The Foundations of Abusive Environments | Ashley Easter

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

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

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Ashley Easter writes, blogs, speaks, and advocates for abuse victims. She founded The Courage Conference, an event that empowers survivors of abuse to fight for their healing while also educating church leaders on prevention and proper response to abuse. Ashley promotes truth-telling, advocates for gender equality, and educates churches on abuse. You can find her at www.AshleyEaster.com; www.TheCourageConference.com; Twitter: @ashleymeaster; Facebook: /ashleymeaster

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0:00.0	Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations.
0:06.9	Listener discretion is advised. Abuse is a symptom of a greater problem. Abuse is always motivated
0:13.3	by lust for power and control. So abuse really is the symptom of something else happening.
0:19.4	And those other things happening are grabbing power in the symptom of something else happening. And those other things happening are grabbing power
0:23.5	in the form of, you know, racism, in the form of patriarchy, in the form of homophobia, you know,
0:30.2	all those different things. Abuse is just the outlet, you know, just the symptom of all those other
0:36.6	issues. You are listening to the Preacher Boys know, just the symptom of all those other issues.
0:43.6	You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental,
0:48.5	physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.
0:53.9	The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors.
0:55.7	Not all legal outcomes are known or final. Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty
1:01.7	in the court of law. To find more information about the Preacher Boys podcast and upcoming
1:07.3	documentary, visit Preacherboys doc.com or connect on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter
1:14.3	with a handle at Preacher Boys Dog. Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski.
1:22.1	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. I'm so excited to sit down with Ashley Easter.
1:28.6	Ashley's done some amazing work. I was checking out her blog just before jumping on the interview and had really
1:34.2	just wanted to reach out and talk about some of the advocacy work that she's been doing. But first,
1:39.0	Ashley, can't just give me a little bit of context and give our audience some context about
1:44.1	your initial experiences in
1:45.8	the Independent Baptist Movement. Yeah. So thank you very much for having me on the show.
1:51.4	I'm been excited about this for a while since you reached out. And usually when I talk to people
1:57.6	about my story, I have to like give all the like acronyms and words and what
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