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The Speaking Out on Sex Abuse Podcast — 248 episodes

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Episode 249 | The End Is Near

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Episode 248 | Sifting Through Mental Illness and Scams

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Episode 247| Whistleblower Exposes ICC "Cult" That Ignored Abuse for Decades

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Episode 246 | Lives Are Spared Because of You Listeners!

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Episode 245 | Change Your Attitude Change Your Outcome

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Episode 244 | What To Do About Non-Reportable Instances of Abuse

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Episode 243| People Defending James MacDonald

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Edpisode 242| Dalai Lama's Pathetic Apology

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Episode 241 | We Have To Face Our Pain!

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Episode 240 | Beware of Self Proclaimed Experts

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Episode 239 | Do I Need To Immediately Forgive My Abuser?

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Episode 238 | Help Us Help Good People!

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Episode 237 | Surprising Stats About Prisoners In the US

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Episode 236 | Which Abuse Prevention Training Is Right for You?

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Episode 235 | Why We're Still Christians

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Episode 234 | Deception Detection Techniques from the FBI

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Epsiode 233 | Helping People Find Safe Shelter

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Epsiode 232 | Abuse Statistics and Predictions for 2023

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Episode 231| Domestic Violence Is Rising Dramatically

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Episode 230| Compound Trauma Is NO Joke!

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Episode 229 | A Year In Review and BIG NEWS!!

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Episode 228 | Mary Byler Amish Misfit

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Episode 227 | Should the Church Die To Stop Abuse?

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Episode 226 | What Does Forgive as the Lord Forgives Mean???

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Episode 225 | Should My Church Allow Sex Offenders To Attend?

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Episode 224: Should You Pay for Background Check Services?

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Episode 223: Decency Will Win the Battle Against Abuse

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Episode 222: Number of Female Pedophiles DOUBLES In Four Years

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Episode 221: School Teachers 100 Times More Likely To Abuse Kids than Catholic Priests

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Episode 220: We Did Our First Live Abuse Prevention Training!

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Episode 219: Why Are Registered Sex Offenders Allowed on Facebook?

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Episode 218: What To Expect When Reporting Abuse

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Episode 217: When Kids Display Signs of Abuse

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Episode 216: Middle School Boys Create "Pedo Database" for Creepy Teacher and He's Now On Leave

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Episode 215: Our Top 5 Components of Good Abuse Prevention Training

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Episode 214: Our Abuse Training Is All Wrong

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Episode 213: Children of the Underground - People Living In Fear

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Episode 212: Proof the SBC STILL Doesn't Get It!

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Episode 211: Pedophiles Among Us - How Do We Respond? (Part 2)

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Episode 210: Pedophiles Among Us - How Do We Respond? (Part 1)

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Episode 209: Easiest Way to Spot a Child Abuser (Part 5)

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Episode 208: Easiest Way to Spot a Child Abuser (Part 4)

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Episode 207: Easiest Way to Spot a Child Abuser (Part 3)

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Episode 206: Easiest Way to Spot a Child Abuser (Part 2)

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Episode 205 Easiest Way to Spot a Child Abuser (Part 1)

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Episode 204: How the Bible Describes Wolves (and It's Not Nice)

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Episode 203: Abusers Don't Change (The Bible Says So)

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Episode 202: Pastor John Lowe II Confronted By Woman He Raped When She Was 16

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Episode 201: SBC Secret Database Proves Leaders Never Cared About Victims

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Episode 200: Top 20 Lessons We Learned Podcasting

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Episode199: Husband Touches Minor and This Church Lets Him off the Hook

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Episode 198: Gothard's Girls- Charis Barker's Experience as a Survivor

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Episode 197: Churches Guarantee Failure When They Defend Abusers

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Episode 196: The Thing That All Successful Advocates Have in Common

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Episode 195: Why Churches Love to Bully Survivors

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Episode 193: The Best Way to Protect Kids From Abuse

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Episode 192: Should Spouses Report Abuse? It's Complicated

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Episode 191: 5 People Jailed for Not Reporting Abuse

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Episode 190: How Do I Make It Another Day?

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Episode 189: Do Abusers Really Groom Their Victims?

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Episode 188: Megachurch Pastor Restores Himself to the Pulpit After Infidelity

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Episode 187: Has Your Host Lost His Mind?

