Kitchen Table Cult unpacks all the things Kieryn and Eve learned at the kitchen tables of their childhoods in conservative Christian homeschooling families. Every week we take your questions and drill down on various topics about Quiverfull, the Religious Right, and our childhoods in high-demand groups (otherwise known as cults). We’re not surprised about the rise of Trump, Christian fascism, or evangelical white women voting for someone like Mike Pence, and we want to take you back through ...
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Join our family of Knights (Michael, Sean, Beverly, and Todd) , as we embark on our epic quest of discovery into the realms of conspiracies, current events, pop culture, music, and genuine nerdism.
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S6E12: Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
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Kieryn and Eve discuss the German family who sought (and were temporarily-ish granted!) asylum in the US to be allowed to homeschool their kids because Germany takes the rights and education of Children seriously.Show notes:https://tinyurl.com/romeikenotes This episode was produced by the lovely Mary Steffenhagen!…
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S6E11: Usurping Democracy with Bureaucracy
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Kieryn and Eve explain the updated policy agenda of the Christian right. We talk about the various tools Christian nationalists plan on using to usurp democracy regardless of who wins the presidential election this year. We dive into Project 2025, the little known and even less talked about Convention of States, and the bureaucratic mechanism at th…
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S6E10: KTC x The Amendment with Errin Haines
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Errin Haines of The 19th* News joins Kieryn and Eve to talk about the future of journalism, being a progressive Christian while covering the news, and the liberatory nature of Black Christianity in the US.Notes:https://19thnews.org/https://19thnews.org/topics/podcast/https://x.com/errinhaineshttps://www.instagram.com/emarvelous…
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S6E9: Apocalypse Child with Carly Butler
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Kieryn and Eve talk with Carly Butler about her memoir, Apocalypse Child, what identity abuse looks like for homeschooled kids, and how it feels to reparent yourself while parenting children. Pre-order the book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-child-carly-butler/20702732?ean=9781773861326Follow Carly: @carlymbutton everywhere…
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S6E8: Forager with Michelle Dowd
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Kieryn and Eve chat with Michelle Dowd about her fascinating memoir, Forager. What it was like growing up in the family of a cult leader and how wild it is to get out into the real world after growing up in the woods. Check out Michelle's work and get the book!https://bookshop.org/p/books/forager-field-notes-on-survival-a-memoir-michelle-dowd/18759…
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S6E7: As Goes The South with Read Freely Alabama
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Kieryn & Eve are joined by the organizers of Read Freely Alabama to discuss the attempt to censor LGBTQ materials in the Augauta-Prattville library and their efforts to protect the library as a community resource for everyone.Kitchen Table Cult Pod által
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S6E6: We Are All The Public Library with Eddie the Librarian
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What do censorship, homeschooling, intellectual freedom, and libraries have in common? We get into it today with Eddie Kristan about the fight libraries are seeing with parental-rights extremist groups trying to censor books and the impact that has on children's rights to access information. Show Notes:Institutions on the job: Freedom to Read Found…
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S6E5: Rift with Cait West
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Eve and Kieryn chat with Cait West about her memoir, Rift, and what it's like to leave fundamentalist Christianity only to discover that the patriarchy is alive and well in the secular world and childhood pastors became politically active Christian Nationalists.**Find Cait and buy the book!!**https://bookshop.org/p/books/rift-a-memoir-of-breaking-a…
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S6E4: Doing It For The Babies 2: IVF Bans and Mife
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What is the future of the pro-life movement without simplistic messaging focused on Roe v. Wade to galvanize conservatives? The nuances of reproductive health science and privacy laws are up for debate, and the unity that the pro-life movement once relied on is fissuring under the pressure to rally support around the details. Banning IVF in Alabama…
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S6E3: The Exvangelicals with Sarah McCammon
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This week in the Book Club, Kieryn and Eve chat with Sarah McCammon about her upcoming book (March 19) the Exvangelicals! We talk about gatekeeping knowledge, rampant anti-intellectualism, and how changing your religious beliefs change your relationships. You can take the church kid out of the church but you can't completely take the church out of …
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S6E2: Devout with Anna Gazmarian
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Kieryn and Eve are joined by Anna Gazmarian to discuss her debut memoir, Devout, which comes out on March 12, 2024. Growing up evangelical means growing up with shame much of the time. Add to that depression, anxiety, religious OCD, and bipolar, and you're in for a massive struggle of faith and self-worth.With Devout, Anna unpacks what worked and d…
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S6E1: Tradwives 2.0 Say Fuck Capitalism?
