Our guest grew up in a fundamentalist Seventh Day Adventist church and led a life of rebellion after she left it. High powered jobs and risky hookups shaped Melissa Duge Spiers before she learned that her father was a serial child predator shielded from the church, and thus began another stage in her reconstruction of self.

Let’s talk about her memoir; called “Holy Disobedience - Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One Knows”.

2:00 leaving the church 

4:00 leaning into the violent things

7:00 family predators and patterns

9:00 what is a “mass tort”?

13:00 how SDA primed her for abusive relationships

16:00 humor about sexual assault

20:00 a book event in Portland?

25:00 how to deal with social isolation

30:00 how to handle sex-repulsion feelings

34:00 opposition to her 

37:00 “Adventist Risk Management”

40:00 abusing a weiner dog! James Dobson

44:00 SDA vs Catholics

47:00 who owns the eatery?

50:00 atheism today and sex tips

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