Inside Bill Gothard's Homeschool Cult | Emily Elizabeth Anderson
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Growing up, Emily Elizabeth Anderson had what appeared to be an idyllic childhood. She grew up in a standard Christian home, attended a private Christian school, and went to church with her family every Sunday. She accepted Christ as her savior at the age of 10 during a week-long summer camp. Like any young girl, she had many dreams. She wanted to marry my prince charming and move to Prince Edward Island and live there in a cottage on the beach with dozens of horses. Life seemed perfect.
But at the innocent age of 11, life took a drastic change. All that was safe and familiar to Emily was ripped away. Her family left their church and was soon thereafter torn apart. She quickly learned that her parent's marriage, which growing up appeared fine on the outside, was indeed incredibly unhealthy, and she came to the shattering realization that her mother had only been trying to keep things together for the sake of her and my sister. The dam finally broke and the true nature of Emily's father came out in full force. Over the next decade, she would have to suffer and endure abuse on many levels from his hands. The stress of it all caused her to develop an incurable and embarrassing illness called Crohn’s disease when she was just 13 years old. With this new diagnosis, all the picturesque dreams became a distant memory. From that point on, Emily's mission in life was simply to try to stay alive.
To give her a better education, Emily's mother started homeschooling her in 5th grade, and soon after they decided to join an internationally known “Christian homeschooling group”. She wouldn’t discover until over a decade later that this religious “group” was actually a Fundamentalist Patriarchal Christian Cult...
Read more from Emily by visiting thrivingforwardblog.com.
Resources mentioned:
When the Body Keeps the Score – https://amzn.to/2O5vacp
Recovering Grace – https://www.recoveringgrace.org/
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. |
| 0:07.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.0 | The first time I went to an ATI conference, I was 13. He was 76 years old, and we happened |
| 0:16.0 | to be walking opposite ways in a hallway, and he stopped me. and that was the very first interaction and he was |
| 0:22.7 | like instantly drawn to me and was saying how you have a beautiful smile and you have such a |
| 0:30.8 | bright countenance and I want you to work from my ministry. I was 13. You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, |
| 0:43.3 | physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:48.3 | The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective |
| 0:53.3 | of the survivors. Not all legal |
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| 1:17.5 | Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 1:21.1 | Hey everybody, thank you so much for listening to the Preacher Boys podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm so excited to have Emily Elizabeth Anderson here on the |
| 1:28.8 | show with me. Can you just introduce yourself really quickly and let people know a little bit about |
| 1:33.5 | your blog? Because that's how I got connected with you. Of course. Yeah. Thanks. Eric. It is such a pleasure |
| 1:38.5 | to be on here and to be able to talk with you. Yeah, I go now by Emily Elizabeth Anderson. That's my married name, |
| 1:46.1 | but you may have seen my maiden name, Emily Yeager, in some older news regarding the IFB movement. |
| 1:54.7 | I was a plaintiff in the Bill Gothard lawsuit, and I was under Jane Doe three, but then I later came out with my true identity |
| 2:03.1 | as Emily Yeager. In the last few years since I moved on from my involvement in the lawsuit, |
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