Unholy Spirits: Eric Skwarczynski on Darkness in the IFB

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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A Little Bit Culty – There’s a dark cloud hanging over the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement, and our guest today wants you to know about it. Eric Skwarczynski is the host and creator of the Preacher Boys podcast, which is a platform for survivors’ stories and the basis of an upcoming documentary film about a deeply disturbing pattern of sexual predation and abuse claims within the IFB. Eric joins us to talk about blowing the whistle on the IFB, what sucks about purity culture (hint: everything), and what it will take to create a sea change among current congregants, leaders, and pastors. He also gives us the scoop on his new podcast: Figuring it Out which currently features life advice from Shaq (!!!) Also be warned: This episode contains graphic descriptions of child abuse and other completely fucking horrifying stuff. It will disturb you, and probably make you pretty irate. It made us shakey mad and more than a little sick to our stomachs to research this thing. (What the actual fuck, IFB. Get your shit together.) Here’s Spirit of Fear, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram expose that was published in 2018, which we quote early in the episode. Support the ALBC Pod: This podcast thing is a labor of love, but we also like money just fine. By listener request from you magical beasts that download our show every week, we’ve made a link where you can support A Little Bit Culty with a one-time, weekly, or monthly contribution. Your support will be repaid in cosmic love and light. To make a contribution and help us keep this pod rolling, just smash this link. Other Semi-Important and/or Critical Things You Should Know: The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad. For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy “Anthony” Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Check out our Linktree to sign up for our mailing list. We’ve got some fun things coming your way soon. It rhymes with T-shirts. Okay, it’s t-shirts. – CREDITS: Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames Production Partner: Citizens of Sound Producer: Will Retherford Associate Producer: Jess Tardy Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts
0:04.1	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:08.1	Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion
0:13.2	and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization,
0:17.6	business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.8	Hey everybody, I'm Sarah Edminton.
0:31.6	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy.
0:33.9	And we just want to welcome you to season three of a little bit culty.
0:38.4	Once upon a time we were in a cult called Nexium.
0:41.7	We didn't know it was a cult when we joined because as a wise man once said,
0:46.0	nobody joins a cult. They joined a good thing.
0:48.5	For a minute it was a good thing. That's where we met, fell in love, got married,
0:52.4	started a family.
0:53.6	The stuff of story books.
0:55.5	Even the part where we woke up escaped, became whistleblowers and helped bring it all down.
0:59.6	You call that shitcho a story book?
1:01.3	Seeing the mastermind of Nexium get sentenced to 120 years in prison,
1:05.1	that's a story book ending if you ask me.
1:07.2	The whole thing was captured on HBO's Hit Docu series The Vow.
1:11.2	A new season is coming out any moment if it isn't out already by the time you hear this.
1:15.4	And I published a memoir called Scard, which is available anywhere books are sold.
1:19.6	And now we have a podcast.
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