There are quite a few ingredients that go into the Independent Fundamental Baptist stew, and I explain several of them in this episode as we inch toward understanding how a church like LBT could come to be.

Compelling testimony from the oldest son of an infamous member of the Longview Baptist Temple. Billy Bob speaks on growing up sheltered, wishing he were somewhere else, wanting to be like his dad, generally what life was like for a kid growing up in that church...all of it, of course, setting us up for part 2 and what he called "the heavy stuff."

What was LBT about? What was her claim to fame? What is it that really marks us as holy? It isn't what was coming from the pulpit of the Longview Baptist Temple, that's for sure.

I thought I had heard it all. And maybe you think you've heard it all. But you ain't heard nothing yet. The story Michelle recounts of how her dignity and value were slowly ripped away from her is simply appalling. This is a don't miss episode.

James takes the time to answer some listener mail. Is he just bitter? Why does he hate the church so much?

Part 2 of my conversation with Justin Rios. How he went from college student to teacher at LCA to assistant youth director to eventually having his eyes open and having enough.

First, some announcements, then a few words about what holiness really is, compared to how it was portrayed at the Longview Baptist Temple.

Justin opens up about his childhood, what it was like for him at LCA, bus route, then going to TBC and working at Super 1 Foods across the street. This is an insider look at the daily life of a teen in the teen department and a college student trying to work his way through scholl, and the system.

In which I take something Ricky Andrews said in the last episode and expand on it a little bit. What is the Christian faith about, anyway? And how does that contrast with what was practiced at the Longview Baptist Temple?

A conversation with Ricky Andrews about growing up LBT, paying his own way through high school, getting yelled at a lot, how much he owes to a single mom, and what kissing a girl will get you. This conversation swings from silly to somber and sometimes manages to walk the line of both.