Feet of Clay—Confessions of the Cult Sisters
Feet of Clay – Confessions of the Cult Sisters – What's it like to live in a Christian cult commune? How the hell do smart people get brainwashed into crazy beliefs and behaviors? Tracey & Sharon share their parallel journeys into and out of Last Days Ministries, led by Christian music super-star Keith Green (and later his wife Melody Green). Plus they interview others who also got out of high-control groups and toxic churches. Arranged marriages? Purity culture virgins? Religious trauma? Submission of women and misogyny? Child abuse? Sexual assault? Power hungry patriarchy? Heinous homophobia? Christian nationalism and politics? Yep, we touch on it all. Hear stories of escaping evangelicalism, surviving spiritual manipulation, deconstructing fundamentalism and so much more! Former cult sisters, now turned Exvangelical, tell all with humor and healing, compassion and comedy. Bi-weekly.
Feet of Clay—Confessions of the Cult Sisters
009 - Shiny Happy People, plus the Cult of Keith Green & Last Days Ministries and Bill Gothard & IBLP (could we make this title any longer?)
Tracey and Sharon talk about the documentary "Shiny Happy People" (Amazon Prime), and discuss some similarities between Keith Green & Bill Gothard, and Last Days Ministries (LDM) & the Instituted for Basic Life Principles (IBLP).
Link to "Shiny Happy People"
https://www.amazon.com/Shiny-Happy-People-Duggar-Secrets/dp/B0B8TR2QV5
Link to the song "Open Your Eyes" by Keith Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2ACyQGJUA
Link to song "Asleep in the Light" by Keith Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wKsIR5qlss
Link to 60 minute video "Keith Green Documentary: Your Love Broke Through" (In our opinion, more of a promotion that an true documentary!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nLRCIzNI5c&t=29s
Link to 10 minute video "LDM Information, Services & Product Promotionals" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CuPVBCpors
Links to quick videos about the plane crash Keith Green died in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZIriTiiJEI
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eUEuQhvzZk&t=51s
The Book "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=infidel+by+ayaan+hirsi+ali&i=stripbooks&hvadid=580696542841&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1026036&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6331993327747668942&hvtargid=kwd-6886221101&hydadcr=22566_13493360&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_5lp0dazlm1_e
"Feet of Clay - Confessions of the Cult Sisters" is a new podcast hosted by Sharon Madere (Bennett) and Tracey Phalen (Reed), who both worked alongside Keith and Melody Green at Last Days Ministries (LDM). As one-time key leaders in the organization, they go on record about the spiritually traumatic and often damaging influences of the Greens and the multitude of materials (many of which are still available today) published through LDM, including 'The Last Days Newsletter'. Sharon and Tracey each joined LDM as teenagers, where they met and married their respective spouses during those cult-commune years. Both couples independently left LDM in 1987 and moved hundreds of miles apart. They continued in their hard-held beliefs for over ten additional years, yet ultimately divorced in the early 2000s. In this podcast Tracey and Sharon come together to talk about their parallel journeys out of the cult mindset, the long process of unpacking indoctrination and spiritual trauma, and their separate but often co-mingled road to healing and humor. Come join them on the journey!
https://www.instagram.com/feetofclay.cultsisters
https://feetofclayconfessionsofthecultsisters.buzzsprout.com
We love acronyms -- and we aren't afraid to use them! Here are some common ones that we might forget to explain:
LDM - Last Days Ministries (organization)
ICT - Intensive Christian Training School (at LDM)
YWAM - Youth With A Mission (organization)
CCM - Contemporary Christian Music
