Episode Details

It took a campfire conversation between former members to crack open decades of alleged abuse inside Greater Grace World Outreach. Once those stories started flowing, they didn't stop.

Greater Grace was founded by Carl Stevens in rural Maine in the early 1970s and grew into an evangelical network spanning more than seventy countries. Churches, schools, a Bible college, radio programs, missionary operations — a massive institutional footprint built on one man's teachings and sustained by a culture that, according to an independent investigation, systematically disempowered the people inside it through fear-based messaging and theological manipulation.

The investigation — commissioned by Greater Grace itself — ran for fourteen months and produced a 172-page report. The findings named four senior leaders who should be removed. They documented alleged abuse spanning decades and patterns of institutional silencing consistent with what the investigators described as a cover-up.

Elita Galvin grew up inside this organization from infancy. Her father was violent and church leaders knew — their response was pastoral shuffling and weaponized scripture. She now hosts the Looking for Grace podcast and has spent years building the investigative record. Oscar, joining under a pseudonym, entered as an adult and spent years inside before the system's grip loosened enough for him to leave in 2004. He still carries the trauma.

This conversation covers everything — the recruitment tactics, the control mechanisms, the doctrine designed to silence victims, the investigation's findings, the church's inadequate response, and the parallels to IBLP and the Duggar family. It's the kind of story that makes you rethink every institution you've ever trusted.

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