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Welcome to the secret Australian cult where members live under shocking rules including being told what to eat and to exercise for two hours a day.
A new investigation by The Courier-Mail has revealed the shocking details of daily life in a cult that has communes across Australia.
With echoes of the hit novel and TV series The Handmaid’s Tale, the explosive Prayed Upon video miniseries – launched today – uncovers for the first time the cult’s controlling way of life.
The Anglican Catholic Mission Community religious cult, formerly known as the Jesus People of North Queensland, also has a huge compound in North Queensland as well as communes in Parkes and Sydney in NSW, as well as overseas.
Read all the rules inside the Aussie cult
One former member said she lost more than 30kg in the first two months she lived in the Sydney arm of the cult, run by a leader called a “reshan”.
This documentary is about the many scandals of TLC's most beloved Christian family and their fundamentalist cult, The Institute of Basic Life Principles.
this just keeps getting better and better left one vesta worshipping cover upper sect f and joined another vesta worshipping cover upper sect
Jinger Duggar Vuolo, author of "Free Indeed," wife of "pastor" Jeremy Vuolo, daughter of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, sister of convicted pedophile Josh Duggar, Joined is publicly associated with Grace Community Church, whose pastor is John MacArthur, who knowingly covered up pedophiles and spousal abusers
Prominent Arkansas Baptist Church Kept Former Staffer’s Child Sex Abuse Secret for 7 Years
One of the most prominent Southern Baptist churches in Arkansas is embroiled in controversy for failing to disclose child abuse by a former youth minister for more than seven years. During that time, the abuser was hired as a children’s ministry director at another Baptist church.
The controversy concerns Patrick Stephen Miller, who served as assistant director of children’s ministry at Immanuel Baptist Church (IBC) in Little Rock, Ark., from May 2014 to January 2016.
Miller was arrested in December 2018 and charged with second-degree assault for molesting a girl in an IBC Sunday school classroom in 2015. In a plea deal in January 2022, Miller, now 37, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment.
However, in March 2016, about two months after Miller left his job at IBC, families told IBC leaders that Miller had molested their children, according to a statement released to The Roys Report (TRR) by IBC.
The church said it immediately reported the crimes to authorities.
Yet Miller was subsequently hired as a children’s ministry staff member at First Moore Baptist in Moore, Okla., where he served until July 2018, according to an article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Plus, IBC did not tell its congregation about Miller’s crime until last Sunday—just hours after the Democrat-Gazette published its article, revealing the lack of disclosure. According to the Gazette, most members at IBC didn’t know Miller had been charged or convicted of a crime.
After instructing all “guests” to exit the sanctuary because IBC was having a “family meeting,” IBC Pastor Steven Smith apologized for not informing the congregation sooner, according to a second article and recording published by the Gazette.
“I wish we would have told you about these crimes sooner,” said Smith. “. . . We recognize the importance of treating abuse behavior seriously. We intend to honor Christ in the way we care for anyone who’s experienced past abuse.”
The co-founder of the prominent parental rights organization Moms for Liberty has been asked to resign from her position on a Florida school board amid a sex scandal involving her and her husband, who is chair of the Florida Republican Party.
Bridget Ziegler, elected to the Sarasota County Board of Education in 2022, was asked to resign by the other four members in a nonbinding resolution Tuesday night. The board members cited "recent occurrences" that involve Ziegler "that have become public as a result of a law enforcement investigation."
An affidavit obtained by the Florida Center for Government Accountability revealed that Ziegler had previously engaged in a three-way sexual encounter with her husband, Christian Ziegler, and another woman.
According to the affidavit, the trio was scheduled to meet for another group sexual encounter at the unnamed woman's home on Oct. 2, but the woman backed out upon learning that Bridget Ziegler was unable to make it.
The woman alleges that Christian Ziegler showed up at her place anyway and raped her. Christian Ziegler has maintained his innocence and insists that the encounter was consensual.