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Episode 186: Senator Book's Nude Photos Leaked and Sold

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Episode 185: How To Handle a Spiritual Abuser

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Episode 184: Pastor Kicks Visitor Out for Requesting Prayer | Spiritual Abuse

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Episode 183: Why Are Abusers So Weird? This Is How Pedophiles Think

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Episode 182: How Did Rogel Lose Control? | Insight From a Trucker

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Episode 181: Anna Duggar Stands By Josh | Eric Skwarczynski of Preacher Boys

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Episode 180: Les Ferguson Jr. on Child Abuser Who Murdered His Son and Wife

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Episode 179: How to Talk to Your Kids About Abuse

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Episode 178: How Do You Let Your Kids Know a Family Member Is an Abuser?

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Episode 177: Is the American Church Decline Contributing to Abuse?

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Episode 176: Trauma Voyeurism - Why We're Obsessed With Watching Other People's Trauma

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Episode 175: Are People Secretly Filming You?

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Episode 174: What Is the Difference Between Curiosity and a Kid Who Abuses?

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Episode 173: The Pandemic Within the Pandemic and How You Can Help!

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Episode 172: Catholic Church Abuse Cover Ups In France (Here we go again)

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Episode 171: Could Police Have Stopped Gabby Petito's Murder?

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Episode 170: Mendy Hicks Sues Everyone Who Covered Up Her Abuse

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Episode 169: Are We Using Too Many Labels for Abuse?

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Episode 168: How Do I Know if a Leader Is Abusive? With Christine Parker

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Episode 167: Naghmeh Panahi Testimony of Abuse by Jailed Pastor

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Episode 166: How Clara's Daughter Alex Found Healing from Her Dad's Abuse

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Episode 165: How Did the Church Respond When We Reported?

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Episode 164: Clara Tells Us How She Got Out of an Abusive Marriage (and how you can too)

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Episode 163: Cuomo's Behavior Is Eerily Familiar for Church Abuse Survivors

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Episode 162: How Do We Protect Victims When the Justice System Won't?

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Episode 161: Are There Really Non-Offending Pedophiles?

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Episode 160: If You've Been Abused In the Church God Will. . .

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Episode 159: Are My Kids Safe Online? Checklist

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Episode 158: Former Amish and Mennonites Tell Us How Bad Abuse Really Is (Part 2)

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Episode 157: Former Amish and Mennonites Tell Us How Bad Abuse Really Is (Part 1)

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Episode 156: Are My Kids Safe at Home? Checklist

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Episode 155: Are My Kids Safe at School? Checklist

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Episode 154: Are Your Kids Safe at the Doctor? Checklist

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Episode 153: Are My Kids Safe at Church? Checklist

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Episode 152: People Who Should Be Well Trained to Prevent Abuse (But Mostly Aren't)

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Episode 151: Don't Know Where to Begin? Clara and Jimmy's Top Book Recommendations on Abuse in 2021

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Episode 150: Josh Duggar Was Protected When He Needed Help Instead

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Episode 149: Should Christians Ever Have Sympathy for Child Abusers?

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Episode 148: Sheila Wray Gregoire Discusses The Great Sex Rescue

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Episode 147: Should the Church Help Victims Cut Ties With Their Abusers?

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Episode 146: Would People Who Welcome Abusers Entrust Their Own Kids With Them?

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Episode 145: Minnesota Overturns Felony Rape Charge

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Episode 144: Mary Byler - From Amish Survivor to Army Thriver

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Episode 143: Alex-The Hero Who Disclosed Abuse to Jimmy and Clara

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Episode 142: Should Kids Be Taught About Abuse In School?

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Episode 141: How to Identify Men Preying on Young Women

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Episode 140: Being Deception Illiterate Fuels Abuse

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Episode 139: Where Was the RZIM Board for the Past 3 Years?

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Episode 138: The Devil Inside, My Book on Keeping Kids Safe From Abuse

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Episode 137: Pennsylvania Once Again Fails Child Sex Victims

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Episode 136: Rena Hobbs on Why Churches Cover Up Abuse

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Episode 135: Tackling COVID Crises

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Episode 134: Janitta Nichols on Ending Generational Abuse

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Episode 133: When To Avoid Mean People

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Episode 132: Abusers are Hunters

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Episode 131: Healing for the Holidays

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Episode 130: Why Don't We Require Anything From Abusers When God Does?

