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• David Berg
  ...David''',<ref name="KingDavid"/> '''Father David''', '''Chairman Mo''', '''David Fontaine''', '''Dad''', and '''Grandpa'''. [[Image:David_Berg-002.jpg|thumb|230px|David Berg]]
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• David Brandt Berg
  #redirect [[David Berg]]
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• Krounapple v. Children of God, David Brandt Berg, et. al. 77CV-11-4706
  ...CHILDREN OF GOD]], DAVID BRANDT, AKA [[David Berg|DAVID BERG]], AKA MOSES DAVID, et al. In [[1976]] Defendant [[David Berg]], aka David Brandt, aka David Moses began to prescribe certain conduct for the female members and taught
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: David Berg, founder of '60s `Jesus freaks,' dies in seclusion at 75
  ==David Berg, founder of '60s `Jesus freaks,' dies in seclusion at 75== '''OBITUARY: David Brandt Berg, also known as Moses David, founder of the Children of God movement - the original "Jesus freaks" of t
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• Main Page
  *'''[[Merry Berg]]''' &mdash; Granddaughter of [[David Berg]] who has spoken out against abuse
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• Flirty Fishing
  ...r part of the [[1970s|'70s]] and early [[1980s|'80s]], <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[David Berg]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, responding in part to the sexual liberality of th *[http://www.thefamily.org/ourfounder/tribute/trib_21.htm David Berg Tribute: Flirty Fishing] &mdash; From the official Family website
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• David Berg
  ...David''',<ref name="KingDavid"/> '''Father David''', '''Chairman Mo''', '''David Fontaine''', '''Dad''', and '''Grandpa'''. [[Image:David_Berg-002.jpg|thumb|230px|David Berg]]
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• Karen Zerby
  aliases = Maria David, Maria Berg,<br />Maria Fontaine, Mama<br />Maria, Queen Maria | spouses = [[David Berg]], [[Steven Douglas Kelly|Steven Kelly]] |
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• Steven Douglas Kelly
  ...ey]] (father of [[Christina Teresa Zerby|Christina "Techi" Zerby]]) left [[David Berg]] and Karen Zerby, they were looking for a replacement. Kelly was on t ...10px; border: 2px dotted green;"><small style="color:green;">48.</small> [David Berg:] Has anybody ever punished you like that before? (MB: Yes) Who? (MB:
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• 1919
  *On February 18^th, [[David Berg]] is born.
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• United States
  ...od, David Brandt Berg, et. al. 77CV-11-4706|Krounapple v. Children of God, David Brandt Berg, et. al.]]''
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• Reorganization Nationalization Revolution
  In [[1978]], [[David Berg]] enacted the '''Reorganization Nationalization Revolution''' (or '''R ...nisation Nationalisation Revolution!"]] <small>(ML 650)</small> &mdash; By David Berg, 1978-01
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• Houston Chronicle: Children of God Cult Returns as The Family
  What they have not brought is their fugitive prophet, [[David Berg|David Brant Berg]]. ...wn, but more infamous, for Berg’s views on sex with children. “[[Moses David]]” or “[[Dad]],” as he is called in the group, and inner circle publi
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• Good News magazine
  ...s set forth as being by Jesus speaking in [[prophecy]], or Dad (deceased [[David Berg]]) speaking from beyond the grave.
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• Grant can go fuck himself
  To me, what [[David Berg|Berg]], [[Karen Zerby|Mama Maria]], Queen [[Steven Douglas Kelly|Peter
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• Magic Green Shirt
  '''''The Magic Green Shirt''''' is a Family publication, written by [[David Berg]], in which he describes a dream of his adopted son, "[[Davidito]]," b ...The Magic Green Shirt!&mdash;A Dream?] <small>(ML 629)</small> &mdash; By David Berg, [[1977]]-10-25
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• Ricky Rodriguez
  ...rg in Europe, Asia, and Canada. He was considered to be the adopted son of David Berg although no official adoption ever took place. He is also the half-bro From his birth, David Berg and Karen Zerby determined to make Rick a poster boy for their followe
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• Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family
  ...group. Beginning in the [[1970s]], policies that the group’s founder, [[David Berg]], initiated and imposed upon his members laid the groundwork for this ...” Berg told his followers, “and teach him well the words of his father David, that he may know what is truth, that he may feed My people” (Berg, 1977b
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• Open Letter to President and Mrs. Clinton on "The Family Singers"
  ...[[Children of God]]" or COG, a Bible based cult founded by [[David Berg]]. David Berg was a known alcoholic and pedophile who sexually molested his own daug ...4). "While on the airplane [Davidito] said, 'Hey! Let's love-up!' I said, 'David, we can't do that here!' and he said 'Oh, I know why! Because we'd probably
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• Charter
  In February of [[1995]], following the death of [[David Berg]], [[The Family International]] introduced their '''''Love Charter''''
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• Natural law
  ...ash; an appeal to "natural law" &mdash; was a common fallacy employed in [[David Berg]]'s doctrines.
