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Kitchen Table Cult Pod
Kitchen Table Cult unpacks all the things Kieryn and Eve learned at the kitchen tables of their childhoods in conservative Christian homeschooling families. Every week we take your questions and drill down on various topics about Quiverfull, the Religious Right, and our childhoods in high-demand gro...
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Shiny Happy Special Episode
Eve and Kieryn are back for a quick update!
In the last year Trump was re-elected, Project 2025 started becoming law of the land, Eve mad...
S6E12: Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
Kieryn and Eve discuss the German family who sought (and were temporarily-ish granted!) asylum in the US to be allowed to homeschool their kids becaus...
S6E11: Usurping Democracy with Bureaucracy
Kieryn and Eve explain the updated policy agenda of the Christian right. We talk about the various tools Christian nationalists plan on using to usurp...
S6E10: KTC x The Amendment with Errin Haines
Errin Haines of The 19th* News joins Kieryn and Eve to talk about the future of journalism, being a progressive Christian while covering the news, and...
S6E9: Apocalypse Child with Carly Butler
Kieryn and Eve talk with Carly Butler about her memoir, Apocalypse Child, what identity abuse looks like for homeschooled kids, and how it feels to re...
S6E8: Forager with Michelle Dowd
Kieryn and Eve chat with Michelle Dowd about her fascinating memoir, Forager. What it was like growing up in the family of a cult leader and how wild...
S6E7: As Goes The South with Read Freely Alabama
Kieryn & Eve are joined by the organizers of Read Freely Alabama to discuss the attempt to censor LGBTQ materials in the Augauta-Prattville library an...
S6E6: We Are All The Public Library with Eddie the Librarian
What do censorship, homeschooling, intellectual freedom, and libraries have in common? We get into it today with Eddie Kristan about the fight librari...
S6E5: Rift with Cait West
Eve and Kieryn chat with Cait West about her memoir, Rift, and what it's like to leave fundamentalist Christianity only to discover that the patriarch...
S6E4: Doing It For The Babies 2: IVF Bans and Mife
What is the future of the pro-life movement without simplistic messaging focused on Roe v. Wade to galvanize conservatives? The nuances of reproductiv...
S6E3: The Exvangelicals with Sarah McCammon
This week in the Book Club, Kieryn and Eve chat with Sarah McCammon about her upcoming book (March 19) the Exvangelicals! We talk about gatekeeping kn...
S6E2: Devout with Anna Gazmarian
Kieryn and Eve are joined by Anna Gazmarian to discuss her debut memoir, Devout, which comes out on March 12, 2024.
Growing up evangelic...
S6E1: Tradwives 2.0 Say Fuck Capitalism?
Eve and Kieryn discoverd the Stay At Home Girlfriend/Wife /Tradwife tiktoks and note their remarkable similarity to the Above Rubies and quiverfull mo...
S5E20: Mike Johnson Overview
Kieryn and Eve try to overview everything we know so far about Mike Johnson, explain the general concept of Covenant Marriage, and discuss his wife's...
S5E19: Counting The Cost
Kieryn and Eve talk about Jill Duggar Dillard's book, Counting The Cost. How and why it felt different from Jinger's Becoming Free Indeed, and how dif...
S5E18 The Woman They Wanted with Shannon Harris
Welcome to book club, where Shannon Bonne, formerly known as Shannon Harris, joins Kieryn and Eve to talk about the writing process for her book, The...
S5E17: Back To School Right-wing Extremism Edition
Eve and Kieryn chat about the right-wing extremist pivot to taking down all public education institutions. We've talked in prior episodes about radica...
S5E16: Disobedient Women with Sarah Stankorb
Kieryn and Eve sit down with Sarah Stankorb to talk about her book, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down...
S5E15: Fringe of the Fringe with Aaron and Christina Beall
Eve and Kieryn are joined by Aaron and Christina Beall to talk about their experience leaving the christian fundamentalist homeschooling movement and...
