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Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

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

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Eric Skwarczynski, the host of the Preacher Boys Podcast, answers various listener questions.

01:18 – With talking to survivors, do you see any patterns in abuse, stories, or the overall culture in the IFB?

02:45 – What are you doing now to protect yourself emotionally as you navigate all these stories?

03:35 – What practices have you set up to help YOU in your journey of holding this platform/space for people

03:53 – How are you holding up when people tell you that you are wrong for doing this?

05:05 – I'd like to hear what sort of response you're getting, positive and negative. And what made YOU leave the IFB.

05:57 – Having left the movement (and, as such, a lot of friends with it, more than likely), with whom do you talk out held trauma and how do you find people to “understand”? Being in a partnership of marriage with someone who didn’t have the same up upbringing, DO you try to explain to give context? Do you ever lose that sinking feeling in the gut when you register the disgust and shock from someone else after you try to explain the abusive aspects of the IFB movement?

10:19 – How do you deal with the guilt or the fear of “what if something bad happens to me or my family because we left?” Or fearing that God might punish you if you leave?

11:40 – What are some dreams or hopes for the podcast down the road?

*link to the full story of why I left the IFB: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/preacher-boys-podcast/id1493726980?i=1000463244765*

Find more stories regarding the IFB movement by visiting:

preacherboysdoc.com

https://www.facebook.com/preacherboys...

https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc

Transcript

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0:00.0	Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is
0:07.3	advised. You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental,
0:14.5	physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. The testimony
0:20.1	shared on this podcast are told from
0:22.4	the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final.
0:28.9	Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. To find more information
0:34.4	about the Preacher Boys Podcast and upcoming documentary, visit
0:38.4	PreacherboysDoc.com or connect on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter with the handle at Preacher Boys
0:45.7	Doc. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsensky.
0:50.9	Hey, it's Eric from the Preacher Boys podcast. I'm so excited to start doing these solo episodes,
0:54.8	kind of answering some of the questions that I'm getting pretty commonly from all of you.
0:58.7	Thank you so much for the support of the show. We just hit 70,000 downloads, which is amazing,
1:04.6	and couldn't have done it without you guys. And I'm so excited to see all these stories
1:07.9	getting to make their way around the world. People's voices being
1:12.0	heard many times for the first time. And so I'm so thankful to you, so thankful to all the brave
1:17.1	survivors who have come on the show and share their story. And I'm excited to see what's going
1:20.8	to happen here in the future of the Preacher Boys podcast. Now, I have a couple questions I'm
1:24.6	going to work through that you guys have asked. I had a question thread in the Preacher Boys official discussion group, which if you're not in
1:31.2	already, you should be.
1:32.3	That's where a lot of the best conversations are taking place, even outside the show.
1:36.8	But here's a couple questions that were asked, and I'm going to go ahead and answer those for
1:40.5	you guys.
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