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001-B, Tracey's Interview on IWATF: "Was Keith Green a Cult Leader?"

001-B, Tracey's Interview on IWATF: "Was Keith Green a Cult Leader?"

FromFeet of Clay—Confessions of the Cult Sisters


001-B, Tracey's Interview on IWATF: "Was Keith Green a Cult Leader?"

FromFeet of Clay—Confessions of the Cult Sisters

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Length:
81 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This is a REPEAT of Tracey’s guest appearance with hosts Brian McDowell and Troy Waller on their podcast I Was a Teenage Fundamentalist,  Episode #072: “Was Keith Green a Cult Leader?” (Keith Green Part 1)   https://www.iwasateenagefundamentalist.com/They’ve  generously allowed us to share this interview here as a convenience to our listeners.  Enjoy! Don’t miss Tracey’s  brief discussion with Sharon, talking about the unexpected feelings she faced after doing this interview on IWATF.   Our episode #1 here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12713444SHOW NOTES FROM IWATF #072:“Keith Green was one of CCM’s most revered and loved music superstars of the 1970s and 80s. Spoiler alert! Tracey Phalen thinks he was a cult leader! She was a member of Keith and Melody Green's Last Days Ministries in the 1980s. She joined as a teenage fundamentalist and left after five years of living and serving on the Texas ranch. In this episode, Tracey shares her story and helps Brian and Troy deconstruct Keith Green and Last Days Ministries.”---Transcript of the episode is here.Podcast links: https://linktr.ee/iwatf"Feet of Clay - Confessions of the Cult Sisters" is a new podcast hosted by  Sharon Madere (Bennett)  and Tracey Phalen (Reed), who both worked alongside Keith and Melody Green at Last Days Ministries (LDM).  As one-time key leaders in the organization, they go on record about the spiritually traumatic and often damaging influences of the Greens and the multitude of materials (many of which are still available today) published through LDM, including 'The Last Days Newsletter'.  Sharon and Tracey each joined LDM as teenagers, where they met and married their respective spouses during those cult-commune years.  Both couples independently left LDM in 1987 and moved hundreds of miles apart.  They continued in their hard-held beliefs for over ten additional years, yet ultimately divorced in the early 2000s.  In this podcast Tracey and Sharon  come together to talk about their parallel journeys out of the cult mindset, the long process of unpacking indoctrination and spiritual trauma, and their separate but often co-mingled road to healing and  humor.   Come join them on the journey!https://www.instagram.com/feetofclay.cultsistershttps://feetofclayconfessionsofthecultsisters.buzzsprout.comWe love acronyms -- and we aren't afraid to use them! Here are some common ones that we might forget to explain:LDM - Last Days Ministries (organization) ICT - Intensive Christian Training School (at LDM)YWAM - Youth With A Mission (organization) CCM - Contemporary Christian Music
Released:
Apr 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (44)

Feet of Clay – Confessions of the Cult Sisters – What's it like to live in a Christian cult commune? How the hell do smart people get brainwashed into crazy beliefs and behaviors?  Tracey & Sharon share their parallel journeys into and out of Last Days Ministries, led by Christian music super-star Keith Green (and later his wife Melody Green).  Plus they interview others who also got out of high-control groups and toxic churches.   Arranged marriages?  Purity culture virgins?  Religious trauma?  Submission of women and misogyny? Child abuse?  Sexual assault?  Power hungry patriarchy?  Heinous homophobia? Christian nationalism and politics?  Yep, we touch on it all.  Hear stories of escaping evangelicalism, surviving spiritual manipulation, deconstructing fundamentalism and so much more!  Former cult sisters, now turned Exvangelical, tell all with humor and healing, compassion and comedy.