The Unlearning Curve

16 - Navigating Love & Fascism     The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We believe that add...

15 - Fallout from the Prosperity Gospel   The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We believe that...

14 – Prosperity Gospel   The dysfunction and harm caused by the Prosperity Gospel   The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we beg...

13 – Paula Whiote-Cain   The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We believe that addressing many o...

12 – Advocating for Women in Marginalized Spaces   The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We beli...

22 – Tim Whitaker & TNE – How We Enable Abusers  This Episode will be released on both The Unlearning Curve and the Desert Sanctuary podcasts. It dives deeper into how we have operated in the past and how people enable the abuser to behave badly (led by Megan South Benninger).  History During the 2023 incident with platforming an accused abuser at the Theo bros beer camp, The New Evangelicals...

21 – Tim Whitaker & TNE – Still Not Getting It  This Episode will be released on both The Unlearning Curve and the Desert Sanctuary podcasts. This episode is an introduction to the situation, and the second episode dives deeper into how we have operated in the past and how people enable the abuser to behave badly (led by Megan South Benninger).  History During the 2023 incident with platformin...

# – Title of Episode   Summary   The Unlearning Curve Podcast   Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com   While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We believe that addre...

10 - Nominees for Worst Cult-like Organizations  The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com   While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We beli...

9 - Nominees for Worst Evangelical Leaders   The Unlearning Curve Podcast   Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com   While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We believ...

8 – Good Questions for Deconstruction Karl and Laura have been discussing good questions for deconstruction on The Desert Sanctuary blog and podcast. For this podcast, we decided to grab a few of these, discuss them, and help you start asking good questions and thinking about some of the most common ones we hear in deconstruction. Link to the blogs.  https://wordpress.com/posts/thedesertsanctuary....

7 – Understanding the Brain  In this episode, we attempt to broaden our knowledge with a basic understanding of the brain. When we understand more of how the brain responds to circumstances in our life and what is really going on behind the scenes, we may be able to address our mental health and understand the way we are a little better. Resources Mentioned Mike McHargue – Science Mike – “Your Bra...

6 – Barbie Gets Revenge on Greg Locke  After some reflection, I want to suggest that it wasn’t God who destroyed the makeshift home of Global Vision or even the County he resides in that continually has to battle the hate preacher because of noise and parking issues. Even though the insurance company (if there is one) would probably attribute the collapse to an “act of God,” I have another suspect...

5 – Alpha Male Grifters I was greatly influenced by men like John Eldridge, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, and the Duck Dynasty characters. I now realize these men are grifters who realize men have something primal in them left over from their evolution. The men who followed these guys are vulnerable and have a root-brain inclination to be alpha males. The trouble with this line of thinking is that...

Unlearning - What are we Discovering? theunlearningcurvepodcast@gmail.com   Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We believe that addressing many of these challe...

What is Trauma? Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand The Podcast While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We believe that addressing many of these challenges requires us to examine all aspects of our l...

The Southern Baptist Convention. The basic complaint against them is that they keep doubling down on things like racism, misogyny, and toxic beliefs and practices. Noted especially is their defiance of critical race theory, their executive board cover-up of sexual abuse, and their deference to the autonomy of their churches when bad things happen but enforcing their will on their congregation when...

Copyright © 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand In this episode, we introduce ourselves and share a clip from Tony Lambert, pastor of  Picayune First Baptist Church in Mississippi. The clip comes from Facebook, which also has a link to the entire message. For this discussion, Tony is an example of what most SBC pastors would understand and proclaim. In the next episode, we will discuss our fe...