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• Japan
  In November [[1987]], [[David Berg]], [[Karen Zerby]] and their entourage left the [[Philippines]] and he
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• Rick Dupuy
  ...o dead wrong I can hardly bear to face you, my Family I am not worthy... [[David Berg|Dad]] pleaded for me to be able to give you this message and he even a
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Common Thread of Sexual, Spiritual Abuse Among Cult Defectors Who Killed Themselves
  ...s of the sect founded in the late [[1960s]] by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]] and now known as [[the Family International]] acknowledge th ...I gotta go. I gotta go.' He was getting incoherent and mumbling 'Moses ... David ... mind control.'
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• World Services
  ...heavily subsidized or fully supported by funds allotted them formerly by [[David Berg]], and now [[Karen Zerby]] and [[Steven Kelly]]. Members of such units *[[David Forsberg]]
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• Angela Smith
  ...Virginia, Smith graduated at Edison H.S., Fairfax Co. She worked in the [[David Berg]] household as a secretary and played a limited role in the sexual abu ...VA, area; her aunt and cousins in the San Jose, CA, area; and her partner, David, of Palo Alto, CA. Her father, John Sr., passed away in [[2004]].
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• Berg
  *[[David Berg]]
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• Merry Jolene Berg
  ...ily]] as '''Mene''', was a granddaughter of the [[cult|cult's]] founder, [[David Berg]]. She was born on 5 June 1972 to [[Paul Brandt Berg|Paul "Aaron" Berg ...iptease dances along with other Family women and young girls, recorded for David Berg. She has testified that while in Greece she was sexually abused by mul
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• Merry's Story
  ''[[David Berg]]'s grand-daughter was born into the [[Children of God]], and suffered ...n the group. Aaron ([[Paul Brandt Berg]]) was David Berg's son. Therefore, David Berg is my grandfather. When I was still just a baby, my father died. The m
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• Swats
  ...stered in [[The Family]] differed from case to case and rhetoric used by [[David Berg]] is sometimes construed as encouraging more brutal beatings, as his w
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• Berg on Rape
  [[David Berg]] criticized "[[man's laws]]" on rape and went so far as to equate rap ...vil Hates Sex|The Devil Hates Sex! -- But God loves it!]]'''" (ML 999), by David Berg &mdash;''
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• Berg on Incest
  [[David Berg]], deceased founder and [[prophecy|prophetic]] leader of [[The Family *[[David Berg#Alleged sexual abuse|Alleged sexual abuse by David Berg]]
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• Heaven's Girl
  ...ildren in [[The Family]]. The lead character, Marie Claire, was based on [[David Berg]]'s granddaughter, [[Merry Berg|Merry "Mene" Berg]]. The story was sup ...{pubs|1623|Heaven's Girl--The Supergirl of the Tribulation!}}'' &mdash; by David Berg (DFO; ML#1623), September 1983
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• Grandpa
  Term used by [[second generation]] members (children) to refer to [[David Berg]]. In contrast, [[first generation]] adult members would refer to Ber
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• Statistics
  ...5-12-06.</ref><ref>{{pubs|357|The Administration Revolution}} &mdash; by [[David Berg]]; [[Mo Letters|ML]]#357 [[DO]]; 1975-11-11.</ref>
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• All of These Things Moved Me
  ...hey asked to see some samples? The Child Abuse Statement? The Tribute to [[David Berg]]? I felt so useless. ...en's girls and boys for the last days. The Family is "the End Time army of David" and leaving it is leaving God's service; God's highest and best. God will
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• 1975
  *[[Ricky Rodriguez]] (at birth named [[David Moses Zerby]]) born to [[Karen Zerby]] on the island of [[Tenerife]]. *Bible teacher [[Joel Wordsworth]] is excommunicated by [[David Berg]] in October.
