Well, we’re back with another portion of an interview conducted this year. This is another portion of an earlier interview. This person, who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian church, talks about why it was difficult for children in this performance-based religion, the church politics that created such a system, the disruption caused by this system to her relationship with her family, and shame-based church disciplines. I know for me and my family, it was damaging to hear over the pulpit that there is no favoritism in God’s church and that partiality was a sin, and then to see it all around you not from the lay members but the leadership.
Approx. 16 minutes, voices have been altered.