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Treating Religious Trauma: From Doctrine to Recovery (with Ann Russo, LCSW)

Healing Sexual Religious Trauma Syndrome (with Dr Tina Schermer-Sellers)

Faithfully Dissident Daughters: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood Beyond Patriarchy (with Chelsea Kim Long)

"There, He Holds Her": Ministry, Mysticism, and Reclaiming a Stolen Life (with Meg Calvin)

The Guru Gene: From Blind Faith to Clear Thinking (with Janice Selbie, MPCC)

Missionary Kid, Religious Trauma, and Leaving Christianity (with Josh Foster)

Four and Twenty Blackbirds: Inside Mars Hill and the Trial of Paul Petry (with Rob Thain Smith)

From Pulpit to the Path: Recovery, Deconstruction, and Christian Mysticism (with Paule Patterson)

Born and Razed: Surviving the Cult Was Only Half the Battle (with Beth Granger)

More Than Church Hurt: A Therapist's Guide to Religious Trauma Syndrome (with Morgan Piercy, LPC)

Inside Opus Dei: The Catholic Cult Hiding In Plain Sight (with Gareth Gore)

Trying To Love An Invisible, Silent God: Chapter 4 From "Not So Shiny Not So Happy People"

The Christian Past That Wasn't: Debunking Christian Nationalist Myths (with Dr Warren Throckmorton)

Spiritual Bypassing: How Religion Masks Grief, Trauma, and Hard Emotions (with Dr Terri Daniel)

Not In My Town! Life in Doug Wilson's Moscow (with Sarah Bader)

Pete Hegseth and Doug Wilson: Patriarchy, Power, and Politics (with Peter Bell of the Sons of Patriarchy)

I Belong To Me: Recovery and Hope After Religious Trauma (with Tia Levings)

Revisiting "The Myth of Good Christian Parenting" (with Marissa Burt & Kelsey McGinnis)

Two Ex-Pastors Deconstructing Christianity Together (with Timmy Joe Gibson)

Part 1: A Conversation with Nick P from The Autistic Pod

Yes, We WERE Teenage Fundamentalists! (with Brian & Troy from IWATF)

Money, Lies, and God: The Movement to Destroy American Democracy (with Katherine Stewart)

Weaponizing Christian Zionism and Christian Nationalism (with Brandt Burleson)

A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: Spiritual Abuse And Life on the Other Side (with Katherine Spearing)

Restart and Restore: Surviving Manipulative Cults and Relationships (with Rachel Bernstein)

Surviving a Narcissistic Relationship (with Stacie Rae)

Taking Off The Tinfoil Hat: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories (with Cynane Shay)

The Myth of Good Christian Parenting (with Marissa Burt and Kelsey McGinnis)

Slavery, Misogyny, and Racism: It's All In The Bible (with David Johnson)

From Christian Rocker to Losing Jesus (with Mikee Bridges)

Bonus Episode: Not So Shiny Not So Happy People Chapter 3 Book Promo!

America: Fed Into Trump's MAGA Woodchipper (with Frank Schaeffer)

An Ex-Evangelical and an Ex-JW Discuss Dr Robert Lifton's 8 Markers of Cults (with Stephen Mather)

Shame-Sex Attraction: Surviving Conversion Therapy (with Dr Lucas Wilson)

Vance Boelter: A Christian Assassin Radicalized by the New Apostolic Reformation

Project Esther: Weaponizing Antisemitism to Take Away Rights

Bonus Episode: The Cult of Trump and Project Esther (with Chris Shelton)

The Real Conversation Jesus Wants Us To Have (with Regina Cates)

The 7 Mountains Mandate: The Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy (with Matthew Boedy)

Helping People To Escape From Christianity (with Tim Mills)

Change Your Life Script: Dealing with Limiting Beliefs (with Austra Putnina)

Two Chapters From My Book "Not So Shiny Not So Happy People!"

What Happens When Jesus Isn't Enough? (with Rob Connelly)

Should You Be Concerned About Trump's Project 2025 Agenda? (with Chris Shelton)

Holy Terror Classic Edition: Catching up with Conway & Siegelman - A MindShift Sequel

Interspirituality: Ten Words To Make The World A Better Place (with Lauryn Axelrod)

Rift: Breaking Away From Christian Patriarchy (with Cait West)

Blue Jellyfish Syndrome: Mental Health After Leaving Religion and an Abusive Marriage (with Karen Unrue)

Bonus Episode! The Violent Take It By Force: Christian Nationalism is a Threat to American Democracy (with Matthew D Taylor)

Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown (with Annie Dawid)

Breaking! Updates to Project 2025 and the Cult of Trump (with Chris Shelton)

The Way: Meaningful Spirituality for a Modern World (with Larry Jordan)

Tim Sledge Interviews Me About My New Book "Not So Shiny Not So Happy People!"