S5E14: Shiny Happy People part 2, with Cori Shepherd Stern
Kieyn and Eve chat with Shiny Happy People producer Cori Shepherd Stern about how the documentary was made and why it's important to tell stories this...
S5E13: Shiny Happy People
Kieryn and Eve are IN PERSON and talking about Shiny Happy People and the evolution of sharing their stories as they heal through trauma.
Contr...
S5E12: You're Not a Stepford Wife, Jing
Eve and Kieryn discuss Jinger's book Free Indeed, on disentangling (not deconstructing) christianity from the teachings of Bill Gothard, and share a b...
S5E11: Parental Rights Extremism Part 4 With Carmen & Sarah
Kieryn and Eve are joined by friends of the pod Carmen Longoria-Green and Sarah Jones to talk about the bit picture and the meaningful ways we can fig...
S5E10: Parental Rights Extremism Part 3, A PAC is Born
In the third part of the deep dive into Parental Rights Extremism, Kieryn and Eve connect the organizational and funding dots between the orgs working...
S5E9: Parental Rights Extremism Part 2
Hold on to your hats, Kieryn and Eve do a Deep Dive into the legal history of parental rights and what lays the groundwork for how children's rights a...
S5E8: Parental Rights Extremism Part 1
The first in a multi-part series we've been teasing about all season. We talk about Parental Rights Extremism and how to effectively combat the rhetor...
S5E7: Jesus is a P3n1s
Sometimes episodes write themselves and we have The Gospel Coalition to thank for this gem. If you're part of our Slack community you know what's comi...
S5E6: Wycliffe with Anna Olson
Eve and Kieryn chat with friend of the pod Anna Olson about the missionary and linguistic work of Wycliff --- one of the biggest bible translation/mis...
S5E5: Hands of Doom with Jack Holloway
Kieryn and Eve are joined by Jack Holloway from The Heavens AKA, our intro/outro music, to talk about their book, Hands of Doom -- covering the religi...
S5 E4: Coups The Planet with Annika Brockschmidt
Kieryn and Eve are joined by Annika Brockschmidt, author of Amerika's Gottskrieger and German reporter on the rise of Christofascism in the US to talk...
S5E3: Club Q with Eleanor and Rian
Eve and Kieryn chat with Eleanor Skelton and Rian about the impact of the Club Q shooting on Colorado Springs and the history and culture of Colorado...
S5E2: God Forbid
Kieryn and Eve watched the God Forbid documentary and Have Thoughts(tm) after talking about what it feels like to watch twitter become...what it has.
S5E1: When Radicalized Parents Homeschool with Weston Brown
Eve and Kieryn are back and talking with Weston Brown about parents who homeschool forcing their views on the public school system. Weston's mom is tr...
S4E20: I'm Glad My Mom Died
It's the last episode of Season 4! Kieryn and Eve discuss the book "I'm Glad My Mom Died" and how it feels to realize you were abused by people you lo...
S4E19: Detra Denise (HNY)
Kieryn and Eve sit down with Detra Denise from Humans of New York and talk about what it was like to leave fundamentalism as a mother and make it in N...
S4E18: Fighting Parental Rights Extremism with Darcy
Kieryn and Eve chat with Darcy about how to Protect Trans Kids and fight against Parental Rights Extremism in your school district.
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S4E17: Release The Kraken
AKA Ginni Thomas Part 3: Jan 6th.
After taking some time off to process Roe being overturned, Kieryn and Eve dive back in to Ginni Thomas' role...
S4E16: When The Moon Turns to Blood with Leah Sottile
Kieryn and Eve chat with Leah Sottile about her new book When The Moon Turns To Blood about Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell's religiously motivated viole...
S4 E15: End of Roe with R.E. Fulton
R.E. Fulton (@rebfulton) joins KTC to talk about the history of abortion and dispel some myths, and tell us about the one who got away with actual mur...
S4E14: Grove City College & (not) CRT with Cedric Lewis
Kieryn and Eve chat with Prof. Cedric Lewis about Grove City College's Critical Race Theory "investigation". Listen to find out what's actually happen...