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Angela

It’s Christmas morning here in Australia. Anyway I first posted here on Friday, July 24th, 2009 and I just wanted to submit an update. So here follows another moment purging of my pent up angst, in...

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Jeffery

I was born into the Worldwide Church of God (Houston East) in 1976. I have mixed feelings about the experience. I was spanked (with a belt, never a paddle) frequently, couldn’t associate with school...

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James

I was born in 1966. I grew up in this church, and I will regret that the rest of my life. We lived in Monroe, Louisiana. I think back on those days and only wish it had never happened. My parents were...

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Sam

I don’t remember a lot about exact dates (I’m 75), but I think I yanked my wife and small children out of the Baptist church and into Radio Church (later WCG) around 1961. She became “the Unconverted...

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Son of Ham

Glynn Washington tells us what it’s like to grow up black in a white supremacist Jesus Cult. This is a segment from the WFMU radio program Too Much Information. The entire 3-episode cycle “The Man...

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Christina: Epiphany

I was in the Worldwide Church of God from birth (1975) until midway through my freshman year of college – although the seeds of doubt started well before that. We moved quite a bit when I was younger,...

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Joy

It’s strange to look back, somewhat sentimentally, on the habits and idiosyncrasies I was raised with. A now defunct fringe religious group (some would say cult) had an enormous part to play in making...

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Mark

In order to begin my personal WCG story, I looked into some things others had written.  I clicked on a link Robert had provided in the “Requirements for posters” paragraph of his remarkable website....

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Jeff

Thank you for your blog, I have wondered for years what were others feeling? I am an ex WCG member, from San Jose Ca. I was born and raised in this crap. I was at the Holy Day when Fred Culter pulled...

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Olivia

My name is Olivia and I was born into the Worldwide Church of God in New Zealand. My story begins before my birth with my parents, both recently divorced single parents. I have no idea why my father...

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Emily

A couple of months ago I befriended someone from my Church days on Facebook that I haven’t had contact with for about 30 years. I noticed his wife openly made references to things like “divine light,”...

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