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Preacher Boys Podcast

The Difficulty of Recognizing Spiritual Abuse | Sherri Bothwell

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

Documentary, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Christianity

4.6701 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:07.3

advised. You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of

0:13.9

mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.

0:19.6

The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from

0:22.4

the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final.

0:28.9

Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. Define more information

0:34.5

about the Preacher Boys podcast and upcoming documentary,

0:38.2

visit Preacherboysdoc.com or connect on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter with the handle at Preacher Boys Dock.

0:46.6

Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski.

0:50.8

All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Preacher Boys podcast.

0:54.9

I'm so excited to have Sherry on the show with me.

0:57.7

Sherry, can you just tell me how you got introduced to the IFB movement and what your

1:02.0

introduction was really like to that world?

1:04.8

Yes, thank you so much for having me on, Eric.

1:07.1

I appreciate this opportunity so much.

1:10.1

I was introduced into the IFB at the young, very tender

1:14.7

age of 11 years old. I was a very fearful child and I was scared to death of dying and going to

1:20.5

hell. And they focus in on that. They really talk. The preaching is hellfire and broomstone right so I went from

1:31.1

already being a very fearful insecure child because we moved a lot when I was younger

1:36.6

and I didn't really ever have a lot of friends that lasted very long just just a lot of insecurity in my life. And so I was looking

1:49.7

for something that was going to help me not be afraid. And my parents were Catholic. And then

1:56.5

they wanted us in a Christian school because the public school was just not working out.

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