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Weiss, Mitch,.
Broken faith :
inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, one of America's most dangerous cults /
Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada :
Hanover Square Press,
[2020]
℗2020.
411 pages ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-411.)
Part one. In the beginning. Moving day, September 19, 1993 ; Settling in ; A fox in the flock ; Busted ; The attack ; The investigation ; Little house in the country -- Part two. Children of the damned. Doubting the word ; No escape ; The five boys ; "Happy are the children" ; Surrogate parents ; Money and influence ; Religious freedom ; "We won, we won!" ; The "slaves" ; The loneliest day -- Part three. The advocates. Saving Michael Lowry ; A little help from his friends ; The ruse ; Matthew Fenner ; Danielle's salvation ; The wedding ; The fight for justice ; The escape ; Perseverance and redemption ; The reunion.
An investigation into the Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader, Jane Whaley, is a master of manipulation. Starting in 1979 with a small group of followers, the group has expended to include thousands of congregants across three continents. Gives the story of a singular femlae cult leader, a terrifying portrait of life inside the cult, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades.
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Whaley, Jane.
Word of Faith Fellowship.
Cults
United States.
Cults
North Carolina.
Ex-cultists.
Offenses against the person.
Christian sects
United States.
Mohr, Holbrook,.
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