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• Story of Davidito
  ==David Berg on applying the childcare style espoused in ''The Story of Davidito''= <small style="color:green;">36</small> Sex!: Little David stood watching through the pool fence as a couple made love in the water. H
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• 1969
  *[[David Berg]] weds [[Karen Zerby]].
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• Christina Teresa Zerby
  ...]] and [[Michael Sweeney]] (aka Timothy Concerned), and step-daughter of [[David Berg]]. She is also the half-sister of [[Ricky Rodriguez]]. Known throughou In [[1987]], in a Family-produced book titled ''[[Heaven's Children]]'', David Berg published sexual fantasies about Techi (see [[Berg on Incest]]).
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• The Family International
  ...amily International was founded by claimed [[prophecy|prophetic]] leader [[David Berg]] in [[1968]] in [[Huntington Beach, California|Huntington Beach]], [[
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• Name Changes: From Children of God to The Family International
  ...concern over some of his more controversial policies, founder and leader [[David Berg]] declared in early [[1978]]:
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• 1994
  * October &mdash; [[David Berg]] dies. * [[Atlanta Journal-Constitution: David Berg, founder of '60s `Jesus freaks,' dies in seclusion at 75]] &mdash; 199
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• Abrahim
  Among the most influential of [[David Berg|David Berg's]] numerous [[spirit helper]]s, '''Abrahim''' (pronounced: Ah'-bra-he
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• Mo Letters
  [[Image:MosesDavid.png|frame|David Berg (depicted as a lion) writing the Mo Letters]] Derived from [[David Berg|David Berg's]] pseudonym, [[Moses David]], the '''Mo Letters''' were a series of more than 3000 publications (compi
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• Loving Jesus
  ...aith or who wants it can ask Me for it. Just like your [[David Berg|Father David]] explained to you that if you wanted to fuck him in the spirit, you could ...ther than Jesus, in this case with deceased Family International founder [[David Berg]]. Before his death in [[1994]], Berg frequently described engaging in
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• Berg on Homosexuality
  Incongruous with his sexually charged doctrines, [[David Berg]] spoke strongly against male [[homosexuality]], condemning it harshly ...HomeARC ML 1110|Warning To All Sodomites!]] &mdash; By [[David Berg|Father David]]; [[DFO]]#1110; [[1981]]-10-22.</ref> is dedicated to the subject of male
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• Berg on Pedophilia
  [[David Berg]] practiced and condoned [[:Category:Pedophilia|pedophilia]], seeing " *[[David Berg#Alleged sexual abuse|Alleged sexual abuse by David Berg]]
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• Statement by Family spokesperson Claire Borowik regarding Ricky's death
  ...s sad to announce the recent death of [[Ricky Rodriguez]], (son of [[Maria David]], who with her husband is the administrative and spiritual overseer of The ...departed. In 1994 and 1995, in open letters to former members and in Maria David's "An Answer to Him that Asketh," Family leadership officially addressed co
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• River Phoenix
  "The group was being distorted by a leader <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[David Berg]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> who was getting very full of power and wealthy", s ...ey had taught me to love the Lord, and to love Grandpa <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[David Berg]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Papa Lion.&mdash;And I did. I loved him very much
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• Ben Farnsworth
  ...]], was a longtime [[World Services]] staff member, working closely with [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby]].
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• The End-Time Witnesses
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• No Regrets
  ...not as the loving, anointed leaders and shepherds of the end-time army of David, but rather as abusive, controlling, manipulative, self-centred, deceitful, ...nally responsible for children in The Family being sexually abused. Father David wrote a series of letters concerning sexual behaviour. The judgement refers
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• Mo
  ...n of God]] founder [[David Berg]], derived from another pseudonym, [[Moses David]].