Not So Shiny Not So Happy People: "The Terror of an Empty House" Chapter Reading

Creating Peace: Enduring Suffering Without God (with Dean Krosecz)

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (with Tia Levings)

Hurt and Healed by the Church: Redemption and Reconstruction After Spiritual Abuse (with Ryan George)

Leaning Into the Deconstruction Thing (with Keith Giles)

Surviving Roy Masters' "Foundation of Human Understanding" Cult (with Marissa Hackett)

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (with Sarah McCammon)

Bonus Episode! We Have Ruined God: My Journey Out of Religion and Into Unconditional Love (with Dr Sheri Pallas)

Dismantling Doctrine Part 1 with Anna and Kari Jo of the Heretical Hippies Podcast!

Unmasking Project 2025: A Threat to American Democracy (with Jenny Cohn)

Deconstruction: Unpacking Your Inherited Beliefs (with Jonathan Davis)

Patreon-Only Exclusive! Exposing Project 2025: A Threat to American Democracy

Trump's MAGA Army: Playing the Endgame (with Frank Schaeffer)

Finding Your Authentic Self After Leaving Religion (with Wren Story)

Patreon Only Exclusive! "Shiny Happy People": The Toxic Teachings of Evangelical Purity Culture

Discussing "God and Country" (with Katherine Stewart)

Taking Dominion: From the NAR to Mike Johnson (with Matthew D Taylor)

Giving Up God: Resurrecting a Spirituality of Love and Wonder (with Sarah Hayward)

Crossover Episode Part 2: An Interview with Rachel Bernstein of the IndoctriNation Podcast

The Christian Right: Taking Dominion in 2024? (with Peter Montgomery)

Terrified of Picking the Wrong God (with Joshua Stewart)

Wearing a Stained-Glass Mask: Deconstruction, Explained (with David Hayward)

Getting Jefferson Right: Debunking the Historical Revisionism of Christian Nationalism (with Dr Warren Throckmorton)

Holy Heathen: Blowing It Up and Starting All Over (with Katherine North)

4 Disturbing Questions with One Simple Answer: Breaking the Spell of Christian Belief (with Tim Sledge)

Confessions of a Former Christian Publisher (with David Morris)

Crossover Episode Part 2: Cheers to Leaving and MindShift Podcast (with Rachael and Molly)

January 6th, 2020 as an Apocalypse: Evangelicals and Conspiracy Theories (with Jared Stacy)

Jesus Christ: Good Teacher, Bad Teacher, or Cult Leader? (with David Johnson and Gary Hudson)

Surviving Sexual Abuse in Doug Wilson's Logos School (with Emilie Paige)

Roman Collar Crime: The Transgressions of a Small Town Priest (with Charles Utter)

Programming, Lies, and Manipulation: Surviving the Morningland New Age Cult (with Frankie Tease)

Surviving Abduction, Abuse, and a Cult (with Dawn McCarty)

Doug Wilson Part 8: The Theological War Thesis and Southern Slavery, as it Was

The 2023 Conference on Death, Grief, and Belief (with Dr Terri Daniel)

Surrender to Reason: An Ex-Pastor's Journey of Deconversion (with Gary Hudson)

Cult Child: Escaping Sam Fife's "Move of God" Cult (with Vennie Kocsis)

God, Guns and Abortion (with Frank Schaeffer)

Scientology: Cult Control, Coercion and Manipulation (with Chris Shelton)

Pastor to the Public (with Nate Manderson)

Doug Wilson Part 7: Biblical Patriarchy & The Manosphere

Doug Wilson Part 6: My Most Famous Student (with Dr Nick Gier)

Bonus Episode: A Follow-up to A "Christian" Defense of Slavery (with David Johnson)

Doug Wilson Part 5: A "Christian" Defense of Slavery (with David Johnson)

Doug Wilson Part 4: His Toxic Theology

Doug Wilson Part 3: The Many Scandals

Doug Wilson Part 2 - Biblical Patriarchy: Power, Control & Spiritual Abuse (with Cait West)