How Greater Grace Gets You In and Keeps You Quiet
About this episode
The episode explores the experiences of individuals who were part of Greater Grace World Outreach, detailing the control and trauma they faced within the organization.
Greater Grace World Outreach has been operating for decades across more than seventy countries. Churches, schools, missions, a Bible college, radio programs — a massive evangelical infrastructure built on the teachings of one man: Carl Stevens, a former appliance salesman from Maine who said God spoke to him at a pond. For the people inside, it was everything. For the people who got out, it was a system that consumed their identity, silenced their voices, and punished anyone who asked the wrong questions. Elita Galvin knows because she was raised in it from four months old. She hosts the Looking for Grace podcast and has spent years pulling this story apart. Oscar — joining us audio-only under a pseudonym because the trauma still follows him — walked into Greater Grace as a grown adult and spent years inside before escaping in 2004. Together, they describe a world most of our audience has never seen. A place where the church controls your social life, your education, your finances, even the words you're allowed to use. Where a father's violence is met not with a call to child protective services, but with another round of pastoral counseling and a Bible verse about keeping quiet…
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