Atlanta Megachurch Pastor Arrested for Beating His Son with a Power Cord
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.5 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Content Warning: This episode discusses child abuse in detail and includes references to footage that is extremely disturbing.
This month, two major headlines ignited conversation around corporal punishment in Christian homes. In one case, an associate pastor from the well-known 2819 Church was arrested after police reports alleged he beat his son with a power cord—an incident investigators say left the child bloodied and bruised. In another, a Christian school teacher sparked widespread outrage after reportedly striking her own child with a belt 22 times in just 14 seconds, a brutal assault captured on video.
On today’s episode of the Preacher Boys Podcast, I’m joined by Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, authors of The Myth of Good Christian Parenting, to unpack these cases, examine the cultural and religious messages that allow this abuse to take root, and explore what healthy parenting can look like in faith communities.
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| 0:00.0 | Content Warning. The following episode contains explicit discussions of child abuse, |
| 0:04.9 | including graphic footage of violence involving minors. Please take care while listening and step |
| 0:10.6 | away if needed. This month, two major headlines ignited conversation about corporal punishment |
| 0:16.9 | in Christian homes. In one case, an associate pastor from the well-known 2819 church |
| 0:22.6 | was arrested after police reports alleged he beat his son with a power cord, leaving the child |
| 0:28.9 | bloodied. And in another, a Christian school teacher sparked widespread outrage after reportedly |
| 0:34.6 | striking her own child with a belt 22 times in just 14 seconds, |
| 0:40.3 | a brutal assault that was captured on camera. |
| 0:43.6 | On today's episode of the Preach Boys podcast, I'm joined by Marissa Franks-Burt and Kelsey |
| 0:48.3 | Kramer McGuinness, authors of the myth of good Christian parenting, how false promises |
| 0:53.4 | betrayed a generation of evangelical families. |
| 0:56.7 | Today we're going to unpack these cases |
| 0:58.4 | and explore the cultural and religious messages |
| 1:01.0 | that allow this abuse to happen |
| 1:03.0 | and discuss what healthy parenting can look like in faith communities. |
| 1:07.8 | Stay tuned to the Preacher Boys podcast. |
| 1:39.3 | Ain't nobody. communities. Stay tuned to the Preacher Boys podcast. Ain't nobody safe. Safe. In a Bible moment, oh, in a Bible moment, hell. |
| 1:43.3 | In a Bible moment. All right, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast, Kelsey and Marissa. |
| 1:49.2 | Thank you so much for taking time last minute to talk about these stories with me. |
| 1:52.8 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:53.5 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:54.2 | I know we talked just recently, and we talked kind of in the abstract of the stories of, you know, corporal punishment, |
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