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
017 - Chad Harris from "Shiny Happy People" and Bill Gothard's IBLP Cult
TRIGGER WARNING! This episode contains discussions and descriptions of ritualized child spanking, child abuse, spiritual abuse, sexual content and more. Listener discretion advised - and please take care of yourselves.
Tracey and Sharon talk with our new cult BROTHER! Chad Harris is another a courageous survivor of "IBLP" (Institute for Basic Life Principles), led by Bill Gothard. Chad was featured in the Prime documentary "Shiny Happy People." In fact, Chad is the handsome and articulate dude in the black shirt and red tie! In this episode we're also joined by Abigail Witthauer, who introduced us to Chad in the first place. (Go Abigail!)
Chad's TikTok, Twitter & InstaGram (not to be missed!)
https://www.tiktok.com/@archradish
https://www.twitter.com/archradish
https://www.instagram.com/archradish85
Our general discussion of "Shiny Happy People"
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13032097
Virgins & Volcanos - Purity Culture (Part 1 of 4)
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12790634
Abigail's Story (Part 1 of 3)
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13030650
Link to the documentary "Shiny Happy People"
https://www.amazon.com/Shiny-Happy-People-Duggar-Secrets/dp/B0B8TR2QV5
Abigail's TikTok (with lots of juicy cult stuff!)
https://www.tiktok.com/@unicornhabitat?_t=8d8e9yzzuNH&_r=1
Abigail's wonderful non-profit work with therapy dogs can be found here:
https://www.theroverchasefoundation.org/
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
