Bruce Gerencser | From IFB Pastor to Secular Humanist & Atheist

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

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

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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On this episode, your host, Eric Skwarczynski, sits down with Bruce Gerencser. Bruce lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 41 years. He and his wife have six grown children and twelve grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. He left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. He is now a humanist and an atheist.

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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
0:13.9	mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.
0:19.5	The testimony 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 Squarsinski.
0:50.7	Hey, everybody, you're listening to the Preacher Boys Podcast. What an amazing episode lined up today. I sat down with Bruce Guernser. He runs brucegernser.net. Bruce pastored in IFB churches for about 25 years, but he ended up leaving the ministry in 2005, and in 2008, left Christianity altogether. He's now a humanist and atheist, and he spends his time
1:12.1	writing a blog about his past and present life. He talks a lot about the insanity of the
1:17.4	Independent Baptist Movement. We talk quite a bit about that. He talks about playing whack-a-mole
1:21.3	with David Hiles. Every time he sticks his head up, he talks about some hearing whispers about
1:26.5	the Hiles' controversies early on in his ministry
1:29.6	and really just talks a lot about what it was like being behind the pulpit in IFB churches
1:35.0	and what eventually led to the burnout that him and his wife experienced back in the early 2000s.
1:41.6	Bruce is a very awesome guy. I could have sat down for hours.
1:44.4	He's a great conversationalist, almost as good a conversationist as he is a writer.
1:49.2	And that's saying something.
1:51.2	And he really just brought a lot of great perspective.
1:53.4	And he shared some things that were really startling to me that I had never thought
1:56.7	of before.
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