Hosted by Sydney Davis Jr. Jr. · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 182 episodes
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A podcast analyzing the true life experiences of everyday people who grew up fundamentalist, orthodox, or within any other strictly religious environment, and the impact (positive or negative) that this upbringing had on who they are today.
Sydney Davis Jr. Jr. hosts Growing Up Fundie, a religion show with 182 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andy Thomson: Part 2 In the fall of 2025, my friend and multi-time podcast guest, psychiatrist Dr. Anderson Thomson, proposed an idea for my podcast: He wanted to interview ME. In his words, I’d spen
Send us Fan Mail In the fall of 2025, my friend and multi-time podcast guest, psychiatrist Dr. Anderson Thomson, proposed an idea for my podcast: He wanted to interview ME. In his words, I’d spent nearly 200 episodes int
Send us Fan Mail In celebration of our 4 year Anniversary (GUF launched in December of 2021), we are revisiting (and remastering) some of our earlier episodes' guests, opinions, current events from the past, and to celeb
Send us Fan Mail In celebration of our 4 year Anniversary (GUF launched in December of 2021), we are revisiting some of our earlier episodes to revisit guests, opinions, current events from the past, and to celebrate how
Send us Fan Mail In celebration of our 4 year Anniversary (GUF launched in December of 2021), we are revisiting some of our earlier episodes to revisit guests, opinions, current events from the past, and to celebrate how
Send us Fan Mail Tiktok clips from this debate have garnered over 1.5 million views and counting View the full video version of this debate here: https://youtu.be/xbBY0S2w1aU?si=h9GEjXmA7H0lNGd6 From “What is Irrational
Send us Fan Mail (Watch the video-version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/swyLoDOBUK0 ) Gary Parker and Secular Rarity are long-time friends, and co-producers of “The Conversation Coalition,” A group of Nashville
Send us Fan Mail "The Casual Scholars" is a new podcast brought to you by the creator of "Growing Up Fundie," featuring interesting people who know a lot about interesting things. In this sneak peek of Episode 1: Adam Hi
Send us Fan Mail Poulomi Saha is an Associate Professor & Co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. They lead a popular course called “Cults and Popular Culture,” which examines, among other things, t
Send us Fan Mail View the visual version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/gcp7w5AypU8 What is Christian Nationalism? Christian nationalism is a form of religious nationalism that focuses on promoting the Christian
Send us Fan Mail Watch the YouTube version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/qObbkKvJ9rQ?si=hvepS4FmVs0yoo8j Kelley Laughlin was raised Lutheran until the age of 14, when he first began questioning what he was being
Send us Fan Mail Spiritually speaking, Lynn was raised as a devout Catholic, before her family later transitioned into a more Charismatic-leaning Christian church. As an adult, however, Lynn realized that (despite her ac
Send us Fan Mail View the visual version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/lZFazV_SdfU Lindsey grew up in a religious family that devoutly followed the now-infamous IBLP IBLP organization, or “ The Institute in Basi
Send us Fan Mail Eric’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theinvestigativemillennial9381 Our discussion on why Skeptics leave the Church: https://youtu.be/XpUYnlhfATY?si=uuZtDGj_uAqcu9do Our OG Livestream from Ju
Send us Fan Mail On Growing Up Fundie, Episode 151. Misty walks us through her family’s decades-long journey through the gamut of Christian denominations, and the college assignment that finally opened her eyes to what s
Send us Fan Mail Watch the visual version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/M3aVTqQkoss Darante’ Lamar was once the most devoutly religious person in his family. After finding God, and dedicating his life to being a
Send us Fan Mail This episode originally livestreamed on YouTube on Wednesday, June 5th 2024. Watch the original stream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/xPTs1No2Qa4?si=D6InpFHxZVzQSbF7 Jimmy Jr. is a host for the shows
Send us Fan Mail 148 Brett M. considers himself a free-thinking Christian. He recognizes that in order to hang his hat on a belief system, and claim that he wants to follow a specific faith or religion, he has to feel as
Send us Fan Mail Note from Sydney: Please take a moment to fill out this short survey to help me make future episodes a continued success. Cheers! https://forms.gle/g48Bn8Nzd1P8ymBs5 Watch the visual version of this epis
Send us Fan Mail Kyle Lett attended a Baptist church with his Grandmother until the age of 12, when his father and stepmother decided he needed to attend a Pentecostal church with them. After years of involving himself i
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Cynane Shay
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