In this episode of Exodus Brothers, we sit down with sisters Grace and Katie Robinette to hear a story shaped by fear, control, and survival inside a fundamentalist church culture in West Virginia.

Raised in a family of nine and largely homeschooled, they were taught that obedience meant survival. Discipline was often public. Shame was normalized. Questioning authority wasn’t an option when every adult around you believed the same system.

When Katie was a teenager, an exorcism was performed on her in their own living room — an experience that would leave a lasting mark. Within their church, everything was framed as spiritual warfare. Illness, doubt, even disability were blamed on sin. Fear of hell and the rapture hung over daily life.

As they got older, both began to see the damage more clearly. In this episode, Grace and Katie share their story — growing up in a high-control religious environment, surviving abuse, and the long, complicated process of stepping outside a world that once defined everything.

Theme music: Jenni Potts

Bry Troyer grew up in a strict religious environment, where identity came with expectations—and deviation came with consequences. In this episode of Exodus Brothers, Bry shares what it was like realizing he was gay in a world that had no room for it. From a strained relationship with his father, who did not accept him for who he was and pressure to conform—his early life was shaped by silence, fear, and the hope that he could change.

That hope led him to Exodus International, where he pursued conversion therapy in an attempt to become someone he wasn’t. What followed was a painful unraveling of belief, identity, and faith itself. We talk about the cost of suppression, the long road out of religious control, and the moment Bry chose honesty over survival. Today, he lives openly as a gay man—and no longer holds the beliefs that once defined his world.

This is a story about rejection, reconstruction, and the difficult, necessary act of becoming yourself. Theme music: Jenni Potts

In this episode, we talk with Calvin Smith—better known as “Unquestionable Calvin”—an atheist content creator out of Plymouth, Michigan who’s been in the deconstruction space for years. He hosts live call-in debates, practices street epistemology, and creates content focused on helping people have real conversations about belief. We get into his approach, what he’s learned over the years, and how asking the right questions can open doors you didn’t even know were there. Theme music: Jenni Potts