Greater Grace's Reckoning: The Report They Commissioned Themselves
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when you hire investigators to look into your own organization and they come back saying your top leadership needs to go?
If you're Greater Grace World Outreach, apparently, you publish the report and then do as little as possible about it.
The GRACE investigation was 172 pages. It named four leaders who should be removed. It described an authoritarian culture rooted in fear-based messaging and theological manipulation. It found that leadership had been involved in silencing victims and smoothing over allegations in ways the investigators described as consistent with a cover-up.
The church responded with a general apology that named no specific individuals who failed. They published a roadmap that referenced future leadership transitions with no dates and no commitments. Some lower-level ordinations were revoked. But the senior pastor, the missions director, the youth pastor, and the youth ministry director — all four specifically named — remained in place. Then the church resigned from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability while under governance review.
Elita Galvin has been watching every move. She started publicly investigating Greater Grace in 2023, well before the official process began, and now hosts the Looking for Grace podcast. She understands the investigation findings, the church's response, and the parallels to the IBLP system that our audience already knows from covering the Duggar family.
Oscar, joining us under a pseudonym, offers something different — the voice of someone who left two decades ago and still gets physically sick trying to process the report's contents. This episode is about what broke the silence, what the investigation revealed, and whether this institution is capable of the accountability the report demands.
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| 0:00.0 | Colts, Hidden Killers Investigates. |
| 0:04.0 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.0 | For decades, people were harmed inside Greater Grace, and many of them were told that their pain was their own fault. |
| 0:15.0 | Forgiveness meant shutting up. |
| 0:18.0 | Questioning a leader meant questioning God. |
| 0:20.0 | Speaking up meant losing everyone that you'd ever known. |
| 0:24.8 | Then a group of former members called the Millstone sat around a campfire and started telling |
| 0:30.0 | each other their stories. |
| 0:32.3 | That led to a years-long investigation, a major series in the Baltimore banner, and eventually a 172-page |
| 0:40.4 | independent report that said the church's top leaders need to go. Elita Galvin started her own |
| 0:46.4 | podcast work on Greater Grace in 2023 before any of the official investigations launched. |
| 0:52.0 | She now hosts Looking for Grace, the podcast, and continues tracking the story in talking to |
| 0:56.8 | survivors. |
| 0:57.4 | Oscar is also with us. |
| 0:59.2 | As our other guests joining audio only under that pseudonym, he left over 20 years ago. |
| 1:04.9 | But when the report came out, he could barely get through it. |
| 1:07.3 | A report that is now public. |
| 1:09.4 | Lawsuits have been filed. |
| 1:10.6 | A former pastor has been |
| 1:11.8 | indicted. The church recently quit an evangelical financial accountability organization while under |
| 1:18.2 | review. I wonder what that means. And the leaders, the report said, should still be removed. |
| 1:24.2 | Still there, allegedly. This is where things seem to stand as of right now. |
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