Holy Disobedience with Melissa Duge Spiers

About this episode

Melissa Duge Spiers discusses her memoir and the challenges of publishing it amidst legal concerns with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In this episode of Sunday School Dropouts, host Andrew Kerbs is joined by memoirist and ex-Adventist advocate Melissa Duge Spiers to discuss her book, Holy Disobedience: Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One Knows. Melissa shares the incredible twenty-year journey of bringing her story to publication, including a decade where the manuscript sat untouched and the hurdles she faced with major publishers due to legal anxieties surrounding the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The conver...

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Kerbs

Guest: Melissa Duge Spiers

Topics covered

• memoir
• religion
• publishing
• personal journey
• advocacy

Keywords

• memoir
• Holy Disobedience
• Seventh-day Adventist
• publishing challenges
• Melissa Duge Spiers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Seventh-day Adventist Church

Books & works: Holy Disobedience: Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One Knows

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