Secret Radio begins on the Recovering Fundamentalists Podcast today

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Secret Radio, the memoir of Grace Jovian during her days at an unaccredited, Fundamental Baptist college in the 1980's, begins today on the podcast. Secret Radio started out as a blog, has been converted to a novel, and is now presented in audio on the podcast.

If you're a (former) Fundamentalist and you want to walk down memory lane, or if you wonder what the IFB culture is all about, you'll want to tune in to this podcast. Secret Radio is a somewhat dark comedy. It's been an engaging eye opener for many readers, a new way of stepping back and looking at their own world. You can weigh out the following reader comments for yourself. You'll notice that IFB pastors and evangelists object to it the most:

"I just want you to know that i'm really enjoying reading your blog and i can't wait to find out what happens next. thanks for sharing." -- shae

"It is vicious gossip thinly disguised as "fiction." It is entirely without literary, ethical, moral, or Christian merit." --Thomas Cassidy

"This is such an absorbing story, and you bring it to life with dignity and...well...grace. " -- Cindy Swanson (Notes in the Key of Life)

"Its just junk! Some junk still has worth. This junk is worthless." --Marine

"No animals were harmed in the filming of this story." I dunno...I think a few sacred cows might have been tipped." -- patzer

"I just finished reading Secret Radio....I started reading it this morning and couldn’t stop until the end....So much of it was believable from my own past in an IFB-controlled environment. Your story outraged me, touched me, and humbled me. It was well-written and it had what so much of modern fiction lacks—-you find yourself genuinely caring about the characters." -- Jack Harris, Air Force

"I have to say, I don't think she goes too far. That is a slice of real life....That's why she's dealing with it, and I think very tastefully, as part of her ongoing saga." --The G Man

"It's FICTION based on TRUTH and it's publicized as such. That leaves SO much room for the mind to wonder and to wander. Leaves people guessing how much is true and how much is fiction, and just how much went on WHERE." -- IMRIGHTUKNOWIT

"I just finished reading "Secret Radio" and must say that I was captivated by it....I really identified with the struggles that your character, Grace, went through....'Secret Radio' is an Incredible read and uncanny portrayal of the IFB life." -- from a cablelynx reader

"Most excellent!" -- Dave

"I am truly impacted and inspired by the truth and the courage of your characters. This story has real depth and is a study of human nature...which is always a vast study and can be difficult." -- scarlet

"linguistic pornography!" -- jewnorgreek

"We have someone with the courage to warn us, and we punish them by calling it porn? I know it is shocking, but I don't believe for a minute this was written for any reason other than to make us sober and vigilant." -- Bob of the FFF

"I have read [SECRET RADIO] and I agree with Pastor Bob" -- Webmaster of the [original] FFF

"Your story takes me back to my own days in a fundamental Baptist Bible college. The details may be somewhat different as it was 40 years ago and not 20. Still, many of the same situations existed even then." -- Don Moffitt

"I...was impressed, as many others obviously were, by the candid (yet not at all prurient or titillating) realism of the story. The main characters were...very believable and human in their tragic faults and surprising virtues." -- RJA, Canada

"Secret Radio paints an inaccurate picture, coming from someone with a known "axe to grind" and an overwhelming desire to show all IFB's as deviants." -- PappaBear

"As much as I wish what was written ...[in SECRET RADIO] was fictional...it isn't. Maybe we don't like the way it was presented -- that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be told. I don't think that it's representative of a statistical majority." --phoenix

"A good piece of fiction, very critical of the worst excesses of Christian Fundamentalists, written by an Evangelical Christian and including several examples of good, loving Fundamentalist Christians among its characters." -- posted by Jedimom on Jabootu's BBS

"What a great story and I'm sad to see it end." -- Winterpen