What do they teach at Cult College?
Leaving Eden Podcast
Leaving Eden LLC
4.5 • 744 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Sadie tells us all about Hyles-Anderson College, the fundamentalist cult bible college that she enrolled in as an 18-year-old. We discuss the reason why a cult would want to have a college, the history of the school, what gets taught in classes at Hyles-Anderson, the school rules, and the predatory financial programs the school uses to keep students from dropping out or leaving.
02:00 - What do they teach you at cult college?
02:30 - Marriage and Motherhood degree
02:52 - Join the Patreon for all of the bonus content!
03:36 - Why do cults need a college?
04:30 - Hyles-Anderson College
04:53 - Listen to Sadie's interview on Preacher Boys Podcast with Eric Skwarczynski
05:05 - Jack Hyles
05:25 - Russell Anderson
05:55 - Other Christian Colleges were TOO SOFT
06:05 - Fundamentalism youth pipeline
06:50 - Boot Camp for Christian workers
08:15 - Business model of Hyles-Anderson College
10:00 - The IFB connection to the unjustified killing of Breonna Taylor
10:15 - HAC is unaccredited
15:47 - Thank you to all of our patrons!
17:12 - What is in the curriculum?
17:40 - YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR OWN BY JOBETH HOOKER
21:40 - Scum Manifesto
22:20 - Christian Womanhood
23:12 - Preparation for Marriage Class
23:40 - David and Jonathan
24:20 - Give your husband a standing ovation when he comes home or he will cheat on you with his secretary
26:54 - Other classes at cult college
27:30 - HAC is basically Sea Org/Scientology
28:40 - Bible Class
30:13 - Steven Anderson and the NIFB
32:45 - The rules of cult college
34:35 - Dress Code
38:40 - Demerit system
38:55 - Tiered justice system and nepotism
39:40 - Sadie almost got expelled!
41:40 - How are the rules enforced?
42:10 - The Jericho Plan
42:55 - This scheme is probably illegal
43:50 - The Bait and Switch
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| 0:00.0 | No rolling river of time. |
| 0:08.5 | You've healed me in too many days. |
| 0:15.3 | No regrets, no confusion. |
| 0:19.4 | There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways |
| 0:30.1 | welcome into the leaving eden podcast welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome and |
| 0:34.9 | sadie what do they teach you at Colt College? |
| 0:39.3 | How to sew curtains, how to ham your husband's pants, how to cook crockpot dinners, and how to lie back and think of England. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, I wish that were a joke, but no. There's a college class to teach you that stuff. |
| 0:56.2 | There's a degree program. |
| 1:00.3 | It's called a marriage and motherhood degree. |
| 1:03.0 | You can literally go to college, and they'll give you a degree in marriage and motherhood. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah, depending on how loosely you're willing to use the word college. |
| 1:14.7 | Today, we are talking about Sadie's time at one of the two cult colleges that she attended |
| 1:20.6 | while she was a Christian fundamentalist. |
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