The Skeptic Pastor Podcast

By Jeremy SteeleReligion & Spirituality Education History

The Skeptic Pastor Podcast episodes

October 18 Raised in a Single-Family Cult: Stella McCormick on Deliver Us From Mother
Stella McCormick was raised in what she calls a single family cult: a homeschooled, high control evangelical household where her mother controlled what the children were allowed to feel, learn, and know. In her memoir, Deliver Us From Mother: Faith, Fear and the Family Cult That Broke Me, she names that system and tells the story of getting out.
Stella talks with Jeremy about finding Steven Hassan's BITE model and checking off behavior, information, thought, and emotion control one by one, about the nightly spanking circles justified by James Dobson and To Train Up a Child, and about how the control followed her all the way to Army boot camp. Now a U.S. Army sexual assault victim advocate and Navy reservist whose doctoral research focuses on juvenile re-offending, she also talks about therapy, going no contact with her parents, and what recovery looks like on the other side.
Content note: this episode discusses sexual violence and family violence.

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35 min
September 27 Love Is Patient. It Is Also Pissed About Injustice.
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43 min
August 27 God Told Him to Check the Yellow Pages
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34 min
August 14 Horse Manure, Hospital Trips, and Other Youth Group Activities
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46 min
August 10 What If Communion Passes the Turing Test?
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42 min
July 26 The Rapture, the Closet, and the Organ
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38 min
July 21 The Bible's Biggest Skeptic Might Be Its Best Disciple
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23 min
July 06 33 Churches Later... He Actually Wanted to Go Back
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29 min
June 29 When the Pastor Was the Predator: One Woman's Deconstruction Story
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39 min
June 22 Conversion Therapy Droupout
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58 min

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Join me for a drink and an unpopular opinion, uncomfortable truth, or something pastors probably aren't supposed to say out loud. Expect irreverent humor, unfiltered language, and honest conversations…