45 episodes
Feet of Clay—Confessions of the Cult Sisters Tracey and Sharon
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4.9 • 68 Ratings
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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. Bi-weekly.
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039 - The Demise of Keith Green's Last Days Ministries Cult - Part 3 - A Tale of Two Letters: Sharon's Confession & Keith's Repentance (The First Era)
Kevin James - "It Was the 90's!" https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinjamesthornton/video/7226790780046806314?lang=en
Recommended (REQUIRED?) Viewing:
Jesus Christ Superstar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1bAgWsEORc
Brother Sun, Sister Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFgXxoEepnQ
Godspell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4xLOrpNbHM
Jesus People USA (JPUSA) general info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_People_USA
"No Place To Call Home" - Documentary about the abuses at JPUSA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V4G00Gl51c
https://www.instagram.com/feetofclay.cultsisters
https://feetofclayconfessionsofthecultsisters.buzzsprout.com
We 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 -
038 - The Demise of Keith Green's Last Days Ministries Cult - Part 2 - Keith Green Blazing Bright (The First Era)
Season 1 Episodes we reference:
"Was Keith Green A Cult Leader?"
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12748626
"Keith Green Arranged My Teenage Marriage" https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12748728
"A New Dawn - Keith Green's Foster Daughter Finds Her Voice"
Part 1: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12962275
Part 2: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12962632
"Keith Green Acres - Our Crazy Cult Commune 'Last Days Ministries'"
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13460453
"A 'Brother' From Keith Green's Last Days Ministries Cult: Paul"
Part 1: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13696464
Part 2: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13703698
"The Plane Crash that Killed Keith Green"
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13186307
Check out these 70's movies that impacted our generation!!!!
Godspell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4xLOrpNbHM
Jesus Christ Superstar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1bAgWsEORc
(SHARON SAYS JCSS IS A MUST WATCH!!!!!)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFgXxoEepnQ
"Via Doloros" sung by Sandi Patti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYbJINxRz6o
"The Green Pastures" 1936 Movie (the scene Sharon mentions is around minute 53) https://vimeo.com/519820208
Cool stuff from Karen Rohlf:
"Love It Or Change It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE-SHIUpFBU
Amazing online equestrian education: https://dressagenaturally.net/
Why You Should NOT Trust Us:
"Tracey & Sharon FLUNK an 80's Trivia Challenge"
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13546192
But Tracey DID get this one right: Justin Timberlake was in NSYNC, and they did the song Bye Bye Bye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-KmOd3i7s
https://www.instagram.com/feetofclay.cultsisters
https://feetofclayconfessionsofthecultsisters.buzzsprout.com
We 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 -
037 - Our Road Trip Back to the Texas Property of Keith Green's Last Days Ministries Cult (Unedited!)
JAMA stands for "Jesus Awakening Movement for America/All Nations". (Nothing new under the sun...)
The song we were (trying!) singing along to was "Elya" by Silverwind. It came up because we were going to reconnect with one of the members of the trio who was in the area that day.
Grublet's Cafe - an allowable indulgence in an otherwise bleak area of east Texas.
Agape Force - another "ministry" in the East Texas vortex, also plagued with later scandals (weren't they ALL?!?!?!) (But we DID appreciate Grublet's!)
Dukes BBQ off I-20 was great!
Sadly we did not have time to return to the YWAM "Journey Coffee House" - it would have been a LOT of fun to let them witness to us .
https://www.instagram.com/feetofclay.cultsisters
https://feetofclayconfessionsofthecultsisters.buzzsprout.com
We 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 -
036 - Grandkids, Groveling and the Greatest Love
Here's a link to the song by Avalon, "Testify to Love."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LYsUSdd0SI
https://www.instagram.com/feetofclay.cultsisters
https://feetofclayconfessionsofthecultsisters.buzzsprout.com
We 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 -
035 - The Demise of Keith Green's Last Days Ministries Cult (Part 1) ... Brought to You By Melody Green and YWAM
Previous episodes we mention:
The Plane Crash that Killed Keith Green
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13186307
A New Dawn: Keith Green's Foster Daughter Finds Her Voice - Part 1
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12962275
https://www.instagram.com/feetofclay.cultsisters
https://feetofclayconfessionsofthecultsisters.buzzsprout.com
We 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 -
034 - Bro’s and Ho’s..... AKA Our Little Bros Troy & Brian: We Were ALL Teenage Fundamentalists! AKA My Old Kentucky Home; AKA Talkin Bout the Cult of Keith Green & Melody Green; AKA Go Cowboys! AKA The Longest Podcast Episode Title Ever!
Okay there were LOTS of things referenced in this episode, hopefully we remembered them all for you...
Episode 33 We Discuss a Recent Interview with Melody Green
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/14418819
October 2023 Interview with Melody Green
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/keith-greens-story-with-melody-green/id1412479643?i=1000633195065
Episode 14, "The Plane Crash that Killed Keith Green" https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/13186307
Episodes 15 & 16 with Dawn Green (foster daughter of Keith and Melody) https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12962275 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078827/12962632
Cheers to Leaving episode about death
https://cheerstoleaving.buzzsprout.com/2020672/10974728-ep-21-dr-death
PLEASE don't visit these places in Kentucky unless you are there to mock and ridicule!!!
Creation Museum https://creationmuseum.org/
Ark Encounter https://arkencounter.com/
Troy recommends the book "Religion for Atheists" https://www.alaindebotton.com/religion/
We LOVE Flight of Conchords - music, HBO series, comedy specials - all of it! http://www.flightoftheconchords.co.nz/video/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Conchords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jLDZjMF3tk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJZfwDgNTM
You can be like Tracey & Sharon - become a Patreon supporter of IWATF!!!
https://www.patreon.com/IWATF
And we also LOVE Tim Minchin!!!
https://www.timminchin.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
https://www.instagram.com/feetofclay.cultsisters
https://feetofclayconfessionsofthecultsisters.buzzsprout.com
We 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
Customer Reviews
Memory Lane
Loved the latest episode and being able to virtually go along for the return visit to LDM and its surrounding areas. Brought back a lot of memories, good and not so good.
Favorite podcast.
Never thought a podcast reflecting on life and cults post-religion would be so enjoyable…
Sharon and Tracey have discussed a lot of topics that are timely for the American experiment, and also speak to me personally.
I am grateful for their courage to speak truth to power, to own their mistakes (even if they did make them in ignorance from within a high control group), and to set the record of 70’s-to-today American Christianity straight from their unique vantage point.
This is one of only a handful of podcasts wherein I have listened to every episode.
Their sincerity just stands out to me.
With gratitude, B
Such a great podcast
Having come from a Christian background/upbringing, so many things have resonated with me and I’ve experienced but not on the same level. So much value and so much truth being spoken through their stories.
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