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Leaving the Message: Our Stories is a collection of firsthand testimonies from people who have left high-control religious groups, authoritarian churches, and spiritually abusive environments. These conversations focus on lived experience — what it was like inside, what leaving cost, and what recovery looks like afterward. Guests share their stories in their own words, exploring themes of control, fear, identity, faith, family, and healing. This podcast exists to preserve voices that are often ignored or misunderstood, and to provide understanding, validation, and hope for those navigating life after high-demand religion. Full conversations and additional context can be found on the main Leaving the Message YouTube channel. Views expressed by guests or co-hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Derby Media Group LLC. Legal: https://www.william-branham.org/site/legal
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Signup to Generate a PitchLeaving the Message: Our Stories is a collection of firsthand testimonies from people who have left high-control religious groups, authoritarian churches, and spiritually abusive environments. These conversations focus on lived experience, what it was like inside, what leaving cost, and what recovery looks like afterward.
Our Stories - Leaving the Message is hosted by William Branham Historical Research.
Recent episodes include "Faith After UPCI: Anita on Grace, Fear, and Freedom" (16 October 2026, 57 minutes), "Her Family Followed Branham. She Chose Jesus" (9 October 2026, 49 minutes), and "Narcissistic Traits and the Neo-Charismatic Movement" (2 October 2026, 61 minutes).
Our Stories - Leaving the Message publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 55 minutes.
Booking probability for Our Stories - Leaving the Message is 12%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Our Stories - Leaving the Message requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Our Stories - Leaving the Message's contact route on record: verified email.
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Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Anita discuss Anita's experience leaving the United Pentecostal Church after growing up as a third-generation member. Anita reflects on a sheltered upbringing, expectations surrounding hair and clothing, and...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John invites Vonda to share what it was like growing up in a William Branham-believing family while refusing to accept Branham's teachings. She describes childhood rejection, fear-based warnings, strained family...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John invites Paul to share his journey through several neo-charismatic communities, including Icthys Fellowship, the Vineyard Movement, Torchbearers International, IHOPKC, and a deliverance ministry. Paul uses...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John invites Amie to share her experience of being raised in The Message, the questions that developed as she compared family history with conflicting accounts, and the painful reactions she faced after leaving. They...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John invites Kim to share her story of becoming involved in Word of Faith, New Apostolic Reformation, and Shepherding Movement circles during a vulnerable season of life. She describes relying on personal prophecies...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John invites Darla to share her story about being kicked out of church, spiritual abuse, church discipline, and the long process of rebuilding faith after painful experiences in church life. Darla discusses growing up...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John invites Jessica Parrent to share her experience growing up in Oneness Pentecostalism, where church standards, ministry involvement, pastoral authority, and expectations surrounding obedience shaped much of her...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Adriana discuss how the churches she experienced gradually shifted from traditional Bible-focused Christianity toward charismatic practices, emotional worship, encounters, deliverance, speaking in tongues...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John invites Melissa to share her journey from a Christian upbringing into the Hebrew Roots movement, where Sabbath observance, biblical feasts, Torah teaching, hidden interpretations, and the search for restored truth...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Josh discuss Josh's experience serving in leadership within an Evangelical Covenant Church and the events that ultimately led his family to leave. The conversation explores church governance, the role of...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Anita discuss life inside the UPCI, the culture of holiness standards, family dynasties, religious performance, shunning, and the painful process of leaving a high-control church environment. Anita shares how...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John welcomes Justin, a former member of Gospel Assembly, to discuss life inside the movement, the legacy of William Souders, the School of the Prophets, strict dress codes, financial secrecy, and the pressure placed on...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Andrea examine The Way International through Andrea's firsthand experience as a former member, exploring how Victor Wierwille's teachings blended biblical language, positive confession, secret knowledge...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John invites Mystika to revisit her journey out of the charismatic movement and explain the difficult process of unraveling works-based teachings, spiritual performance, deliverance practices, prophetic expectations...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John, Vicki, and Charles examine how high-control religion can reshape family life, parenting, discipline, fear, affection, forgiveness, and faith. Their conversation explores authoritarian church culture, spiritual...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Melissa discuss her journey into the Hebrew Roots movement, what attracted her at first, and the theological concerns that eventually led her to leave. The conversation explores Torah observance, Sabbath...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Ken examine the overlap between Word of Faith teaching, prosperity preaching, healing lines, "honoring the prophet," and high-pressure giving culture through Ken Barriger's experience around World Harvest...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Jacob examine Christ Gospel Church through the lens of lived experience, tracing its similarities to William Branham's movement and other authoritarian religious systems. They discuss exclusivism, hierarchy...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Andrew explore the hidden history of Pentecostalism, the Independent Assemblies of God, the PAOC, Myrtle Beall, George Hawtin, and the New Order of the Latter Rain. Andrew shares how family history, church...
Our Stories - Leaving the Message
John and Brian explore Brian's journey from Roman Catholicism into the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, tracing how questions about salvation, confession, sacraments, and the born-again experience pushed him toward...
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