atheist in a Christian Land: Being an International Non-Believer in America featuring Jon Lovell (The SkepTick)
RfRx - Are Humans Special in the Universe? featuring Rob Palmer
RfRx - Screwing with Sexuality- An ExJW's Story, featuring Shana Rubio
RfRx - My Savior Comes to Thee and Me, featuring Mary Byler
RfRx - Building Secular Community, featuring Darante’ LaMar Martin
RfRx - Visibility of the “Invisible” in the Humanist Community, featuring Rebecca Vitsmun
RfRx - The Importance of Community, featuring Secular Rarity
RfRx - Reclaiming Your Pride, featuring Glenda Jordan, Dr. Ben, and Jonathan Roudabush
RfRx - The Implausibility of the Resurrection, featuring Richard Gilliver
RfRx - Pride Panel, featuring Glenda Jordan, Dr. Ben, and Jason Friedman
RfRx - Decisions of Life and Death, featuring David Teachout
RfRx - Ross Blocher Infiltrates Scientology
RfRx - A Conversation with Aron Ra
A Musical Evening with Shelley Segal
Fundraiser: The Line Panel Discussion Featuring Shannon Q, Paulogia, Eve Was Framed, and Aron Ra
Crimes of Faith In Latin America, featuring Teo el Ateo
Playing God: The Evolutionary History of World Religions, featuring David Fitzgerald
RfRx-Misinformation Trap, Changing Minds: Journey from Creationist to Biologist, Melanie Trecek-King
RfRx-Misinformation Trap, Changing Minds: Journey from Creationist to Biologist, Melanie Trecek-King
Interfaith Family: Marriage and Parenting with Mutual Respect, featuring Steve Ghikadis
Black and White Thinking in a Grey World, featuring Dr. Ben
The Trials and Tribulations of Mental Health Therapy, featuring David Teachout
Mythicism 101, featuring John Gleason
The Devil is in the Details, featuring JD Sword
Be You: Liberating Your Authentic Self with Ember
RfRx - The Law of Attraction with Rachel Hunt
RfRx - Love is Not a Mystery with David Teachout
RfRx - Mormon Book Club:Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites with Stephanie M (Contraddiction)
RfRx - Psychic Blues: Investigating psychic and Mediumship with Mentalist Mark Edward
RfRx - The Case Against God(s) with Jason Racheotes
RfRx - Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds with Melanie Trecek-King
RfRx - Mr. Deity Drops By with Brian Keith Dalton
RfRx - Why We Still Have to Worry About the Creationists with Dr. Eugenie C. Scott
RfRx - Deconversion Story Hour with RfR Volunteers
RfRx - Celebrating Yule with Satan and Dr. Sarah St. Abaddon
RfRx - Separation of Church and Hospital with Doctor Ben
RfRx - God Likes to Watch: The Blaming and Shaming of Purity Culture with Seth Andrews
RfRx - All Aboard Noah’s Ark A Walk Through the Ark Encounter with Ross Blocher (No Ticket Required)
RfRx - Deconstructing Monogamy Post-religion: An Introduction to Polyamory with Glenda Jordan
RfRx - Identifying Your Values with Travis McKie-Voerste
RfRx - Why Smart People Fall For Religion with Chris Shelton
RfRx - Why Dualism Won’t Go Away with David Teachout
E212: Cuban Ray-guns, Schoolgirl Poisonings, and Monkey Men with Rob Palmer
E211: Atheist Street Pirates: Building Secular Community with Evan Clark
E210: Godless Engineering with John Gleason
E209: Laughing Loudly in Outer Darkness with Stephanie M.
