Let My People Go (with Matt Osborne)

New Books in Policing, Incarceration, and Reform

LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: The topic of today’s episode is human trafficking and crimes against children, usually sexual crimes, and sometimes ritual abuse and organ harvesting.

Matt Osborne has worked with OUR Rescue (originally Operation Underground Railroad) for ten years; he left his CIA career to join this NGO and is now one of the longest-serving members of the team. Last year he was COO and president and these days he’s Global Ambassador for Operations and Education; as part of this new role, he hosts the Voices for Freedom podcast with his friend and colleague Jessica Mass.

[I intentionally did not ask Matt about Tim Ballard, the founder of the organization and subject of the loosely biographical Sound of Freedom, who had to leave the organization after accusations in 2023 about past scandalous behavior toward (adult) women. I also did not ask him about the politics of Jim Caviezel who played Ballard in the film. You can read about these things very easily online, but it seemed to me to have nothing to do with our guest today and were rather a distraction from the important work of OUR Rescue.]

• OUR Rescue website and Instagram.
• Voices of Freedom podcast with Matt Osborne and Jessica Mass.
• Cyber TipLine (“cybertipline.org”) that Matt discussed in our show; this is a place to report the exploitation of children or potential or suspected exploitation of children.
• Sound of Freedom (2023) Trailer and Angel Studios webpage.

Here is the pilgrimage with Monique and Joseph González this coming September with Inside the Vatican, and the related episodes from Almost Good Catholics:

• Pilgrimage to Mexico: Our Lady of Guadalupe & the Flower World Prophecy 2024
• Colleen Dulle on Almost Good Catholics, episode 16: Marxists and Mystics: A Vatican Journalist discusses her Biography of Madeleine Delbrêl and the New Papal Constitution
• Father James Martin, SJ, on Almost Good Catholics, episode 30: What if You’re Gay? Starting Conversations with and about LGBT Catholics.
• Joseph and Monique González on Almost Good Catholics, episode 74: Our Lady of Guadalupe and Aztec True Myth: How the Flower World Bloomed into History in 1531.

Here is my first discussion with Pastor Brian Zahnd and the film A Hidden Life which we will be talking about on August 15:

• A Hidden Life (2019) trailer, IMBD, and on Amazon Prime.
• Brian Zahnd on Almost Good Catholics, episode 82: The Wood between the Worlds: Why Death on the Cross?

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