A FORMER teacher has told how she ended up in a cult for 20 years amid her family's fears she had been kidnapped following a trip to the Edinburgh fringe. Anthea Church, of Tunbridge Wells, used to get up in…[Continue Reading...]
Caty Reay was brought up in a cult known as the Curly Thornton Ministries, started by evangelist and politician Emmett "Curly" Thornton who reportedly beat and sexually abused his followers. Reay experienced sexual abuse at an early age. For Reay…[Continue Reading...]
Oluchukwu Azikiwe never thought about whether or not she was part of a cult until her newfound faith turned into an obsession that almost broke her. Looking back, Azikiwe thinks she could have seen the peculiarities of the group, but…[Continue Reading...]
SALT LAKE CITY — Charlene Jeffs smiles as she talks about finding her personal freedom since leaving the Fundamentalist LDS Church. "I've been free," she said in an interview Friday with FOX 13 News. "I don’t have to ask permission…[Continue Reading...]
A former Jehovah's Witness whose parents were siblings has opened up about their twisted relationship, which saw them having seven children together. Vanessa, from northeast Ohio, appeared on a recent episode of the We're All Insane podcast alongside host Devorah…[Continue Reading...]
Now, Katurah is a civil rights lawyer for a top firm in the USA, with eight years of experience, but life growing up was tough for the Survivor 45 cast member. The 35-year-old grew up in St. Louis and now…[Continue Reading...]
In the house I grew up in, we had an altar made of Japanese cypress. It housed carved wooden tablets for my ancestors — small tombstones embossed with golden Japanese calligraphy. The most recently departed ones had names. Not their…[Continue Reading...]
(RNS) — Kiersten White had a happy, protected childhood. Growing up in Highland, Utah, the award-winning novelist attended a high school that was 96% Mormon. She descended from pioneers who crossed the plains in the 1800s to live out their…[Continue Reading...]
COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — Growing up, Briell Decker had 13 siblings, two mothers and a father who had more than 70 wives. Now, she's living life on her own. Decker was raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…[Continue Reading...]
Growing up a gay, Mormon, Latino in south Texas was not easy. While I was surrounded by many Latine people, I knew the world at large did not see us as the loving and diverse community that we are. On…[Continue Reading...]
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