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helps pay the bills of the series. Now, on to the episode. All right, so we've got another guest, just like we've

been doing for the last few episodes, crossing over with some like-minded podcasters and

like-minded podcasts who are touching on church abuse and clergy abuse in different circles.

We're doing the Reformed in Doug Wilson circles, although it spreads further than that.

And we've got somebody who's doing it in another realm.

So if you can introduce yourself, introduce your series, and we'll go on from there.

Yeah, my name is Eric Skritsynski, and I started a podcast called Preacher Boys in January of 2020, really started out documenting solely abuse with an independent fundamental Baptist churches, which is a denomination, although they would deny that, it's a denomination of extremely conservative,

you know, King James only Baptist conservative.

So it's a, it's a relatively small denomination.

I think the Huffington Post once said it was like 1% of the US population, but 1% of that population is still pretty sizable.

And within that percentage, there are a ton of people who have been abused and a lot of leadership that has abused and been covered up for.

And so I started reporting on that through the show, interviewing

survivors, similarly to what you're doing with your show in the Doug Wilson kind of circle.

And yeah, over the years, I've just come across more and more stories and have noticed that,

you know, there's people in the Southern Baptist Convention that have had similar experiences.

There's people in other evangelical sects that have had similar experiences. There's people in other evangelical sects that I've had similar experiences.

And so now my horizon has really broadened to cover just abuse and religious fundamentalist environments

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