Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. My name is Eric Skorsensky. I am a former fundamentalist who is now shedding light on the dark side of the church, from the pulpits to the pews. Today is a doozy of an episode. There are some really heavy headlines that I'm going to be unpacking in just a moment. But first, I want to say thank you so much for listening to this episode, whether you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or if you're watching over on YouTube, I really, really appreciate it. Your support means the world to me. And just two more things before I get into the main episode. One, there are two incredible projects I'm working on in the background that I can't talk about just yet for a variety of reasons, but they're really exciting. It's some of the most exciting

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a story of rape, I don't want to have to say grape. I don't want to have to, you know, obscure

when I'm talking about sexual assault because it makes it more eligible to be monetized.

Like, I want to be able to give you guys the facts, plain and straight, unedited, unfiltered. And again, to be able to keep doing that on YouTube, you know, that's made possible by people's support because it's not coming through YouTube. I can tell you that. So anyway, that's just, just some thoughts there. Let's go ahead and get into some of the headlines from

the past month. It's March 1st, 2026, and I want to walk you through some of the most disturbing

headlines connected to Baptist churches and institutions in the month of February. As always,

this episode has two purposes. First, I want to catch you up on these major stories that you might

have missed. And second, I hope the sheer volume of these stories leads to a bigger conversation.

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