E208: Playing Devil's Advocate with Lucien Greaves
E207: Getting Lost in Trauma w/ David Teachout
E206: Separating Religion and Government w/ Geoffrey T. Blackwell
E205: Deconstruction on the Spectrum with Anthony Dominello
E204: Surviving a Christian Cult w/ Andrew Pledger
E203: Politics and Civic Engagement After Religion: Part 2 w/ Jason Racheotes
E202: Philosophy and Secularism w/ Nicholas Soutter
E201: How to Avoid Cognitive Bias w/ Richard Gilliver
E200: Trauma and Your Brain w/ Dr. Darrel Ray
E199: Why There Is No God w/ Armin Navabi
E198: How to Avoid Getting Hung Up on Bad Ideas w/ Matt Dillahunty
E197: Why Science Education is Important w/ Dr. Ethan Siegel
E196: Celebrating Sex Positivity w/ Arden Hart
E195: Logical Fallacies: The Sequel w/ Rob Palmer
E194: Answering the Call w/ Jimmy Snow
E193: Incels and the Boy Crisis w/ Dr. Darrel Ray
E192: Healthy Activism with ObjectivelyDan
E190: Techniques For Difficult Conversations w/ Kara Griffin, PhD
E189:Therapy isn’t a Sacrament w/ David Teachout
E188: Investing in the Future with Skeptical Thinking w/ Phil Ferguson
E187: Using Creativity to Compost Religious Trauma w/ Lauren Alexander
E187: Logical Fallacies w/ Rob Palmer
E186: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Atheist w/ Ethan Micheal
E185: A Human History of Emotion w/ Dr. Richard Firth-Godbehere
E184: Magical Thinking After Religion w/ Helen Greene
E183: Awful Christian Relationship Advice w/ Exxtian Erin
E182: Cracking Up: Notes of a Good Girl Gone Mad w/ Dr. Jennifer Manlowe
E181: From Troubadours to Modern Musicians and Rom-Coms, Love and Relationships w/ David Teachout LMHC
E180: From Child Prophet to Shunned Ex-Evangelical, Self-Discovery and Healing After Religion w/ Jason Friedman
E179: No Meaning Outside Fundamentalism? Being a Buddhist Atheist w/ David Teachout LMHC
E178: Advocacy and Atheism in the Black Community w/ Cynthia McDonald
E177: Turning Over a New Leaf, From "Perfect" Christian to Secular Activist w/ Stacie Grahn
E176: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate: A Holiday Hangout
E175: Suicide Bereavement and Supporting Loss Survivors w/ Lindsey Doolittle
E174: "Breath of Life" Putting the Pneuma Back Into Spirituality w/ David Teachout LMHC
E173: Supporting the Queer Community w/ Ryan K.
E172: Mindful Self-Compassion and Religious Trauma w/ Christy Powell
E171: A Journey Through 'Woo' with Kelley Laughlin
E170: Politics and Civic Engagement “After” Religion w/ Jason Racheotes
E169: The Psychology of Fear w/ David Teachout LMHC
E168: The Phantom God, What Neuroscience Has to Say About Religion w/ Dr. John Wathey
E167: Grief Vampires w/ Susan Gerbic
E166: (Failed) Psychic Predictions w/ Rob Palmer
E165: Filled with the Spirit: Demonic Possession and Spirit Belief w/ Dr. Kara Griffin
E164: The Illusion of God’s Presence w/ Dr. John Wathey
E163: Life After Purity Culture w/ Registered Professional Counselor Janice Selbie
E162: Studying Religion Skeptically w/ Richard Gilliver
E161: Religious Trauma and the Search for Identity w/ Jennifer Manlowe PhD
E160: Skeptical Paranormal Investigations w/ Kenny Biddle
E159: The Psychology of Abortion: Nothing is Simple w/ David Teachout LMHC
E158: Not So Intelligent Design w/ Dr. Nathan Lents
E157: A Reproductive Rights Round Table Discussion
E156: Religion: What Is It Good For? w/ Kara Griffin, PhD
E155: Are All Atheists Angry? How to Stay Friendly Through Tough Conversations w/ Secular Rarity
E154: When Your Partner Leaves God w/ Sherrie D’Souza
