Analyst Exposes Deceptive Tactics Used by Cedarville President

The Roys Report

Julie Roys

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.6 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Transcript Denial, bolstering, and transcendence. These are just some of the tactics used by embattled Cedarville President Thomas White in a well-known apology video, according to Dr. Julia Dahl, an image repair analyst. In this episode of The Roys Report, Julie interviews Dr. Dahl, who explains in depth how leaders and organizations spin the truth to fit their self-serving narrative. Dr. Dahl also analyzes a videotaped apology by Dr.

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0:00.0	She works as a medical school professor as her day job, but on the side, Dr. Julia Dahl is an advocate for
0:09.9	survivors of clergy sexual abuse, and her work as an image repair analyst is opening many
0:15.4	people's eyes to the lies that they're being told by those who want to cover up abuse in the church.
0:21.1	Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church.
0:26.3	I'm Julie Roy's.
0:27.7	And today I'm privileged to have Dr. Julia Dahl join me.
0:31.2	About 18 months ago, I first became aware of Dr. Dahl's work.
0:35.0	She reached out to me when I was in the middle of my investigation of Harvest Bible Chapel and James McDonald, and as I recall, Harvest had just released a statement saying that the church was dropping its lawsuit against me and the authors of the elephant's debt.
0:48.9	Now, if you follow this story, you know that the real reason is that the church had lost its motion to suppress information
0:54.8	that I'd obtained with a subpoena. This was very damaging information, and I'd already
1:00.5	published some of it, and it was becoming quite clear that if Harvest and James MacDonald
1:04.7	continued its suit, that it was going to hurt them dearly. But instead of admitting that the
1:10.3	church had dirty secrets that it wanted to
1:12.3	hide, Harvest said it was dropping the suits because it didn't want to, quote, knowingly subject
1:17.6	innocent people to the subpoena process. The church added that it would receive the court's ruling
1:22.5	as, quote, God's direction, and now the church could focus its energies on, quote, continued growth
1:28.4	and mitigating the damage such attacks bring to our church family and friends.
1:34.0	So maybe you hear a little bit of image repair in those comments, and I can tell you that
1:39.6	Dr. Dahl heard image repair in those comments, and that's when she reached out to me
1:44.0	and offered to do an analysis of harvest comments. And that's when she reached out to me and offered to do
1:45.2	an analysis of harvest statement. And that's when I realized how brilliant her work is. And what's
1:52.2	brilliant about it is that it gives labels and names to manipulative tactics that most of us can sense,
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