Steven W. Smith, pastor of the more than century-old Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, apologized to his congregation Sunday for not disclosing that a former church official charged with guiding children had been credibly accused of abusing minors at the church while their parents were busy with worship.
The revelation was made hours after the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published an article about the previously undisclosed allegations against the former church official, Patrick Stephen Miller. Miller served as Immanuel Baptist Church's assistant director of children's ministry until he left the job in January 2016, a year before Smith became pastor of the congregation, the publication reported.
Miller, now 37, was accused of taking a child into a dark closet in 2015 and abusing her. He allegedly sat her on his lap, placed his hands down her pants and beneath her shirt, and sexually assaulted her, the Democrat-Gazette added. He was not arrested until Dec. 18. In January 2019 he was charged with second-degree sexual assault, a felony, but he only pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment in January 2022, which happens when a defendant "strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise touches a person, subjects that person to offensive physical contact or attempts or threatens to do so."
the man who wrote the song "amazing grace" was a slave trader
If i was not part of the Canadian Branch Of The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod i would be looking to join a branch of Eastern Christianity (Coptic and Oriental types)
Steve Baughman: The Man Who Broke The Ravi Zacharias Scandals || Interview with Glen Scrivener
How many Christian marriages have abuse (intimate partner violence)?
It’s difficult to believe, but the conservative pro-marriage researchers at the Institute for Family Studies, have reported that 1-in-4 highly religious U.S. marriages have intimate partner violence.
That’s a shocking claim, but apparently they’ve got the evidence.
The conservative pro-family pro-church organization Institute for Family Studies, published a report by researchers DeRose, Johnson and Wang, who studied intimate partner violence in deeply religious couples in 11 countries, including the U.S.
They found that in the U.S., about 1-in-4 couples reported intimate partner (IPV) in their current relationship. And, sadly, in the U.S. the finding was the same whether they were highly religious or not. In other countries, religion made a difference, but not in the U.S. (See pages 36-37. Page 37 shows that U.S. rates are different than other peer countries.)
Douglas Phillips resigned as director of Vision Forum Ministries a few days ago, citing a “lengthy, inappropriate relationship with a woman” other than his wife, Beall. You can read his statement here.
If you know who Douglas Phillips is at all, chances are you know exactly who he is. He is a celebrity within conservative homeschooling, a proponent not only of homeschooling but of a very rigid family structure that he calls “Biblical Patriarchy”. According to Phillips the righteous will live by rules; lots and lots of rules: biblical manhood and womanhood, homeschooling, family integrated church, courtship, young earth creationism, stay-at-home daughters, quiverfull, Reconstructionism. He speaks widely and has been, perhaps, the most powerful single figure in the shaping of the Fundamentalist homeschooling subculture.
LifeWay Study Shows 1 in 10 Young Protestants Have Left the Church Due to Sexual Abuse
The Lifeway Research conducted a 2019 Sexual Misconduct and Churchgoers Study found that about 10 percent of all Protestant churchgoers below 35 years of age have abandoned their church[/tweetit] as they harbored the perception of sexual misconduct not being taken seriously. This is twice as many as five percent of all the churchgoers who have previously done the same. When it comes to the younger demographic, about nine percent said that they have stopped attending their congregation due to feeling unsafe from misconduct.
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Churchgoers aged between 18 years to 34 years are more probable compared to older generations when it comes to reporting sexual harassment. These ranged from prolonged glances and sexual comments inside a church and know others who are being victimized. About 23 percent of the 1,815 Americans polled express this opinion.
There is an important factor at work: the younger churchgoers are nearest to the ages when most sexual assaults take place. The maximum risk is present in the 12 to 34 years age span, and the most vulnerable period begins at 16 years of age and ends at 19 years. Although 14 percent of the 18 to 34 age group say that sexual advances made by church people have inhibited them from attending, only one percent over 65 years of age reported the same. The youngest generation is two times more than the oldest generation to say that they have suffered sexual harassment in the form of sexualized jokes and compliments, prolonged glances, or sexting.
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