Inside YWAM: Grooming Children for Purity, Power, and Control | Our Stories | Jenny McGrath | 471

John invites Jenny McGrath to explore the hidden emotional and psychological damage caused by high-demand religious groups like Youth With A Mission (YWAM). Jenny McGrath, a former YWAM staff member and researcher, opens up about her experiences as a teenage missionary molded by purity culture, colonial attitudes, and spiritual manipulation. Together, they uncover how exhaustion, self-denial, and trauma are often mistaken for holiness and how these organizations can weaponize faith to control both youth and global missions. The conversation dives deep into dissociation, mind control, white saviorism, and the lifelong process of healing from religious trauma—revealing how sincere devotion can be transformed into exploitation under the guise of serving God.

00:00 Introduction
01:31 Jenny’s Story: From Purity Culture to YWAM
04:58 Physical Collapse and the Praise of Suffering
05:59 Confronting White Privilege in Missions
10:05 The Curse of Ham and Colonial Theology
13:02 Psychological Breakdown and Dissociation
16:00 Trauma, the Body, and Religious Fear
19:06 Children and the Cycle of Missionary Trauma
22:02 Mind Control and Cult Psychology
26:06 Purity Culture as Imperial Training
29:01 Religion, Resources, and Hidden Agendas
33:08 Kingdom Ideology and Justified Invasion
34:11 Fight, Flight, and Freeze in YWAM Life
36:32 Emotional Manipulation Through Worship
40:12 Autoimmune Illness and Blaming the Victim
42:10 Entrapment Through Faith and Livelihood
44:03 Healing, Memory, and Writing as Recovery
45:04 Losing Community After Leaving the Cult
47:11 Advice to an 18-Year-Old Missionary Self
49:03 Where to Find Jenny’s Work
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