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• Dad
  Term used by [[first generation]] adult members to refer to [[David Berg]].
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• Disciple
  ...for any of its practices and doctrines (specifically required to believe [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby]] are [[end-time]] prophets appointed by God), exp
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• The Cult Killed Rick!
  ...m people like Merilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Richard Nixon, River Phoenix, David Berg of course, and now Rick Dupui. Here is the message from the dead, prec
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• What Happened to Rick Dupuy/Watchman?
  ...id Berg]] or MO is a fulfillment of the verses in Ezekiel chapter 34 about David the "one shepherd". Any student of Bible prophecy can show you these predic When David Berg dissolved the Children of God leadership structure in 1978, so he coul
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• The Last State
  ...a verbatim exchange between [[Merry Berg]] at age 14 and her grandfather [[David Berg]], referred to as "Dad". "MB" is Merry Berg.
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• 1972
  *[[David Berg]], now calling himself [[Moses David]] or [[Father David]], claims to be God's [[Endtime Prophet]] foretold in the [[Bible]]. ...Mene) is born to David Berg's eldest son, [[Paul Brandt Berg]] (aka Aaron David).
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• 1987
  *[[David Berg]] publishes fantasies of having sex with [[Techi|his step-daughter]] i *[[David Berg]], [[Karen Zerby]] and their entourage leave the [[Philippines]] for [
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• 1968
  *[[David Berg]]'s mother [[Virginia Lee Brandt]] dies.
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• Katherine Rianna Smith
  Pseudonyms include '''Maria''', '''Mama''', '''Maria Fontaine''', '''Maria David''', '''Maria Berg''', or '''Queen Maria'''.
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Hewlett grant went to cult-linked charity
  ...eligious sect was started in the late 1960s by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], whose blend of Christian witness and sexual freedom attract
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• Basic Training Handbook
  ...Your Father!] <small> (1 page, 220k)</small> &ndash; page 1. &mdash; by [[David Berg]], ML DO 2056. ...Fever!] <small> (7 pages, 1.61MB)</small> &ndash; pages 66-72. &mdash; by David Berg, ML DO 2236.
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• 1973
  * July &mdash; [[David Berg]] proclaims his [[Mo Letters]] the [[Word of God]] with authority over
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...ad been much conversation among the leadership about the extent to which [[David Berg|Berg]] himself had participated in child sexual abuse and there was so
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• Hugo Westphal
  ...enesis]]". When it was discovered that their baby's skull was fractured, [[David Berg]] accused Genesis of being a witch, claimed it was her fault, and had ...hysical Abuse|physical abuse]] against women and children, as explained by David Berg below:
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• Peter Bevan Riddell
  ...vices]] (WS), and was in frequent contact with [[Karen Zerby]], the late [[David Berg]], and other top leaders.
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• Man's laws
  A term often used by [[David Berg]] as a diminuitive for laws with which he did not agree. He claimed hi
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• Lurana Nolind Berg
  [[Image:Esther David-01.png|thumb|Esther David, [[1975]]]] ...group members) &mdash; wife of [[Jonathan Berg]] and daughter-in-law to [[David Berg]].
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• Antichrist
  In the [[Mo Letters]], [[David Berg]] frequently refered to Communists, Jews, Africans and numerous politi
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• Moses David
  A pseudonym for [[David Berg]], often abbreviated as [[Mo]].
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• Ricky Rodriguez Video Transcript
  ...ause I wasn't allowed to watch that many. Yeah sure, I watched some with [[David Berg|Berg]] and all, but shit. It's kinda cool to watch movies now. So, uh,
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• Teenagers - Where It's At
  By [[David Berg]] &mdash; 20 December 1982 (DFO#1398)
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• Space City
  ...blical]] Book of Revelation describes a city called '''New Jerusalem'''. [[David Berg]] believed and taught that this "'''Space City'''" (or '''Heaven''') e
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• Paul Peloquin
  ...ercourse with Rachael and being filmed doing it. The films were made for [[David Berg|Berg]].
