STRONGWILLED
DL and Krispin Mayfield host conversations about the personal and political impacts of Religious Authoritarian Parenting.
Episodes
March 17, 2025 • 64 mins
TW: child abuse, corporal punishment
DL interviewed Talia Lavin, author of the phenomenal book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America.
You can follow Talia on bluesky and buy her book here.
You can read about religious authoritarian parenting and also find the transcript for this podcast at strongwilled.substack.com.
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February 24, 2025 • 30 mins
TW: Holocaust denial, homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny, religious trauma
DL took some time during their estrangement story to do a deep dive into the intergenerational aftermath of Nazi Germany, and how younger generations talked with their parents about their support of Hitler -- plus, a run down of what seems to be driving estrangement in the US among adult children and their religious, conservative parents.
You can read ab...
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February 17, 2025 • 46 mins
TW/CW: denial of structural racism in the US, COVID denial / death, transphobia, homophobia, fatphobia.
DL shares their story about going no contact with their parents, and in line with our recent post on substack, discusses how oppressive politics and ideology can do incredible harm in personal relationships.
You can read about religious authoritarian parenting and also find the transcript for this podcast at strongwilled.subst...
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February 3, 2025 • 53 mins
TW/CW: physical abuse, corporal punishment, emotionally abusive caretaker
Krispin & DL discuss the second part of the the Adventures in Odyssey episode, a follow up to our podcast episode Spanking on Christian Radio released last fall.
This Adventure's in Odyssey episode focuses on Mr. Whitaker’s troubled relationship with his adult daughter. Honestly, we couldn’t have written an episode that is so perfect at describing what it is ...
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December 9, 2024 • 75 mins
TW/CW: sexual abuse, spanking, religious trauma
Krispin shares his story about going no contact with his parents. This is a heavy one, and has an ongoing theme about sexual abuse and a family system that enabled abuse, so please take care in listening.
You can read about religious authoritarian parenting and also find the transcript for this podcast at strongwilled.substack.com.
You can join our patreon comamunity to support this p...
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November 25, 2024 • 60 mins
TW/CW: corporal punishment, spanking, mention of sexual abuse
Krispin & DL discuss the factors that make setting boundary in religious authoritarian families so difficult. We talk about how trauma responses make it difficult for us to speak up, the negative responses to setting boundaries, and more.
D.L. mentions the Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents series by Lindsay Gibson.
You can register for Krispin's workshop f...
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October 21, 2024 • 63 mins
TW/CW: physical abuse, corporal punishment
Krispin & DL interview Tori Williams Douglass about corporal punishment and their experience working in a neuroscience lab.
You can follow Tori on IG and check out their website here.
You can check out our recent post at STRONGWILLED about the research about spanking and corporal punishment here, and the rest of our STRONGWILLD content (and the transcript for this epsiode) at strongwilled...
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September 22, 2024 • 60 mins
TW/CW: physical abuse, emotionally abusive/aggressive caretaker, sexual abuse, animal/pet death.
Krispin & DL discuss a Christian radio drama about spanking/corporal punishment. We're digging into an episode of Adventures in Odyssey (produced & distributed by James Dobson's organization, Focus on the Family) from 1988 that talked about why it was so important.
We're discussing "A Member of the Family Part 1" which debuted in the e...
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August 25, 2024 • 69 mins
TW: suicidal ideation, child loss, emotional neglect/abuse
A conversation between Krispin and DL, where DL talks about their childhood with a parent who believed it was the end of the world. In this episode, we also discuss late-diagnosed autism, making sense of family tragedies, and being gender non-conforming in a world that was obsessed with the patriarchal binary.
You can check out show notes and more STRONGWILLED content at s...
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August 12, 2024 • 67 mins
TW: corporal punishment, child physical abuse, child sexual abuse
This episode, Krispin talks about growing up in a small town with conservative parents would joined ministry and eventually overseas mission work, and what religious authoritarian parenting looked like for Krispin’s childhood, teenage years and early adulthood.
You can check out show notes and more STRONGWILLED content at strongwilled.substack.com
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July 29, 2024 • 50 mins
DL and Krispin discuss how religious authoritarian parenting often creates dysfunctional family dynamics, and how it impacts the individuals who grow up in these families.
We mention Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell.
You can check out show notes and more STRONGWILLED content at strongwilled.substack.com
You can join our patreon comamunity to support this podcast and gain access extra episodes, our facebook community, as well as ...
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July 15, 2024 • 45 mins
DL and Krispin cover the basics of growing under religious authoritarian parenting — and what we believe therapists should know when they’re helping people heal from this kind of upbringing.
We talk about six aspects of religious authoritarian parenting, including the goals of this type of parenting, how religion was used, and the developmental delays it creates.
We mention Lindsay Gibson’s book, Adult Children of Emotionally Imma...
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June 13, 2024 • 46 mins
For this bonus episode, D.L. Mayfield interviewed Amber Cantorna-Wylde, author of Out of Focus, My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism. DL talked with her about her experience growing up as the daughter of the man in charge of Adventures in Odyssey. Amber’s story is heartbreaking, inspiring, and also a powerful indictment against the people that often told us that “family is everything.”
Today Amber is a powerful ad...
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March 21, 2024 • 56 mins
DL & Krispin discuss the season finale of The Good Place Season 1, titled "Michael's Gambit." We talk about recognizing rotten systems (that claim to be good) and also what's next for the podcast!
You can Join our patreon comamunity to support this podcast and gain access to two extra episodes each month, our facebook community, as well as the backlog of patreon-only episodes covering evangelical media, spiritual abuse, and more.
Y...
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February 15, 2024 • 48 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E12 titled “Mindy St. Claire” We ask whether you actually have any ethical choices in a capitalistic system and other questions that inspire hopelessness. Also, is the US the medium place?
Leave us a voicemail at (503) 912-4130 or send a voice memo to propheticimaginationstation@gmaill.com.
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February 1, 2024 • 70 mins
D.L interviews Kelley Nikondeha, author of First Advent in Palestine about Christian zionism, and how Palestinians view the year 1948 (often called "The Nakba" or "Catasrophe"). Kelley is the author of The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexities of Hope. You can follow her on Instagram here.
Here is a great 4-page sheet outlining what happened in 1948. While John Wayne encouraged Bodie Theone ...
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January 18, 2024 • 61 mins
The book we are discussing is The Gates of Zion by Brock and Bodie Theone.
You can follow Josh’s work over on his substack called New Means. He mostly covers issues of labor but most recently has been writing from a Jewish perspective on the dangers of zionism.
“Zionism was the air we breathed. To me it seemed so normal, it was not something we investigated consciously.”
The single largest zionist organization in the US Christi...
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January 4, 2024 • 52 mins
DL and Krispin talk about Christian Zionism, The Left Behind Series, Dispensationalism and more!
Here's some resources we reference in this episode:
Left Behind: From Root to Ripened Fruit by Hank Hanegraaff (the Bible Answer Man).
John Darby's "End Times" by Chuck Hamilton
Asking, What Would Jesus Read? by Erin Smith
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December 14, 2023 • 65 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E10 titled “What's My Motivation?” We talk a lot about religious trauma, being trained to discount your own experience, and whether people who believe in soul mates tend to be demisexual. Also, who won the bet from the end of last episode?
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November 30, 2023 • 47 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E10 titled “Chidi’s Choice.” We talk about our romantic lives as teenagers and young adults. We also talk more about ethical OCD, and how impactful (and un-detected) it can be.
Krispin mentions Task Master
DL mentions Good Christian Fun
You can learn about ethical soups here.
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