My Mom Wrote a Book About Religious Abuse and Cover-Up... How Much is Based on Real Life?
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.5 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Grab a copy of my mom's book here*: https://amzn.to/4pGF6Vo
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
The man who taught him how to live was living a lie.
Scott Andrews was content to be a rule-follower, happily attending church and youth group while planning his future with his beautiful girlfriend, Cindy. He and his friends would change the world and be blessed by doing it. But when his mentor is exposed as a fraud, Scott’s life turns upside down. He’s forced to grow up, but unlike the man who betrayed him, Scott is determined to live honestly.
Lauren is a mistake. She’s heard it her whole life. But, on her eighteenth birthday, she gets a letter from the father she’s never met. It seems out of character. From everything she’s heard about her deadbeat dad, he never wanted anything to do with her. Lauren suddenly has a purpose. She will sit down with the man who left her when she was a baby and demand that he tell her why.
It's time for the truth to come out.
AUTHOR BIO:
Like many writers, I began as a reader. My favorite authors were those whose styles were realistic and relatable, so when I began creating my first novel in my thirties, I knew that, above all, I wanted my stories to connect with readers.
My first foray into writing was a book about the biblical character Ruth. I spent years rewriting and shelving the book before finally submitting it to Elk Lake Publishing. They loved the book, and helped me prepare it for publication. Now, my work of biblical fiction, Princess of Moab: A Novel of Ruth, is finished and ready to find its readership.
I also have a contemporary Christian fiction series called The Rose Collection. These timely novels spotlight healing after spiritual abuse. I keep my characters grounded in the real world, so while they grow, learn, and seek solutions, they must also confront the detritus of the past. I write what I know, whether firsthand or through close observation, infusing the joy, happiness, and humor that come with spiritual freedom and love. The Rose Collection goes further than the deconstruction of broken spirits to the reconstruction of rescued souls.
My non-fiction book, The Women Who Set the Precedents: An Exploration of the Bible's Bill of Rights for Women, is a deep dive into the prophecy of Bathsheba. Each chapter explores the life of a biblical woman as she embodies the principles of empowerment, intelligence, and spiritual maturity mentioned in the iconic, but often misapplied, last chapter of Proverbs.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. This is the very first episode of 2026. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm on my phone on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. And I actually flew out here to do an interview with a very special guest that I'll be announcing very soon. |
| 0:14.6 | But today's guest, the episode you're about to hear, is with Marbest Gorsinski. If that last name sounds familiar, it's because it's my own. |
| 0:22.2 | And it's because the guest is actually my mom. |
| 0:25.0 | My mom is an author who writes Christian fiction, |
| 0:28.4 | and she just re-released her first book, Plague of Lies, and a new edition. |
| 0:33.3 | And sent me a copy, asked me to read it, and to do an interview. |
| 0:38.3 | And I said, yes, yes. |
| 0:40.3 | And so she's joining me on the show today. |
| 0:42.3 | This book has been a really interesting one for me because there's so much that is drawn from my mom and I's actual experiences. |
| 0:50.3 | And so it's a heavy book. The first time it was published in 2020. I couldn't finish reading it. |
| 0:55.8 | It was just hitting way too close to home. Now I have read the book. I was able to have a sit-down conversation with her. There's so much we could have talked about. There's so much I wanted to talk about that we didn't get into. There's so much that we did talk about. I didn't expect to talk about and so I hope you enjoy this conversation it's a really really good one and be sure |
| 1:13.8 | grab a copy of her book, Plague of Lies. There's a link to it in the show notes of this episode. If you're a fan of Christian fiction or if you're just wanting to, you know, start parsing apart somewhat she talked about in relation to what you've heard me talk around the show and her journey she shares |
| 1:28.8 | here. It's so cold. I think my tongue just froze in the last sentence. It doesn't help that |
| 1:33.9 | I've had so much Nashville hot chicken and macaroni and cheese and barbecue that I can barely |
| 1:40.0 | walk, let alone talk in a coherent way. I am beat. I'm gonna get ready for this interview |
| 1:45.5 | that I'm doing live here in Nashville tomorrow. But for now, enjoy my conversation with |
| 1:50.6 | Marbeth Skritsinsky, my mom, the author, and today's guest. Let's get into it. Ain't nobody safe Ain't nobody safe All right, everybody, welcome. |
| 2:22.3 | Oh, in a Bible home. |
| 2:26.3 | All right, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. |
| 2:30.0 | How do you want me to introduce? |
| 2:31.6 | Mom, Marbeth, Mrs. Skorsensky. |
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