Trouble in Paradise | Why an IFB Teacher Gave Up Her Job in Hawaii

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

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

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Stephanie (Helms) Kittilsen joins your host, Eric Skwarczynski, on the podcast to talk about the problems in the IFB that prompted her to leave her job as a teacher in Hawaii(!).

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0:00.0	Hey, what's everybody? You're listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast that is devoted to exposing and shedding a light on abuse within the Independent Baptist Movement. On today's episode, I sit down with Stephanie Helms Kittleson. I've known Stephanie for a couple years now, and we talk about what led her to give up her job as a school teacher in Hawaii for an independent Baptist school. We talk about what led her to give up her job as a school teacher in Hawaii for an independent
0:23.2	Baptist school. We talk about our background in the independent Baptist movement. We talk about
0:27.5	her to work as a teacher. And we talk about what it was that prompted her to leave. It's an
0:32.2	awesome conversation. And I don't want to take any more time before we get into it. But I do just
0:35.9	want to say two things. One, if you like this episode, please, please, please, go to iTunes, leave a five-star review
0:41.7	and be sure to share this with your friends.
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0:46.9	Number two, I do have a way for you to support the project financially.
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0:55.7	you can find how you can support the Preacher Boys project. All right, let's get on with the show.
1:00.7	Stephanie, thank you so much for jumping on a call with me and doing a quick interview.
1:06.3	Yeah, I'm excited to be here. Perfect. So can you tell me what your introduction was to the
1:12.4	independent Baptist movement? Well, we had done Southern Baptist kind of churches when I was
1:19.8	growing up until my mom married my stepdad when I was like eight. And so we started going to
1:24.9	an IFC church in Texas. And I couldn't really tell any difference.
1:28.5	Like the kids program was way more lively than what I was used to.
1:32.6	But it just seemed like we're going to church.
1:36.3	It still says Baptist, so I did never really give any thought to it.
1:39.9	But we moved to Kentucky, and then we went to another independent Baptist church.
1:45.6	But it was really Bob Jonesy, I guess.
1:48.6	I didn't know that it was any different than anything I'd ever been to before.
1:53.1	And when I started like middle school, we moved to a little suburb of Lexington, Kentucky,
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