Melissa Duge Spiers
Award-winning essayist, screenwriter, and memoirist raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church who now advocates for religious abuse survivors and authored the memoir Holy Disobedience, speaking about deconstruction and litigation efforts.
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Apr 6, 2026 • 55min
Holy Disobedience: Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One Knows with Melissa Duge Spiers
Melissa Duge Spiers, an award-winning essayist and memoirist raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, recounts unraveling family secrets and institutional control. She explores the movement’s purity culture, historical figures like John Harvey Kellogg, links to extremism, and ongoing litigation efforts to hold the church accountable.
