Trigger Warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.

You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent, fundamental Baptist movement.

The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from

the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final.

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Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski.

Thanks so much for joining me on the Preacher Boys podcast.

J.T., can you just introduce yourself

to our listeners and let them know a little bit about you? Yeah, I'm J.T. Langhorn, and I grew up,

IFB, actually with a great, loving family. And they were super supportive of me and everything

that I did. The hard part was in the IFB culture,

I don't think people were aware at the time, maybe still aren't. It seems like they still aren't

of how difficult it can be for kids to be, you know, taught some of these things that just put a lot

of fear and spiritual trauma and puts them into

that life. And so I was a fly on the wall for years at Highland Park Baptist Church, which is in

Chattanooga and Tennessee Temple High School grew up there, university. And the stuff that I saw,

it was really tough as I grew up to, to stay not jaded about a lot of the things that I saw.

And it was tough to deal with.

So when you say you saw a lot, I'm not overly familiar with Tennessee Temple.

And I know J.C. over at Recovering Fendimentalist, I know he, I think he's from Tennessee Temple,

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