Kathryn Scott is a prominent worship leader and author of the song "Hungry." She is also a wife to a beleaguered pastor named Alan Scott of The Dwelling Place in Anaheim, California, with dozens of allegations of spiritual abuse, including fraud, body shaming, manipulation, and telling followers he can see their secret sin. This episode discusses the dialectic of abuse, focusing on the forces of deception and denial in the wives of abusers.
Paul Martin is a former pastor who works as a human rights advocate. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy from UCLA and Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
The Wolves is for anyone interested in religion, Jesus, or the psychology around power abuse. It is also for survivors of trauma, including spiritual abuse. Covering current cases of abuse in the church today, The Wolves will highlight the sinister paradox of those who display sincerity, conviction, and knowledge and who can even claim to hear the very voice of God himself, YET at the very same time abuse they claim to love.
01:15 Jerry and Dottie: when healers abuse those they claim to serve
06:50 Spiritual abuse, Alan Scott, and the dialectic
10:52 Katheryn's sermon on "joy"
For information, visit www.thewolvespodcast.com
Contact Paul Martin at paul@paulmartin.org