From a bombshell expose about Michael Tate and the Newsboys to a look inside the excessive lifestyle of Daystar TV's Joni Lamb, our 2025 podcast covered it all.

We also platform brave victims of America's most popular megachurches and movements who publicly told their stories

for the very first time. And you responded. More than 31,000 of you subscribe to our YouTube

channel this year, which had a stunning 8 million views in 2025. So thank you. Thank you for caring

enough about the state of the church to be willing to listen to the hard things.

It's not fun to hear that people you once trusted have betrayed that trust, or that a movement you

sacrificially gave to was built on a false foundation. But we're firm believers here at the Roy's report

that before you can fix something, you have to be aware that it's broken. And we don't

tell these stories because we hate the church. We tell them because we love the church, and we

passionately want to see her restored. So with that in mind, we'd like to look back at some of our

most popular podcasts of 2025, covering huge developments in the church and the Christian community.

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church.

I'm Julie Roy's. Here are the top five podcasts of 2025, beginning with number five.

Reporter who broke Michael Tate's story shares inside scoop.

Last summer, the Roy's report broke a bombshell story about Newsboy's lead singer Michael Tate,

whom you may also remember from his days at D.C. talk. Roy's report journalist Jessica

Morris spent two and a half years investigating allegations that Tate had drugged and sexually

molested numerous men over his decades in music. She also reported a woman's story who says tape drugged her

and then watched while a crew member essayed her. It was a horrific investigation, but one that

has cracked the code of silence that's permeated Christian contemporary music or CCM.

Now, more musicians are coming forward in the last week, singer Stacey Orico filed a lawsuit

against her former manager, claiming he essayed her as a child. Our initial reports on tape

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