Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
ANDREW PLEDGER is a writer and activist as well as the host of the podcast Beyond BJU: Exposing Fundamentalism, where he talks with other BJU survivors and expose the school’s dark history and teachings.
Andrew returns to the show to talk about the Independant Fundamentalist Baptist movement, his activism, and his new podcast.
0:00 START
02:15 Bob Jones University
12:14 BJU: Exposing Fundamentalism podcast
17:13 Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals documentary
22:32 Andrew's LGBT journey out of fundamentalism
24:07 Andrew's memoir
LINKS FOR ANDREW PLEDGER:
Surviving BJU Podcast: https://lnk.bio/survivingbjupod
Beyond BJU: Exposing Fundamentalism Podcast: https://linktr.ee/beyondbjupodcast
Linktree: andrewpledger.mypixieset.com/links
Patreon: patreon.com/4ndrewpledger
Why I Was Expelled from Bob Jones Christian University ~ with ANDREW PLEDGER youtube.com/watch?v=2weIirNOHQQ
FOOTAGE
Greenville, South Carolina - via Hi-Tech Hikers
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
Interviews powered by streamyard.com
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TALK BELIEFS: Exploring - and challenging - what and why we believe.
The Talk Beliefs YouTube Channel has been online since 2015 and has been featured on Reggie Yates' Extreme UK for BBC 3 Television. Would you like to help support Talk Beliefs or perhaps tell your own story in an interview? Channel inquiries & direct messages: unchainedmind1@gmail.com
Talk Beliefs - In Association with Evolution Soup (Sister Channel).
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Join the Talk Beliefs Facebook Group bit.ly/2fCRLLF
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Thinking about leaving your religion? Need to talk?
Recovering From Religion - Find a worldwide support group:
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"I love making #talkbeliefs content and appreciate every view, like, and share! Through this channel, people have come to terms with leaving religion, and have taken the first steps to leaving destructive cults. It's my goal to continue to help and educate. Thank you all for your support." ~ Mark :-)
Evolution Soup - The World of Evolution
YouTube: goo.gl/X19xK6
Podcast: evolutionsoup.buzzsprout.com
Instagram: instagram.com/evolution_soup
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/evolutionsoup
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ANDREW PLEDGER is a writer and activist as well as the host of the podcast Beyond BJU: Exposing Fundamentalism, where he talks with other BJU survivors and expose the school’s dark history and teachings.
Andrew returns to the show to talk about the Independant Fundamentalist Baptist movement, his activism, and his new podcast.
0:00 START
02:15 Bob Jones University
12:14 BJU: Exposing Fundamentalism podcast
17:13 Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals documentary
22:32 Andrew's LGBT journey out of fundamentalism
24:07 Andrew's memoir
LINKS FOR ANDREW PLEDGER:
Surviving BJU Podcast: https://lnk.bio/survivingbjupod
Beyond BJU: Exposing Fundamentalism Podcast: https://linktr.ee/beyondbjupodcast
Linktree: andrewpledger.mypixieset.com/links
Patreon: patreon.com/4ndrewpledger
Why I Was Expelled from Bob Jones Christian University ~ with ANDREW PLEDGER youtube.com/watch?v=2weIirNOHQQ
FOOTAGE
Greenville, South Carolina - via Hi-Tech Hikers
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
Interviews powered by streamyard.com
**********
TALK BELIEFS: Exploring - and challenging - what and why we believe.
The Talk Beliefs YouTube Channel has been online since 2015 and has been featured on Reggie Yates' Extreme UK for BBC 3 Television. Would you like to help support Talk Beliefs or perhaps tell your own story in an interview? Channel inquiries & direct messages: unchainedmind1@gmail.com
Talk Beliefs - In Association with Evolution Soup (Sister Channel).
Follow @TalkBeliefs on Twitter!
Join the Talk Beliefs Facebook Group bit.ly/2fCRLLF
Follow the Talk Beliefs Facebook Page: fb.me/talkbeliefs
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/talkbeliefs
Instagram: instagram.com/talkbeliefs
Tik Tok: @talkbeliefs
Would you like to become a supporter of the Talk Beliefs YouTube channel? Click HERE ow.ly/vn2v30fVYBx
Talk Beliefs Logo Animation by Zaraza Iulian bit.ly/2ytX4Vt
Royalty Free Music via Purple Planet: purple-planet.com
*****
Thinking about leaving your religion? Need to talk?
Recovering From Religion - Find a worldwide support group:
recoveringfromreligion.org
*****
"I love making #talkbeliefs content and appreciate every view, like, and share! Through this channel, people have come to terms with leaving religion, and have taken the first steps to leaving destructive cults. It's my goal to continue to help and educate. Thank you all for your support." ~ Mark :-)
Evolution Soup - The World of Evolution
YouTube: goo.gl/X19xK6
Podcast: evolutionsoup.buzzsprout.com
Instagram: instagram.com/evolution_soup
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/evolutionsoup
**********
DISCLAIMER:
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
#atheism #science #reason #humanism #christianity #evolution #creation #creationism #belief #secular #mormon #freethinker #darwin #humanist #cult #cults #atheist #humanist #mormon #religion #bookofmormon #jehovah #harekrishna #scientology #leahremini #scientologyandtheaftermath #secularism #dawkins #beliefs #creationist #paleo #cultsandextremebeliefs #paleoanthrology #exjw #exmormon #exchristian #exscientologist