E153: Navigating Difficult Conversations w/ Dr. Betty Iglesias Snyder, PhD
E152: Skepticism and the Paranormal w/ Rob Palmer
E151: The Dynamics Of Intuition & Simplicity: Why It's So Enticing w/ David Teachout LMHC
E150: The God Virus w/ Dr. Darrel Ray
E149: Cancer While Christian: Just Follow the Damn Rules! w/ Nancy Pinto
E148: RfR 3.0 Project - All About RfR w/ Gwen Blodgett, Board Member & RfR 3.0 Project Manager
E147: The Myth of Sex Addiction w/ Dr Darrel Ray
E146: Exiting the Rabbit Hole: From Red Pill to Recovery w/ Stephanie Kemmerer
E145: The Evolution of Religion w/ Dr Mark Reimers, PhD
E144: Engaging with the Public as an Atheist w/ David G. McAfee
E143: The Fall Excursion - All About RfR w/ Excursion Director & RfR Treasurer Shanon Nebo
E142: Connecting Low Self-Esteem & Self-Harm to Cult Membership w/ Cathy Harris
E141: Objectification vs Empowerment w/ Glenda Jordan
E140: Tibetan Buddhism w/ Tahlia Newland
E139: Resources Collection - All About RfR w/ Resource Director Dan Cancro
E138: Paganism, An Ancient New Religion w/ Helen Greene
E137: Surviving & Conquering Conversion Therapy w/ Dr Mark Eastwood
E136: ExCommunications Blog - All About RfR w/ Blog Director Kristina Callaway
E135: The Most Dangerous Woman in Tennessee w/ Gayle Jordan, RfR Executive Director & Dangerous Woman
E134: Online Community - All About RfR w/ Online Community Co-Directors Steve Ironside & John Lionheart
E133: Suicide: The Tragic Angel Of Our Nature w/ Dr. Andy Thomson, M.D.
E132: The Secular Therapy Project - All About RfR w/ STP Co-Director Travis McKie-Voerste, PhD
E131: Support Groups - All About RfR w/ Support Groups Director Eric Wells
E130: Finding The Mental Health Pro Who's Right For You w/ Dr. Travis McKie-Voerste, LPC
E129: The Helpline - All About RfR w/ Helpline Director Erik Huckvale
E128: Narcissists And Sociopaths: Mistaking Traits For Personality w/ David Teachout, LMHC
E127: The Volunteer Program - All About RfR w/ Board Secretary and Volunteer Coordinator Shana Rubio
E126: Who TF Am I Now? w/ Ferron P. Wiley
E125: History - All About RfR w/ Founder Dr. Darrel Ray
E124: The Courage To Be Yourself - Rebuilding Your Identity After Leaving a Religion w/ Janice Selbie, RPC
E123: Introduction - All About RfR w/ Executive Director Gayle Jordan
E122: Nudist Life - What It Is & Why It Can Be Good For You w/ Gwen Blodgett
E121: Secular Spirituality: Beyond Woo Woo & Religious Claims w/ Rachel Roberts
E120: Sexual Integrity: Finding The Courage To Be Yourself w/ Dr Steven Davidson, LCSW
E119: The Supremacy Of Religious Rights In The Shadow Of A Pandemic w/ Torah Bontrager
E118: Christian Nationalism In America w/ Andrew Seidel
E117: Finding Inner Safety Without Dogma w/ June Converse
E116: "Stuck In a Threesome With Jesus" Science, Sexuality, and Sex After God w/ Dr. Darrel Ray
E115: Education, Wisconsin v. Yoder & The Amish Heritage Foundation w/ Torah Bontrager
E114: A Non-Believer's Holiday Survival Guide w/ David Teachout LMHC
E113: Facing Death As An Atheist: ALS & Dying Out Loud w/ Dave Warnock
E112: California Raisin': Growing Up Fundamentalist and Leaving It All Behind w/ Alexis Arralynn
E111: Darwin Does Dope: An Evolutionary View of Substance Abuse w/ Dr Andy Thomson
E110: American Atheists w/ Samantha McGuire
E109: The Amish w/ Torah Bontrager
E108: The Biology Of Religion w/ Dr. Mark Reimers, Ph.D.
E107: The Amway of Cults, Bad Perms & Other 1980s Atrocities with Rachel Roberts, Th.M.
