256: "Is it God's Will, or Dad's Will?" | Jessica Willis Fisher

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

Documentary, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Christianity

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Growing up the eldest daughter in a large, highly controlled, fundamentalist Christian household, Jessica Willis was groomed to perform and conform to her father's disturbing and chaotic teachings. Cut off from anything unapproved by her father, Jessica was persistently curious about the outside world, always wondering what was normal or potentially dangerous about her upbringing.

When the Willis family rocketed into fame after their appearances on multiple televised talent competitions in 2014, Jessica and her family landed their own reality TV show and toured across the globe, singing and dancing for millions. The world loved this beautiful family of kids; young and vivacious, the Willis's presented themselves to be extraordinary and happy. But the older and wiser Jessica got, the more she had to face that what was going on behind closed doors would forever be escalating.

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0:00.0	Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations.
0:06.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.6	Coming up.
0:09.9	There's a conflict between what my father, literally, specifically is professing to believe and teach,
0:15.6	and then he's doing some things that at least conflict with that.
0:19.5	We don't talk about it, so it's not like he's clearly saying,
0:23.1	sexually touching your daughters is wrong.
0:25.0	I'm doing it.
0:26.7	But you know that what's happening over here
0:28.4	cannot be called pure.
0:30.7	There were so many other hypocrisies in conflicts.
0:34.2	The way that we would present ourselves
0:35.5	all the way up to being on TV
0:37.1	versus what really
0:38.6	happened, you know, behind closed doors and getting in trouble for doing anything that would
0:44.0	break that outward testimony. And we were going further and further from that. We were no longer
0:49.2	going to church. We had this home church. When needed, it was, well, God's will. Why are we doing TV? Well, it's
0:56.3	God's will. Really? Or is it just dad's will? Yeah. You are listening to the Preacher Boys
1:03.6	podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the
1:10.0	independent fundamental Baptist movement.
1:12.9	The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the
1:18.2	survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final. Any suspect is presumed innocent until
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