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• Father David
  Pseudonym for [[David Berg]]
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• Complete Judgment of Lord Justice Ward
  ...vement, which is a preferable expression to "cult," was founded and led by David "Moses" Berg. They live by the Law of Love, the central principle of which ...you will." The Defendant's and the group's love for their leader, "Father David" is so resolute that the Plaintiff invites me to consider whether, as Porti
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• Christian Vocational College
  ...w a paper in front of him with the lines drawn down it. It was like what [[David Berg|Dad]] says‚ that whenever [[Jane Miller Berg|Grandmother]] had a maj 57. Then I got the words, "Behold, for him that hath the key of [[David Berg|David]], I will open doors that no man can shut, and close doors that no man can
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• 1970
  ...0028.shtml Part 1], [http://www.exfamily.org/pubs/ml/b4/ml0029.shtml 2]) [[David Berg|Berg]] announces he will live apart from his followers as the [[Childr
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• 1974
  *[[David Berg]] introduces [[Flirty Fishing]].
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• 1986
  ...r to this, the [[:Category: Family Publications|published teachings]] of [[David Berg]] sanctioned such [[:Category:Practices|practices]].
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• Huntington Beach, California
  ...]. [[The Family]] traces its origins to this town in [[1968]]. Founder [[David Berg]], his wife [[Jane Miller Berg]], and their teenage children began a m
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• California
  ...[[Huntington Beach, California]], the [[Children of God]] was founded by [[David Berg]]. Berg let his hair and beard grow wild, and embraced California's hi
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• Life with Grandpa - the Mene Story
  ...y tells what life growing up with Berg and Zerby in his own words. Mene is David Berg's grandaughter, [[Merry Berg]]. ...r at times demented leader. They [The Family] must acknowledge that what [[David Berg]] did to his granddaughter was wrong, not just a mistake, but inexcusa
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• Tucson Citizen: Police probe ties between victim, killer
  By ''DAVID L. TEIBEL and BLAKE MORLOCK'' Its founder, [[David Berg | David Brandt Berg]] was the father figure in Rodriguez's life, Jones said.
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Murder-suicide case in desert evangelical sex cult
  ...ting an apparent murder-suicide involving the son of [[Karen Zerby | Maria David]], the prophet and spiritual leader of [[the Family]], an international eva ...apparent of the sect, founded in the late 1960s by the late [[David Berg | David "Moses" Berg]].
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• Tucson Citizen: Murder suspect, a suicide, raised by cult to lead
  By ''BLAKE MORLOCK and DAVID L. TEIBEL'' ...was born to [[Karen Zerby]], who ran the Family along with its founder, [[David Berg]]. Rodriguez did not know his real father but Berg filled that role, J
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Rage turns to vengeance against "Family"
  ...eligious sect founded in the late [[1960s]] by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]]. Rodriguez was the only son of [[Karen Zerby|Karen "Maria David" Zerby]], the current prophetess and spiritual leader of the Family Interna
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Ex-sect members fear new violence
  Rodriguez, the only son of sect leader [[Karen Zerby | Karen "Maria David" Zerby]], grew up in the Children of God as "Davidito," the revered prince ...babbling about the founder of the Children of God, the late [[David Berg | David "Moses" Berg]], before he fled McNair's Kobe apartment, ran to a nearby bui
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• San Francisco Chronicle: On tape, son of 'prophet' declares war on mother
  Oakland native [[David Berg | David "Moses" Berg]], the founding seer of the [[Children of God]], put forth a p
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• San Francisco Chronicle: IRS documents show ties between charity, sex cult
  ...n of God]], was started in the late 1960s by Oakland native [[David Berg | David "Moses" Berg]], who attracted tens of thousands of devotees in the 1970s wi
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• Los Angeles Times: Fringe Group at Center of Deaths
  ...s the [[Children of God]], the group began in the late 1960s, founded by [[David Berg]], who preached the Gospel to the hippies of Southern California. ...s that a comet would doom America. He called himself "Mo," short for Moses David.
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• Los Angeles Times: Tragic Legacies of a Sex-Based Religion: Murder and Suicide
  ...of how it worked. Almost all he'd learned in life had come from one man, [[David Berg]], who founded the group and kept its members isolated, indoctrinated Berg and Zerby originally named the baby David Moses Zerby after themselves. But they openly celebrated his origins.
