Black Religious Trauma Survivor Speaks with Adrian Taylor

Black men are not supposed to talk about being hurt. Especially not by the church.

In this episode of Surviving the Black Church, Adrian Taylor breaks that silence. As a Black man who grew up in the Black church, endured spiritual abuse from church leadership, and wrestled with the weight of religious trauma alongside the expectations of Black masculinity, his story puts a face on a conversation that too many Black men have had to carry alone.

This one is for every Black man who knew something was wrong — and was told that saying so made him less of a man, less of a believer, or less of both.

Surviving the Black Church — because your story doesn't end there.