E106: On Death, Dying and Disbelief w/ Candace Gorham, LCMHCS
E105: Grey Conversations: Dialogue When Salvation Isn't On The Line w/ David Teachout, LMHC
E104: Critical Thinking: Inoculating Yourself Against False Beliefs w/ Rob Palmer
E103: Remembering Sweetness: Happiness in a Time of Plague w/ Andy Thomson, M.D.
E102: Kansas City Oasis & the Oasis Network w/ Niki Aktipis
E101: Free Hearts Free Minds w/ Yasmine Mohammed
E100: Mormonism w/ Shannon Grover and Bryce Blankenagel
E99: The Clergy Project w/ Charles Hill | RfRx Foundation Spotlight
E98: Black Nonbelievers w/ Mandissa Thomas | RfRx Foundation Spotlight
E97: Rebuilding When Your Foundation Crumbles w/ Katherine Roberts
E96: The Evolution of World Religions with David Fitzgerald
E95: Love's Labour's Lost: An Evolutionary View of Depression w/ Dr. Andy Thomson M.D.
E94: Christian Nationalism: Power, Privilege & Panic Over the Rise of the Seculars w/ Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist Podcast
E93: Belief in Psychics: Why We Believe, and What’s the Harm? w/ Rob Palmer
E92: The Science Of Sex w/ Dr. Darrel Ray
E91: Suffering and Martyrdom: Coexisting with Life w/ Hayley Twyman Brack
E90: From Small Town to Self-Acceptance; Being Trans & Ex-Religious w/ Sarah & Becca Ray
E89: Intermediate Level Street Epistemology w/ Anthony Magnabosco
E88: Experiencing Hasidic Judaism As A Woman w/ Libby Pollak | RfRx Religion Series
E87: Conversion Therapy w/ Bill Prickett
E86: Celebrating The Holidays As A Nonbeliever w/ Kace Hodos, LCMHC
E85: Seventh-Day Adventists w/ Teri Gamble & Ryan J. Bell
E84: Shunning: A Trauma-Informed Approach w/ Cathy S. Harris, LCSW
E83: Beyond Religious Identity: Moving Forward w/ Your Past with David Teachout, LMHC
E82: Morality Without Religion w/ Danielle LaSusa Ph.D.
E81: How to Not Be a Secular A$$hole w/ Rebecca Williams, LMFT
E80: The Fear of Hell: Understanding Residual Anxiety & Moving Forward w/ Hayley Twyman Brack
E79: How MLMs Work & How to Avoid Them w/ Taylor Leigh (The Antibot)
E78: Children and Mental Health: Implications when Raising Freethinkers w/ Candace Gorham LPCS
E77: Religious Trauma, Its Roots and Its Treatments with Dr. Darrel Ray
E76: Sexual Integrity w/ Dr. Steven Davidson, PhD, LCSW
E75: Personal Growth Post Religion w/ Janice Selbie, RPC
E74: Religious Guilt As An Invasive Species w/ Rebecca Williams & Praia Westerband-Otero
E73: Religion Series - Islam w/ Yasmine Mohammed
E72: Faces of RfR - Shanon Nebo, RfR Treasurer, Social Media Director, & Excursion Director
E71: Engaging the Black Religious Community with Mandisa Thomas
E70: Plenty of Fish: Finding and Building Your New Communities w/ Janice Selbie, RPC
E69: Dr. Darrel Ray - Faces of Recovering From Religion
E68: Disability and Religious Abuse: "God Will Make You See Again" w/ Itto Outini
E67: Jehovah's Witnesses w/ Lloyd Evans and Sherrie D'Souza - RfRx Religion Series
E66: Chris West - Faces of RfR
E65: Mind Control: Don’t Let an Old Flame Burn You Twice with Janice Selbie, RPC
E64: A Better Life w/ author Chris Johnson
E63: Naomi Mourra - Faces of RfR
E62: Keeping Kids Curious w/ Author J.R. Becker
E61: Sherrie D'Souza 3CR Radio Interview
E60: Hope in a Godless World with Danielle LaSusa, Ph.D.
