Ep. 218: Aimee Semple McPherson Pt. 2

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

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss Aimee Semple McPherson's alleged kidnapping, legal troubles, public reputation, and family struggles later in life.

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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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion.
0:18.0	There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways
0:30.0	welcome back to the leaving eden podcast uh welcome welcome welcome we are here we are your hosts
0:37.2	sadie carpenter cult expert cult survivor is with you as always my Welcome, welcome, welcome in. We are here. We are your hosts.
0:41.2	Sadie Carpenter, cult expert, cult survivor is with you as always.
0:42.3	My name is Gavi.
0:44.7	How is life today, Sadie?
0:45.4	How are you doing?
0:47.5	I'm hanging in there.
0:52.3	I mean, what else can be said for the rest of us is that we are hanging in there.
0:53.9	Truly we are. Today is part two of our two-part are hanging in there. Truly we are.
0:58.8	Today is part two of our two-part episode about Amy Semple McPherson.
1:03.9	So do you want to maybe give us a recap of what we talked about in part one?
1:12.0	Yeah, in part one, we were introduced to Sister Amy through her highly melodramatic autobiographies.
1:25.3	We learned about her religious upbringing and her slide into the depths of degradation at 17 when she believed in evolution and attended a dance and a movie.
1:27.3	So terrible.
1:28.3	Wow.
1:41.7	We talked about her 1910 marriage to Robert Simple and their travels to China on a missions trip and his unfortunate death.
1:47.1	We talked about her second husband, Harold McPherson, and how she ran away from that marriage to go back into Christian ministry to be a Pentecostal evangelist.
1:53.1	We talked about some of her early career founding the Angelus Temple in L.A. and her popularity and the popularity of the denomination that she
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