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• New York Times: Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult
  The founder of the Children of God was [[David Berg | David Brandt Berg]], a son of Pentecostal evangelists. In the late 60's, he attra
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• London Times: Revenge of a son on cult of free love
  ...to all members of the Children of God as Davidito. His late stepfather, [[David Berg]], founded the cult in the 1960s and sent female members “[[Flirty F
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Daughter of Family's Founder Renounces His Teachings
  ...father as "Dad." But in the early 1970s, Dad revealed himself to be "Moses David, God's Endtime Prophet." Moses, it turned out, had a new vision of his daug "David Berg - in a state of rebellion against the 'church system,' the American go
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Escaping a Free Love Legacy Children of God sect hopes it can overcome sexy image
  ...iece for God. Few of those prophets, however, were as obsessed with sex as David Berg. "We have a sexy God and a sexy religion with a very sexy leader with
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Sex: Ex-member believed abuse 'normal'
  ...od — a religious sect founded in [[1968]] by Oakland native [[David Berg|David “Moses” Berg]].
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• The Alcoholic Prophet
  The following are verbatim "[[Mo]] quotes" from the letters of [[David Berg]], founder and prophet of the [[Children of God]] ''(aka [[The Family| ...and openeth his mouth, that he may speak the words of God! (Tongues) Poor David! He's so weak--so much flesh. He cannot be freed except through wine, his s
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• Heavenly City School
  In November [[1987]], [[David Berg]], [[Karen Zerby]] and their entourage left the [[Philippines]] and he
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• Endtime
  ...ref>See also: "[[HomeARC ML 0156|The 70-Years Prophecy of the End]]"; By [[David Berg]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#156 [[GP]]; [[1972]]-03-01.</ref> When Christ fail David Berg outlined the 16 major events of the Endtime as follows:<ref>[http://ww
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• Bible Album
  ...ngers include Joan "of Arc" Alexander, [[Lawrence Pizzuto]] (aka Jonas), [[David Rugely]] (aka Simon Black), Russell McClelland (aka Jeremiah Singer), Micah || "Shepherd Boy / David" || 1:53 || Joan, Micah, and Jonas || Fridley-Allen
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• Babylon the Whore
  ...]] analogy to an apocalyptic nation described in the book of Revelation. [[David Berg]] believed and taught that this nation was the [[United States|United
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• Bible woman
  ...n Maid]]'', ''Revolutionary Women'', and ''Come On, Ma! Burn Ya' Bra!'', [[David Berg]] expressed his preference for women with long flowing hair, little or
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• Churchianity
  A term used by [[David Berg]] to describe what he considered to be a stagnant, old-fashined flavor
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• Sex, Sin and Sacrilege! Zerby's Dirty Revelation
  ...he Children of God cult is proving to be just as bad as the cult's founder David Berg. The following are excerpts from a series of new internal publications ...hard, but I also knew I could reveal them to My children, the children of David. 108. In the bed of love, I love to participate and be one with you. 109.Do
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• Louris Nielson
  ...uris was recruited to illegally obtain Canadian passports for several of [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby]]'s staff, in accordance with which she traveled t
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• True Komix - Little Flirty Fishy
  ==What David Berg had to say about children reading True Komix== '''Question''': What does [[David Berg|Dad]] think about reading to our children some of the favorite classic
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• Prophecy
  ...tegory:Spirit World|Spirit World]], commonly from Jesus or group founder [[David Berg]] beyond the grave. ...about how members around the world might receive different messages from [[David Berg]] simultaneously, [[Karen Zerby]] has explained that the deceased Berg
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• 1990s
  In the '''1990s''', [[David Berg|David Berg's]] death marked a transition in [[:Category:Leaders|leadership]] to [ *[[1994]] &mdash; Death of [[David Berg]]
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• Life with Grandpa
  A series of publications, in comic book format, featuring life in David "[[Grandpa]]" Berg's household. Prominent persons in these stories were: *[[David Berg]] &mdash; "Grandpa"
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• Davida Kelley
  ...ara "Davidito" Kelley]] and [[Alfred Strickland Kelley]]. She grew up in [[David Berg]]'s household along with [[Ricky Rodriguez]] (aka "Davidito") and thro
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• Hitchhiking spirit
  [[David Berg]] had a recurring interest in the [[Occult]], and demon [[possession]]
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• Sex With Grandmother
  '''''"Sex With Grandmother!"''''' <small>([[DFO]] ML 1535)</small>, by [[David Berg]], [[1982]]-06-11. Click the thumbnails for full-size images.
