Nathan Apffel

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2,883 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

Nathan Apffel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I sing in choir.

I'm one of six kids.

And there was just a couple of things in my late teens and in 20s that really, I would say, shaped me.

And I consider it God.

I'm a firm believer in God.

And I'm like, God just put me in situations that I couldn't look away.

And one of them was my youth pastor, so he was my junior high pastor.

And then as I grew up, he moved up to become the high school pastor and then was being groomed to take over this large mega church that I went to.

He gets arrested for sexually abusing his adopted child.

And he just got out of jail like 20 years later.

And I was like, well, how is this guy being groomed to take over this church?

And he's had decades in churches now and no one realized that he was his child.

You know, like this is just bizarre to me.

And then I went to Brazil.

I was in Rio.

That same trip, actually, and one of my buddies, a bodyboarder, a pro bodyboarder from Brazil is like, hey, I want to take you to this seminary.

Exactly, exactly.

There's all sorts of names, but he's like, I want to take you to the seminary in the mountains, in the favelas, like in the poor regions of Brazil.

And I'm like, let's go.

And the seminary is basically like where you go to learn and study the Bible.

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