On this episode, Sadie and Gavi take a deep dive into fundamentalist hate preacher Peter Ruckman, his bizarre autobiography, his multiple marriages, and his theology, which was extreme even for IFB standards.

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TW: In general we talk about a lot of potentially triggering topics on this show, including but not limited to suicide and mental health, racism, misogyny, PTSD and PTSD symptoms, child abuse, mental, physical, and sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse including guilt, shame, and fear. In most episodes we’ll mention at least a few of these topics, but we try very hard to avoid graphic detail unless it’s relevant to the story we’re telling, and we do our best to give the audience a heads-up before going into detail on any of these topics. This episode will contain SO MUCH RACISM. Most of the time, I’ve chosen not to include direct quotes, because it’s honestly that bad. There’s one section where I’m going to read some lightly censored quotes, and I’ll give you the heads up before I do. There’s also some generalized misogyny, victim blaming of ex-wives, and Ruckman describes two different suicide attempts very callously. We won’t read his exact words to attempt to mitigate harm for listeners.

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