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• Daily Telegraph: They told us we might have to die
  In the words of their late founder, [[David Berg | David "Mo" Berg]], "[[The Devil Hates Sex | ...ere teenage [[hippy | hippies]] gathered to hear the white-bearded "Father David" Berg rage against the established churches. Later, he sent them out dresse
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• Allentown Morning Call: Man battled depression before shooting sibling, self
  But its founder, [[David Berg]], and his policies quickly came under fire. One policy, called the "[
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• Arizona Daily Star: Stabber's friends blame decades of abuse in sex cult
  Rodriguez's mother, Maria David, whose real name is [[Karen Zerby]], is the current head of The Family, whi ...through Tucson in the 1970s and became the wife of the group's founder, [[David Berg]]. Berg became Rodriguez's father figure.
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• San Jose Mercury News: Group, P.A. woman's slaying intertwined
  ...Family International]], and to the group's late founder, Oakland native [[David Berg]]. ...name the [[Children of God]]. Its founder, Berg, took on the name [[Moses David]] and was known to some of his followers as "Mo," according to the group's
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• The Observer, UK: Sex cult's messiah turns killer
  ...a bizarre blend of free love and apocalyptic Christianity. Its founder, [[David Berg]], prophesied that one day Rodriguez would lead it. Yet now he is dead ...to was one of the strangest to emerge from Sixties America. Its founder, [[David Berg]], was a former preacher who had been sexually abused as a child. He s
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• Evening Standard: The Little Girl Seduced in the Name of God
  By David Cohen ...of the cult's leader, [[Karen Zerby]], and stepson of its late founder, [[David Berg]] - brutally stabbed to death his former nanny, [[Angela Smith]], 51.
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• Irish Times: Helping to Take the Cult Out of the Man
  The organisation which reared Andrew McMillion was founded by the late [[David Berg]] in 1968, during the Californian [[hippie]] era, as a fusion of Chris ...n thoughts, my own life and independence. I heard of some sick things that David Berg was doing. Losing faith in your leader was a depressing experience, an
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• FREECOG
  ...iscovery order requiring the organization to make its leaders, including [[David Berg]], available for depositions and to turn over its membership and finan ...terview in an internal [[:Category:Family Videos|Family video]] made for [[David Berg]].
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• David Brandt
  Pseudonym for '''[[David Berg]]'''. '''Brandt''' is his [[Virginia Lee Brandt|mother's]] maiden name
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• Virginia Lee Brandt
  ...}". ML#1351.</ref>) was a Christian evangelist, and mother of [[David Berg|David Brandt Berg]]. She is the daughter of Rev. Dr. [[John Lincoln Brandt]] and ...lipped and fell and broke her back in two places.<ref name="Berg172">Berg, David (1972). "{{pubs|172|Survival}}". ML#172.</ref> While recovering she had a r
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• Alfred Strickland Kelley
  He was a long-time member of [[David Berg|Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby|Zerby]]'s household. He was last known to be
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• Canning
  ...nning is generally not considered truly [[witnessing]]. For this reason, [[David Berg]] once forbade canning in a [[Good News magazine]] titled "''[http://w
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• Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest
  ...man Catholic, but for the past 22 years a follower of "[[David Berg|Father David]]," a reclusive prophet who foretells the coming of a dictator called the a The deaths of David Koresh and his Branch Davidian followers in April after a standoff with fed
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• Washington Post: 30 Members of Children Of God Arrested
  The cult, which was founded in [[1968]] by Californian [[David Berg]], was banned in France in [[1978]] after stories began to circulate o
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• Hong Kong Goolagong
  The name “Goolagong” was revealed by [[David Berg]] in a coughing fit where “every cough was a word and &hellip; every ...gong!&ndash;The Battle of the Bosoms!]" <small>(ML 980)</small> &mdash; by David Berg, 1981-03-26
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• Corporal punishment
  *{{pubs|2066|Dad's Guidelines for Teen Discipline}} &mdash; by [[David Berg]], 1985-10.