E:59 Amaia Perez - Faces of RfR
E58: Boundaries - How to Respond to Praying, Preaching, & Proselytizing w/ Rebecca Williams, LMFT
E57: Gwen Blodgett - Faces of Recovering From Religion
E56: Realizing It's Over - Breaking Up(with Religion) Can Be Hard w/ Janice Selbie RPC
E55: Dating (and other connections) as a Nonbeliever w/ Mandisa Thomas
E54: Chris Boothman - Faces of RfR
E53: Creating Meaning Without God with Danielle LaSusa, Ph.D.
E52: Adjustment to Parenthood with Kayce Hodos, LCMHC
E51: Ask A Therapist w/ Kayce Hodos, LPC, Rebecca Williams, LMFT, and Praia Westerband-Otero, LMHC
E50: How Racism & Injustice Affects Our Mental Health w/ Mandisa Thomas & Candace Gorham, LPC
E49: Autonomy, Boundaries, & Consent w/ Marie D'Elephant
E48: Our Community Is Here - Utilizing Support Groups w/ Mandisa L. Thomas
E47: Accepting Your Sexuality After Religion w/ Praia Westerband-Otero, LMHC & Dr Darrel Ray
E46: Sherrie D'Souza - Faces of RfR
E45: Thriving in a Mixed Secular/Religious Relationship w/ Rebecca Williams, LMFT
E44: Grief Without God w/ Kayce Hodos, LPC
E43: Eric Finnegan - Faces of RfR
E42: The Psychology of Religious Trauma w/ Dr Hector Garcia & Dr Darrel Ray
E41: The Psychology of Religion During Crisis w/ Dr. Darrel Ray
E40: Maintaining Mental Health During Social Distancing w/ Dr Darrel Ray
E39: Coming out as Atheist in 2021 w/ Mandisa Thomas
E38: Judgement & Awkward Conversations: Dealing w/ Religious Extended Family w/ Rebecca Williams
E37: Sacred Harm: Abuse Within Religious Fundamentalism w/ David Teachout, LMHC
E36: Cognitive Dissonance: Why It's So Hard For Humans To Change Their Minds w/ Kayce Hodos
E35: Christianity: Seeking Simplicity in a World of Chaos w/ David Teachout
E34: Why We Believe In God(s) w/ Andy Thomson, MD
E33: Painful Endings and New Beginnings w/ Janice Selbie
E:32 Secular Addiction Recovery w/ Brian Fleming
E31: Is the Founder of Your Religion Imaginary? w/ David Fitzgerald
E30: Indoctrination. Ghosts in the Machine w/ Nate Phelps
E29: Reclaiming Your Sexuality After Religion w/ Dr. Darrel Ray
E28: The Fallacy of Sin w/ David Warnock
E27: Escaping Restrictive Gender Roles Post Religion w/ Rebecca Williams, LMFT
E26: Rock 'n' Roll Heretic: Trauma and Black Religious Respectability w/ Sikivu Hutchinson
E25: The Stigma of Nonbelief w/ Erin Louis
E:24 Religious Trauma: The Negative Impacts of Purity Culture w/ Christy Lanterman, LPC
E23: Anniversary Reflections…and Beyond
E22: The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid
E21: D-I-V-O-R-C-E from Religion with Janice Selbie
E20: Dying Out Loud – Facing ALS and Mortality
E19: Sexual Assault at Bob Jones University
E18: “Divine Currency” with Devin Singh
E17: Gender Non-Conformity in the Faith Community
E16: Leaving Mormonism…with a Song
E15: The Power of Cults
E14: Beneath the Hare Krishna Message of Peace and Higher Consciousness
E13: Religious Abuse
E12: From Make-Up Tips to Faith Deconstruction
E11: Scientology and Critical Thinking
E10: Sarah and Becca – Facing Changes as a Couple
E9: Atheist Pastor Luke King
E8: Lloyd Evans talks Jehovah's Witnesses
E7: A New Year with Recovering from Religion
E6: Everyone's Agnostic with Cass Midgley
E5: Gothardism with Micah J. Murray
E4: Anger and Grace with John Smid
E3: Fundamental Politics with Yvette Cantu Schneider
E2: QuickiePod "Boy Erased"
E1: Intro of Podcast and Co-Hosts