Ep. 217: Aimee Semple McPherson Pt. 1

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

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

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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This is the first of a 2 part episode about Aimee Semple McPherson, a woman who was possibly the first ever megachurch preacher in the early 1900s. Her story is as incredible as it is scandalous. We hope you enjoy!

The Leaving Eden Podcast is a religious deconstruction podcast. The basis for this show is our host Sadie Carpenter's upbringing in an extreme and culty branch of christianity known as the IFB movement. We use this experience to discuss cults, religion, and christian fundamentalism.

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1:01.4	I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways.
1:07.4	Hi and welcome back to the Leaving Eden podcast.
1:12.0	I'm Sadie Carpenter and this is the show about my life in and escape from the Independent Baptist cult. In the show, we talk about the cult in which I was raised and
1:17.5	other cults, and we promote freedom of mind, freedom of thought, freedom of religion.
1:22.8	Today we are talking about a charismatic faith leader that was way more influential than I ever thought.
1:30.0	And I'm so excited to share her story with you.
1:33.0	I'm really excited to hear about this.
1:35.6	As soon as you started telling me about her, I thought that this was something that we had to talk about at some point.
1:42.6	And then we were like, okay, when are we going to schedule this episode? Then you're like, actually, there's so much. We got to make it a two-part
1:46.8	episode. So this is going to be part one of two parts. Make sure that you guys stick around and listen
1:53.5	to this story because this story is pretty incredible. Yeah. And making this a two-part was my
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