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Faith, Fitness, Ambition. Follow me on Instagram @rachel_byrdd
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What do Christians believe? And why do they care so much that you believe it to? Join me as I interview thoughtful and interesting Christians and non-Christians in attempt to search for truth, meaning, connection, and even joy.
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Welcome to IndoctriNation: A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from systems of control.
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Welcome to the Black Menaces Podcast! Join hosts Nate Byrd and Rachel Weaver as they discuss life, social issues, and general Menace Activity! Offering a perfect mix of wit, personality, and serious discussion of relevant issues, Nate and Rachel are guaranteed to leave you smiling and well-informed. For anyone looking to join the Menace Movement, this is your Podcast! Email your questions and Menace Moments to blackmenacespodcast@gmail.com BMP Theme Music by: Ethan Gifford
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Welcome to Head-Royce Voices, an alumni podcast produced by Head-Royce School. Each episode will be hosted by different members of the Head-Royce family and you will hear conversations with our past students and teachers sharing their remarkable histories of their time at our school.
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive Bonus Episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:https://www.patreon.com/indoctrinationRachel dives deep into the concept of DARVO - Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender - a term that sheds light on the manipulative tactics often used by abusers to deflect blame and underm…
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Asian American Apostate w/R. Scott Okamoto
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R. Scott Okamoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American author, musician, and college professor from Pasadena, California. Scott is the host of the Chapel Probation podcast and the author of the new book, "Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University." His work provides a wry and ironic insight into how…
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Abuse, Betrayal, and Transformation w/Christa Brown
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Named as one of the "top 10 religion newsmakers" of 2022 today’s guest, Christa Brown has persisted for two decades in working to peel back the truth about clergy sex abuse and coverups in the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. She was one of the first to go public with substantiated child molestation allegat…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive Bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this insightful solo Bonus episode, Rachel delves into the pervasive issue of victim blaming within various contexts, including new-age thinking, large group awareness training, the self-help movement…
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The Hope In Our Scars w/Aimee Byrd
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Aimee Byrd is an author, speaker, blogger, and podcaster. She has written several books including Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and Sexual Reformation. Her latest work, The Hope In Our Scars peels back the Christian church’s underlying and pervasive theology of power, to face the shame that lurks there. Having trodden her own path…
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Surveillance and Salvation w/Elle Hardy
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Elle Hardy is an Australian-born journalist mostly based in New Orleans. She has covered stories from every continent on earth, from North Korea to the backwoods of Alabama.Her writing credits include The Guardian, The Times, GQ, Vice, and more. Elle also appeared alongside Rachel, in the documentary Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed, which uncovered …
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this insightful bonus episode, Rachel delves into the complexities of life after leaving a cultic group or controlling relationship. She discusses the common challenges faced by survivors as they navi…
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Paradise Undone w/Annie Dawid
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Annie Dawid is an award-winning author and professor who teaches creative writing at University College, of Denver. She is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Her latest novel PARADISE UNDONE: A NOVEL OF JONESTOWN is a historical fiction of the infamous tragedy that took place in Guyana …
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Another Gospel w/Joel Looper
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Joel Looper is an adjunct professor at Baylor University and the author of the new book, Another Gospel: Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity in which he offers his fellow evangelicals a unique theological argument for resisting Christian nationalism. Using church history, Scriptural reasoning, and even analysis of Russian C…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this solo bonus episode, Rachel shares her insights into the disturbing world of the 7M TikTok cult popularized in the recent Netflix documentary "Dancing For The Devil" Led by Robert Shin, this group…
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Coercion Confession and Control w/Daniel Schricker
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Daniel Schricker is a composer and writer based in Adelaide, Australia. He completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Adelaide, being awarded a PhD in 2020. In addition to his doctoral research in music composition, his academic interests include cults and fringe religious organizations. Some of his recent writings explor…
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Happy, Holy, Hell w/Stacie Stukin & Phillip Deslippe
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Returning guests, Stacie Stukin and Phillip Deslippe are joining the show once again to speak about their newest investigative piece on the troublesome boarding schools of the 3HO community.Stacie Stukin is an arts and culture journalist from Los Angeles. She was a contributing editor at Yoga Journal and has also written about yoga for the Los Ange…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this continuation from a previous bonus episode, Rachel explains how mantras and repetitive meditations can both heal and harm. She shares her insights by exploring the work of Elizabeth Clare Prophet…
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All The Scary Little Gods w/Natalie Hoffman
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Natalie Hoffman is the author of Is it Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage: A Christian Woman's Guide to Hidden Emotional and Spiritual Abuse and her recent memoir All the Scary Little Gods. Natalie is also the host of the Flying Free podcast. She is a mother, grandmother, educator, and passionate advocate for women of faith in abusive home…
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Hurt & Healed By The Church w/Ryan George
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Ryan George spent the first 20 years of his life in a cult, attending a series of Independent Fundamental Baptist churches including one where his dad was the pastor, whose word was the ultimate authority. It wasn’t until Ryan was confronted with the truth that his father was a serial sexual abuser hiding his sins behind Bible verses, that Ryan rea…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this episode, Rachel dives into the life and influence of Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant. Rachel recounts her early encounters with the group and shares a c…
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A Well Trained Wife w/Tia Levings
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Returning guest, Tia Levings writes about the realities of Christian fundamentalism, evangelical patriarchy, and religious trauma. She is also a podcaster, speaker, and content strategist. She’s been quoted in Salon, the Huffington Post, and Newsweek, and appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in Jacksonville, Florida she…
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Religious Extremism in Schools w/Jonathon Sawyer
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Returning guest, Jonathon Sawyer is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Working with the National Education Policy Center, Jon researches public and private education. Through his in-progress dissertation, Jon explores pressing tensions between the right to religious freedom and the separation of church and state, focusing on t…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:https://www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this solo bonus episode, Rachel shares her insights on the harrowing experience of testifying about abuse in a courtroom. Rachel discusses the re-traumatization many survivors face when confro…
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Surviving The Program w/Diana Nowak
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Diana Nowak is a survivor of the infamous troubled teen institution known as The Academy at Ivy Ridge. She is featured in the recently released Netflix docuseries The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping which specifically covers The Academy at Ivy Ridge. The series directed by Katherine Kubler exposes the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen …
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Spiritual Sleight Of Hand w/Tiffany Yecke Brooks
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Tiffany Yecke Brooks is the author of the new book Holy Ghosted: Spiritual Anxiety, Religious Trauma, and the Language of Abuse which equips readers to understand and name tactics of spiritual abuse and manipulation. Each chapter covers a different method of control found in toxic religious communities--including legalism, indoctrination, praise, a…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:https://www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this special bonus episode, Rachel dives deep into the dark and often hidden world of children’s television. Inspired by the recent docuseries "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV," she exp…
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Cult Trip w/Anke Richter
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Anke Richter is an international journalist and author based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Before immigrating there with her family in 2003 she was a magazine writer, TV producer, and, business reporter in Germany. Anke has covered everything from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake to the 2019 mosque attack and has traveled widely in the South Pacifi…
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Escaping A Kingdom Of Darkness w/Judith Castillo
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Judith Castillo is a passionate and determined PhD student at the University of Houston, where her academic focus is on Latino and Women’s studies. Her journey into academia is deeply intertwined with her personal experiences as a survivor of the La Luz Del Mundo cult.Forced into marriage at the tender age of 15 to a member of the cult's leadership…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationThis special Patreon exclusive bonus episode with Andrew Pledger was recorded for Andrew’s Beyond BJU podcast which will be released later this summer, but we wanted to offer our Patreon supporters early access as a thank-yo…
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