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Eve and Kieryn discoverd the Stay At Home Girlfriend/Wife /Tradwife tiktoks and note their remarkable similarity to the Above Rubies and quiverfull mommy/daughter blogs from the 00s, but with a dash of late-stage capitalism dread as a twist. What's the motivation behind people outside of religion wanting to choose this? Listen to find out!Notes:htt…
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S5E20: Mike Johnson Overview
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Kieryn and Eve try to overview everything we know so far about Mike Johnson, explain the general concept of Covenant Marriage, and discuss his wife's humurous counseling practice.Instead of posting 4 pages of notes, here's one link:https://tinyurl.com/mikejohnsonktcKitchen Table Cult Pod által
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S5E19: Counting The Cost
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Kieryn and Eve talk about Jill Duggar Dillard's book, Counting The Cost. How and why it felt different from Jinger's Becoming Free Indeed, and how difficult it is to escape high control environments when the stakes are so high. Also, for more info on Christian Zionism:https://kitchentablecult.com/2021/06/09/s3-e8-christian-zionism-with-amy-fallas-a…
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S5E18 The Woman They Wanted with Shannon Harris
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Welcome to book club, where Shannon Bonne, formerly known as Shannon Harris, joins Kieryn and Eve to talk about the writing process for her book, The Woman They Wanted. Shannon talks about embodiment, freedom, and following the joy after spiritual abuse.Links:https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-woman-they-wanted-shattering-the-illusion-of-the-good-chr…
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S5E17: Back To School Right-wing Extremism Edition
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Eve and Kieryn chat about the right-wing extremist pivot to taking down all public education institutions. We've talked in prior episodes about radical right-wing groups taking over K-12 education, and today we explain dog whistles of "clasical liberal" education and how even well-meaning leftists are furthering the agenda to dismantle public unive…
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S5E16: Disobedient Women with Sarah Stankorb
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Kieryn and Eve sit down with Sarah Stankorb to talk about her book, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning. Covering the origins of the #ChurchToo movement (featuring some friends of the pod!) and how to approach telling stories involving religious tr…
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S5E15: Fringe of the Fringe with Aaron and Christina Beall
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Eve and Kieryn are joined by Aaron and Christina Beall to talk about their experience leaving the christian fundamentalist homeschooling movement and shining a public light on abuse. Read the WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/christian-home-schoolers-revolt/Follow Aaron & Christina:https://www.instagram.com/apo…
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S5E14: Shiny Happy People part 2, with Cori Shepherd Stern
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Kieyn and Eve chat with Shiny Happy People producer Cori Shepherd Stern about how the documentary was made and why it's important to tell stories this way. Follow Cori:https://www.instagram.com/girlseeksworld/https://www.instagram.com/storyforceco/https://twitter.com/girlseeksworldKitchen Table Cult Pod által
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S5E13: Shiny Happy People
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Kieryn and Eve are IN PERSON and talking about Shiny Happy People and the evolution of sharing their stories as they heal through trauma. Contribute to the CRHE fundraiser:responsiblehomeschooling.org/donate Tell Amazon you want a season two of Shiny Happy People!Kitchen Table Cult Pod által
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S5E12: You're Not a Stepford Wife, Jing
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Eve and Kieryn discuss Jinger's book Free Indeed, on disentangling (not deconstructing) christianity from the teachings of Bill Gothard, and share a bit about their paths out too.Show Notes:https://people.com/tv/duggar-family-prime-video-docuseries-shiny-happy-people-trailer-exclusive/ https://mxdarkwater.com/2016/01/03/preparing-a-visionary-daught…
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S5E11: Parental Rights Extremism Part 4 With Carmen & Sarah
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Kieryn and Eve are joined by friends of the pod Carmen Longoria-Green and Sarah Jones to talk about the bit picture and the meaningful ways we can fight Parental Rights Extremism every day.Show Notes:https://www.foxnews.com/video/6324958910112 https://twitter.com/responsiblehs https://instagram.com/responsiblehomeschooling https://facebook.com/resp…
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S5E10: Parental Rights Extremism Part 3, A PAC is Born
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In the third part of the deep dive into Parental Rights Extremism, Kieryn and Eve connect the organizational and funding dots between the orgs working on limiting children's education today to the organizations that started it all in the 1970s.Show Notes:https://dayofthehomeschooledchild.orghttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/1995/11/religious-rig…
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S5E9: Parental Rights Extremism Part 2
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Hold on to your hats, Kieryn and Eve do a Deep Dive into the legal history of parental rights and what lays the groundwork for how children's rights are treated (or extremely not, as the case may be) in the US.Notes:https://web.archive.org/web/20150908152647/http://www.hslda.org/parentalrights/ https://parentalrightsfoundation.org/legal/parental_ri…
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S5E8: Parental Rights Extremism Part 1
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The first in a multi-part series we've been teasing about all season. We talk about Parental Rights Extremism and how to effectively combat the rhetoric that is banning books from schools and trans children from being able to be themselves without ceding ground to the extremists. Children have rights, parents have responsibilities. Show Noteshttps:…
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