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9 Jun 2025
In a new pod from @wonderymedia, I expose LIBERTY UNIVERSITY'S best kept secret — a maternity home where pregnant teens (some just 13) say the faced coercion & religious manipulation until they surrendered their babies for adoption to Christian couples. 🎧linktr.ee/tjraphael
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30 Sep 2025
Thank you for this piece @JessicaValenti. I find @ezraklein's argument especially ghoulish, especially considering he's consistently invoked his own wife's high risk pregnancy in the past when talking about the need for abortion access. jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-…
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23 Sep 2025
Liberty Lost has been nominated for Signal Award! For best documentary. It’s a listener choice award so please vote and share! vote.signalaward.com/PublicV…
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
4 Sep 2025
Ranked number 🥈 in the #Podchaser25 for hottest, up-and-coming podcasts of August 2025...
Liberty Lost
🎚️ @WonderyMedia
🎙️ @TJRaphael
Full list here: bit.ly/August2025Podchaser25
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
5 Aug 2025
Ranked number 🥈 in the #Podchaser25 for hottest, up-and-coming podcasts of July 2025...
Liberty Lost
🎚️ @WonderyMedia
🎙️ @TJRaphael
Full list here: bit.ly/July2025Podchaser25
podchaser.com/podcasts/liber…
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
26 Jul 2025
The Liberty Godparent Home, a place for young, single, pregnant women, is defending itself against allegations of coercion and manipulation.
bit.ly/3H4yxM3
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22 Jul 2025
This love story about adoption and loss is a good listen.
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
24 Jul 2025
In this @STLonAir episode: St. Louis native Toni Popham talks about her isolating experience as a pregnant 13-year-old at a maternity home.
The treatment of pregnant girls at the Liberty Godparent Home is the subject of Popham's podcast, "Liberty Lost." stlpr.org/show/st-louis-on-t…
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If you haven’t already heard @TJRaphael ‘s Liberty Lost podcast, it’s a must listen.
Have your tissues handy, then be ready to join as we overthrow the patriarchy!
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
22 Jul 2025
NEW REVIEW: In @WonderyMedia and @TJRaphael's series Liberty Lost, the shame placed on "unwed mothers" sounds like a story from decades ago. Not so.
podcastreview.org/review/lib…
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
20 Jul 2025
Advertisements for the podcast series “Liberty Los,t” which was released last week just before the three-year anniversary of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, can be seen on billboards around Lynchburg. In “Liberty Lost,” journalist T.J. Raphael tells the st... newsadvance.com/news/article…
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
11 Jul 2025
Grateful for the chance to work on this @MsMagazine piece about @TJRaphael and @WonderyMedia's new podcast Liberty Lost and the terrifying history of maternity homes in the U.S. msmagazine.com/2025/07/10/li…
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
12 Jul 2025
This podcast is horrifying, heartbreaking, and fascinating all at once. It’s great storytelling, and it brought me to tears multiple times.
11 Jul 2025
Liberty Lost, the first ever deep dive into Liberty University's best-kept secret: A shadow maternity home that sits on campus and houses pregnant teens and young women. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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11 Jul 2025
Liberty Lost, the first ever deep dive into Liberty University's best-kept secret: A shadow maternity home that sits on campus and houses pregnant teens and young women. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
11 Jul 2025
Name a podcast that everyone should be tuning in to this summer. ☀️
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
30 Jun 2025
Last week's recommended episodes:
- Hot Money (@FinancialTimes)
- Liberty Lost (@WonderyMedia)
- How To! (@Slate)
- The Powers That Be: Daily (@PeterHamby)
- Plain English with @DKThomp (@Spotify)
Subscribe to our newsletter for new episode recs every Tuesday.
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
3 Jul 2025
Glamour speaks with the host and subject of the hit podcast which investigates the rise of maternity homes and the women who say they felt pressured to give up their babies in the post-Roe era. glamour.com/story/the-libert…
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Pregnant teens say they were isolated, shamed coerced into giving up their babies at a Christian maternity home on Liberty Uni's campus in exchange for scholarships. Listen: ow.ly/nHki50WktJT. @TJRaphael is the host, reporter, writer, sr producer
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T. J. Raphael retweeted
23 Jun 2025
Listening to Liberty Lost podcast, an investigative piece from
Wondery. Sobering.
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23 Jun 2025
LIBERTY LOST is out today *for free* wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧 Click here to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Amazon Music. linktr.ee/tjraphael
#libertyuniversity #maternityhome #adoption #reproductiverights #purityculture #exvangelical #evangelical
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