Trigger Warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.

You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.

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eric squarisinski all right rebecca thank you so much for joining me on the preacher boys podcast

can you just let our guests know who are who may want to get to know you a little bit more personally,

like who you are and how you first got involved with the Independent Baptist Movement?

Certainly.

My name is Rebecca Palmer, and I am an author.

I kind of fell into that after getting my degree from an independent fundamental Bible

college.

I was seeking to just be a better, kind of like, well, as ISB people would know being a missionary and wanting to tell others about

Jesus and your faith was a big push in ISB, but after I left, I was seeking to just be a better citizen of the world

and assisting people who don't necessarily share my beliefs.

With that said, I was involved in ISB because I was brought up as a child in the Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement.

My family got involved when I was probably four or five years old. We started

attending a Baptist church. They didn't designate themselves as IFB then. It was not until they got a new

pastor that was very Hiles-esque, I would say,

whereas the pastor we had before actually criticized a lot of the Jack Hiles way of doing things.

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