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

My name is Eric Skritsky. As a former religious fundamentalist, I'm shedding light on the dark side of the church, from the pulpit to the pews.

But I'm not doing it alone. Each week, I'm sitting down with survivors,

advocates, authors, and more to uncover the inner workings of these abusive religious groups

to give tactical tips on how to escape and to find out what we can do to take them down.

You're listening to the Bridge Boys podcast. If you think that God's a wrathful person and he's just

out to get you, keep that to yourself, okay? I don't really want that kind of attitude around me,

because you're going to find things about me that you could put the hammer down. Life's hard

enough. We don't have to bring the consequences of people's actions. All right, God's going to do that. Life's going to do that. We don't have to be the consequences of people's actions. All right, God's going to do that,

life's going to do that. We don't have to be the judge of everybody that does what we think is

wrong. And this is hitting me just as more than any of you. I promise you that.

Over the past two weeks, I've received dozens of messages relating to Pastor Timothy Forgey.

Forgey served as the associate pastor and financial director at Liberty Baptist Church in North Carolina.

He also worked as a teacher, administrator, and middle school principal at the affiliated ministry, Liberty Christian School.

The messages I received all told a similar story, that ForG had died by suicide on May 20, 2025,

after being confronted about an allegation of sexual abuse involving a minor.

Given the way to those claims and the lack of a news article, police report, or any other

publicly available information, I decided to reach out to the pastoral staff at Liberty Baptist

Church to ask for clarification

on the story. Later that day, Pastor Scott Gray, who also happens to be 4G's brother-in-law,

reached out to me with his cell phone number, and we talked for about 20 minutes. When I asked

what he could share about the situation, he responded, I'd start with this, just the headache and

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