Broken Faith Inside one of America's Most Dangerous Cults

Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr

eBook - 2020

*An NPR Best Book of the Year*A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020"I can't imagine a more important book."—Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling authorAn explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader is a master of manipulationIn 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 t...hey can marry—even when they can have sex.Based on hundreds of interviews, secretly recorded conversations, and thousands of pages... more