Broken faith : inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, one of America's most dangerous cults
In 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a promise that she could turn their lives around. In the years since, Whaley's following has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continents. In their eyes she's a prophet. And to disobey her means eternal damnation. The control Whaley exerts is absolute: she decides what her followers study, where they work, whom they can marry--even when they can have sex. Based on hundreds of interviews, secretly recorded conversations, and thousands of pages of documents, this is a terrifying portrait life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades.
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- ISBN: 9781335145239
- Physical Description 411 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
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Table of Contents
Broken Faith : Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, America's Most Dangerous Cult
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Quote | p. 17 | |
Introduction | p. 19 | |
Part 1 | In the Beginning | p. 21 |
Prologue: The Escape | p. 23 | |
1 | Moving Day, September 19, 1993 | p. 27 |
2 | Settling In | p. 35 |
3 | A Fox in the Flock | p. 52 |
4 | Busted | p. 64 |
5 | The Attack | p. 76 |
6 | The Investigation | p. 90 |
7 | Little House in the Country | p. 104 |
Part 2 | Children of the Damned | p. 117 |
8 | Doubting the Word | p. 119 |
9 | No Escape | p. 127 |
10 | The Five Boys | p. 138 |
11 | "Happy Are the Children" | p. 147 |
12 | Surrogate Parents | p. 153 |
13 | Money and Influence | p. 160 |
14 | Religious Freedom | p. 173 |
15 | "We Won. We Won!" | p. 180 |
16 | The "Slaves" | p. 190 |
17 | The Loneliest Day | p. 207 |
Part 3 | The Advocates | p. 227 |
18 | Saving Michael Lowry | p. 229 |
19 | A Little Help from His Friends | p. 243 |
20 | The Ruse | p. 257 |
21 | Matthew Fenner | p. 273 |
22 | Danielle's Salvation | p. 288 |
23 | The Wedding | p. 298 |
24 | The Fight for Justice | p. 306 |
25 | The Escape | p. 316 |
26 | Perseverance and Redemption | p. 333 |
27 | The Reunion | p. 348 |
Epilogue | p. 358 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 383 | |
Glossary | p. 385 | |
Notes on Sources | p. 387 | |
Books | p. 407 | |
Newspapers | p. 409 |