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Episode 129: Is It Unfair to Label Sex Offenders at Church?

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Episode 128: The Pain of Loss

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Episode 127:The Most Asked Questions We Receive

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Episode 126: Questions to Ask References of Preaching Candidates

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Episode 125: Interview Questions to Screen Pastors

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Episode 124: Why We Need More Abuser Databases

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Episode 123: Megan and Dom Benninger of BaptistAccountability.org

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Episode 122: Megan and Dom Benninger of BaptistAccountability.org

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Episode 121: Diagnosing Your Church's Health

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Episode 120: Wade Mullen's New Book, Something's Not Right

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Episode 119: Ravi Zacharias and the Adoration of Abusers

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Episode 118: Does Posting Online Save Children From Abuse?

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Episode 117: Christa Brown Discusses Databases for Abusers (Part 2)

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Episode 116: Christa Brown on Stopping Baptist Predators (Part 1)

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Episode 115: "Hell Hath No Fury" Judge Aquilina Discusses Larry Nassar's Letter (Part 2)

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Episode 114: Judge Aquilina Talks Abuse Prevention (Part 1)

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Episode 113: Inmate Released Due to COVID Murders His Victim

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Episode 112: Is the Shortage of Ministers Fueling Abuse?

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Episode 111: Five Things Leaders Must Do When Allegations of Abuse Arise

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episode 110: Where Are the Pedophiles During COVID?

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Episode 109: Interview With Sandy Phillips Kirkham (Part 2)

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Episode 108: Interview With Sandy Phillips Kirkham (Part 1)

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Episode 107: Is There Any Meaning After Abuse?

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Episode 106: How Do We Begin To Trust Again (Part 2)

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Episode 105: How Do We Begin To Trust Again? (Part 1)

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Episode 104: Do Children Know When Things Aren't Right?

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Episode 103: Can Abuse Survivors Expect Closure?

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Episode 102: How Spouses of Abusers Can Heal

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Episode 101: What Spouses of Abusers Are Going Through

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Episode 100: Boz Tchividjian Addresses Abuse During Quarantines

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Episode 99: Stay Home, Lose Lives

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Episode 98: What about people who can't wear masks?

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Episode 97: Supportive VS Non-Supportive Communities

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Episode 96: Abusers Should Be Embarrassed For What They've Done

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Episode 95: Feeling Guilty For Doing Well

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Episode 94: Positive Ways Social Distancing Is Changing Church

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Episode 93: The COVID-19 Increase In Child Abuse and What You Can Do

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Episode 92: COVID-19 Tips for Finding Babysitters for Working Parents

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Episode 91: Advocates Attacking Advocates

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Episode 90: 5 Reasons People Don't Warn Others of Abuse

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Episode 89: Kelly Haines Takes a Break From Advocacy

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Episode 88: Burnout Among Advocates

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Episode 87: Joe Scorsone-Preventing Abuse Through Music

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Episode 86: Talking To Kids About Abuse In School

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Episode 85: Laura Dunn Talks Title IX and How It Applies to K-12

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Episode 84: The Cost of Being Abused

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Episode 83: Abuse In Schools and Troubling Stats

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Episode 82: Guest Katie Talks About Triggers

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Episode 81: Principles To Guide Policies For Sex Offenders At Church

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Episode 80: What Is the SBC Thinking With This Policy?

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Episode 79: Abuse Survivor Helen Maidenrath Talks About Triggers

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Episode 78: What are the fruits of repentance for a predator?

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Episode 77: "Why did it take so long to speak up?"-a response

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Episode 76: How Triggers Can Be Helpful

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Episode 75: Sitting On the Ash Heap

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Episode 74: How To Move Churches That Are On the Fence

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Episode 73: Five Things That Safe Churches Will Do

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Episode 72: Sensationalized Forgiveness

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Episode 71: Guest Erik Pedersen Shares His Abuse & Cover Ups In Australia

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Episode 70: Kelly Downing Shares Her Story of Cover Ups In the Mission Field

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Episode 69: Guest Shaun Doughterty Discusses Senator Folmer's Child Porn Charges

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Episode 68: Is Abuse On the Rise? (Part 2)

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Episode 67: Is Abuse On the Rise? (Part 1)

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Episode 66: Bad Tweets-SBC Leaders at It Again

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Episode 65: The Power of Community

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Episode 64: Tells of Abusers (Part 2)

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Episode 63: Myths and Tells of Abusers (part 1)

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Episode 62: Church Decline and Some Great News About It

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Episode 61: Seven Tips for Churches To Help Survivors of Abuse

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Episode 60: Introducing Patreon to This Podcast!

