Mortal Sin

Josh Mickiewicz never lets us down. He is a great storyteller and he was respectful with a difficult subject of a horrible sin committed by a pastor and the people of the church who ignored red flags in the name of faith or whatever. I appreciated this story.

Great podcast overall to binge! I agree with other reviews in that it was frustrating how the women involved were treated as pitiful victims, and not held more directly accountable for their decisions. Though I can’t imagine they would have agreed to be interviewed if they couldn’t control the narrative to some degree. Gives me a little more faith in society to see that many listeners didn’t pacify their behavior either. If you like the other dateline miniseries’, you’ll enjoy this one too!

I understand that the manner of interviewing has been Dateline’s “thing” for as long as Dateline has been around, but the way he speaks to and interviews people who were clearly manipulated into a coercive controlling relationship with a narcissist makes me think the host hasn’t done sufficient research. He could have pulled so much more interesting and useful information from the interviewees if the interviews were approached less like an episode of Dr. Phil and more like an episode of the shows “Let’s Talk About Sects” and “Indoctrination.” It’s an interesting story told in an interesting way, but the whole time I was distracted by the interrogation style of interviewing.

This was such an insane story. My jaw hit the floor several times. I loved the interviews. He asked the questions I had in my head about the choices these people made and I’m still scratching my head. So good.