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.

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of the survivors.

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Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski. Hey, what's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Preacher

Boys podcast. Today's episode is one that I'm really excited about. I'm sitting down with

Angela J. Harrington. She is the author of The Incredible Book, Deconstructing Your Faith

Without Losing Yourself. If you haven't heard of this

book, if you haven't heard of Angela, you need to go check out the book and you need to go follow

Angela because the content, both in the book and in her day-to-day post, is so valuable and so

helpful for anyone who is on a journey of deconstruction. And look, I'm not going to lie,

I've had a couple conversations lately relating to the topic of deconstruction. And I know it's not

for everybody. I know there's some who skip these types of episodes or, you know, feel like it's

off track. But I just happen to know that for myself, and I know for many of you that are

listening, these are topics that are being talked about. These are things that you're thinking

about, you're experiencing. And the reason I wanted to have Angela on is because her book is such a

helpful resource for understanding the process of what it means to ask questions.

And I think in fundamentalist circles, so often it's easy to go through our day-to-day life

without ever questioning anything. Living in that black and white, rigid system made it so

easy to make decisions, but we never knew really why we were

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