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Leaving Eden Podcast

Ep. 199: David Hyles' Book About Youth Work

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True Crime, Cult, History, Survivor, Theology, Exfundie, Religion, Lgbtq, Christianity, Exvangelical, Documentary, Fundamentalism, Baptist, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Deconstruction, Inspirational Women, Duggars, Inspirational

4.5709 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

(Alleged) Pedophile David Hyles wrote a book called "Successful Church Youth Work" in 1976. In this episode, Sadie reads this book and gives us the lowdown. We also discuss the recent death by suicide of David Hyles' close associate, David Baker, whose death occurred days after he was arrested for sex crimes against a minor.


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0:45.3

No regrets, no confusion, there'll be no pollution.

1:01.5

I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways.

1:04.8

Welcome back to the Leaving Eden podcast.

1:06.2

We are here.

1:07.2

We are your hosts.

1:09.5

My name's Gabrielle Ha Cohen.

1:13.5

And I am cult expert, cult survivor, Sadie Carpenter.

1:21.7

Today, we are talking about, I would call him like, he's like the R. Kelly of the IFB, the ditty of the IFB. His name is David Hiles. If you know who David Hiles is, you know who David Hiles is. If you don't know

1:29.1

who David Hiles is, I would strongly suggest you check out our first family of fundamentalism series.

1:34.1

He's not a good dude. No. In the 1970s, he was quite prominent at First Baptist Church of

1:41.0

Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, because his father, Jack Hiles, was the

1:44.8

head, the main pastor of that. And he was kind of the head pastor, the main guy in charge of the

1:51.4

IFB as a whole. Yeah, and I think people expected that Dave would follow in his dad's footsteps

1:57.0

until he did a whole lot of crimes. Yeah, and he was doing a lot of crimes while people

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