In our sixth episode we interviewed Johanna Browne. Jo shares her profound journey as an intersex individual, detailing her upbringing, the challenges she faced with gender identity, and the impact of religious beliefs on her life. Joanna discusses her experiences with conversion therapy, societal expectations, and the struggles of navigating her identity in a world […]

Happy 2025 everyone! In our fifth episode we interviewed Samuel Stone. Sam grew up in South Australia and Queensland, was home schooled and later on educated in a religious high school. Sam shares his struggles with religious education and its issues in Australia. Sam also shares conflicts with his church on a musical note- (apparently […]

In this fourth episode of RfR Stories Australia, we hear Chrissie Foster’s story.Chrissie was raised Catholic in Australia and was devout throughout her early life and early adulthood. Chrissies relationship with Catholicism took an incredibly dark turn when, to her and her family’s horror they discovered that two of her daughters had become victims of […]

In this third episode of RfR Stories Australia, we hear Shawn’s story. Shawn grew up in South Africa and was raised Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or LDS). When Shawn was 19 he left South Africa and went to England to ‘serve’ as a Mormon missionary for 2 years. After that he […]

In this second episode of RfR Stories Australia, we hear Sallyann’s story. Sallyann grew up in Ireland and was initially raised Roman Catholic, but then her family left Catholicism for an independent conservative evangelical church (Hillside Evangelical Church) before she was 10, and later, when she was 16, joined the Apostolic Church. When Sallyann was […]

In this first episode of RfR Stories Australia we hear the story of ex-Jehovah’s Witness Jonathan. Jonathan grew up in the UK within a Jehovah’s Witness family and in his early adulthood did extensive regular pioneering in the Perth region. Later on he moved to the Jehovah’s Witness ‘Bethel’ in Sydney, which contributed heavily to […]