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Episode 59: When Ripple Effects are Good

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Episode 58: Confronting Abusive Leaders

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Episode 57: SBC, Laws That Protect Abusers, and Hope

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Episode 56: Watchmen-How Do We Warn Others About Abusers?

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Episode 55: Do Abusers Repent?

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Episode 54: How Do WE Sort Wolves and Sheep?

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Episode 53: Sorting Sheep and Wolves

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Episode 52: What Does Jesus Do to Protect From Abusers?

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Episode 51: John's Salty Introduction to Jesus

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Episode 50: Jesus' Mission to Rescue the Oppressed

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Episode 49: Faulty Foundations-God's Foundation Matters

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Episode 48: Abusers Create Opportunities, Not Look for Vulnerabilities

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Episode 47: Where Are All the Safe Churches?

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Episode 46: Survivors Descend on Vatican & J.D. Greear's Announcement

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Episode 45: The SBC Abuse Scandal and Enabling Cultures

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Episode 44: Interview with Christine Parker of PorchSwing Ministries

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Episode 43: The Inner Turmoil Family Member of Abusers Feel

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Episode 42: "Obeying Your Leaders" Is a Bad Translation of Heb. 13:17

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Episode 41: Victims of Abuse Are Not "Too Emotional"

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Episode 40: Guest Abbie Schaub Talks About The Keepers

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Episode 39: Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare

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Episode 38: Guest Joe Capozzi Talks "A Peloton of One"

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Episode 37: Jesus Preached Repentance, the Heart of the Gospel

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Episode 36: Repentance Is Central to Forgiveness

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Episode 35: The Gift of Forgiveness

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Episode 34: The Purpose of Unforgiveness

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Episode 33: Forgive As the Lord Forgives (a sermon)

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Episode 32: Abusers Are Dangerous (The Bible Says So)

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Episode 31: Where the Church Is Headed and What Needs to Happen

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Episode 30: Personal Updates and PA Senate Bill Fail

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Episode 29: Guest Mary DeMuth Discusses 7 Deadly Friendships

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Episode 28: Our Experience Rallying With Abuse Survivors

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Episode 27: Leaders--Give Parents a Fighting Chance, Part 2

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Episode 26: Leaders--Give Parents a Fighting Chance

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Episode 25: Which Way Will the Pendulum Swing?

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Episode 24: Shaun Dougherty Unpacks the PA Grand Jury Report

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Episode 23: Jules Woodson on the Impact of Speaking Out

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Episode 22: Abuse Is Never the Survivors' Fault

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Episode 21: From Victim to Survivor

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Episode 20: Survivors are Worthy!

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Episode 19: Help! (Nobody else will)

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Episode 18: Castaways--Believers Who Have No Church to Call Home

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Episode 17: Cialdini's 6 Principles of Persuasion, Part 2

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Episode 16: Cialdini's 6 Principles of Persuasion, Part 1

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Episode 15: How Would You Respond to This Application Letter?

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Episode 14: Don't Mistake Feelings for Facts

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Episode 13: From Survivor to Thriver: The Impact of One Voice

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Episode 12: The Emotional Impact of Narrative

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Episode 11: Why Narrative Is Important for Abusers

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Episode 10: How Abusers Prey On Our Belief System

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Episode 9: The Weaknesses of Red Flag Behaviors

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Episode 8: Why So Many Wives Support Abusive Husbands

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Episode 7: Another reason we "miss it": Socially skilled abusers

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Episode 6: Abuse in plain sight

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Episode 5: Processing Grief

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Episode 4: The Storm Continues

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Episode 3: The Storm After the Calm

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Episode 2: Reporting Should Be Easy but It's Actually Devastating

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