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• The Test of Faith
  ''--By [[David Berg|Father David]], [[1981]]-11-10 (DFO #1281)'' ...ithout [[Alfred Strickland Kelley|Alfred]] here and tape [[Ricky Rodriguez|David's]] verses on my own. It was a little doubt.) It's like my problem with swa
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• 1979
  ...706|awarded $1,000,000]] in her case against the [[Children of God]] and [[David Berg]] in the [[United States]].
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• Bergisms
  '''Bergisms''' refer to [[David Berg]]'s personal idiosyncrasies for the administration of [[The Family Int
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• Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God
  ...nty of the members including, [[Jonathan Berg]] and [[Paul Berg]], sons of David Berg, jumped bail set at an aggregate of $34, 500 and arrest warrants were ...corporate entities, controlled by Rev. [[Fred Jordan]], former employer of David Berg.
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• Spotlight
  *'''[[Merry Berg]]''' &mdash; Granddaughter of [[David Berg]] who has spoken out about abuse ...[[Paul Brandt Berg]] &mdash; Eldest son of Family International founder [[David Berg]]
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• More Madness from Mama Maria
  ...u had to accept totally by faith! -That Dad was God's Endtime Prophet, the David foretold in numerous Bible prophecies [Berg is probably the greatest false ...ionship, a lover relationship. Thank You, Jesus, that through the Words of David You have set us free in every way - free to love each other sexually [the c
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• No Real Changes in the "Children of God" Cult
  ...ons made by his detractors, the world is a better place because of him." ("David Brandt Berg.1919-1994. A Tribute to the Man, His Mission and His Message" [ ...eting they "read the famous, `Love Never Fails,' talk from [their] beloved David [Berg], a letter on which all could agree and unite." (NDN Vol. 3 #1 p. 3).
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• I Almost Didn't Make It
  ...ers of the Children of God were almost completely unaware of the fact that David Berg, the cult's founder, was practicing incest and that the inner circle a ...mbers had just moved in our home at this time. One of them was Faith Berg, David Berg's daughter. I need to get into some detail about the kind of people I
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• Children of God. Family of Love. The Family
  ...f His children." At Anaheim Christian Center in Orange County, California, David Berg, the group’s founder, interrupted the preaching, quoting a contradic ...ler crying fell in front of Berg begging him and saying: "Have mercy on me David." Both her sons, Aaron and Jonathan aka Hosea, prophesied against their own
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• Techi's Life Story
  ...ges 1 and 2, including one after she performed in a videotaped dance for [[David Berg]]. *Page 208 has the title, "SEX & CLEANLINESS--From a Talk by [[David Berg|Dad]]" and says--
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• Aaron Berg
  Pseudonym of '''[[Paul Brandt Berg]]''', son of [[David Berg]].
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• Litness
  The term arose when [[David Berg]] wrote "{{pubs|207|Wonder Working Words}}" and "{{pubs|241|Shiners?--
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• Word of God
  ...a higher authority than the Bible. In [[1973]], group founder and leader [[David Berg]] stated:
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• Judgment of Lord Justice Ward
  ...ory:Education|education]] of children, denounce their founder [[David Berg|David Berg's]] writings, and "acknowledge that through his writings Berg was pers ...nsibilty <small>[. . .]</small> Further, in [[1980]] [[Father David|Father David's]] statements in his discourse entitled 'The Devil Hates Sex' opened the d
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• Berg and Anti-Semitism
  Following are a large number of excerpts of [[David Berg]]'s writings to the [[Children of God]]/[[Family International]] throu ...ery disturbing and hateful. xFamily.org does not endorse these writings of David Berg in any form.'''
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• True Komix
  [[Image:David-berg-tk-SHW 57C.PCX.jpg|thumb|[[David Berg]] holding the first True Komix volume.]] [[Image:David-berg-rick-rodriguez-tk-SHW 58A.PCX.jpg|thumb|David Berg reading a True Komix book with [[Rick Rodriguez]].]]
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• The Professionals
  ...have used the term "[[Gideon's band]]" frequently in the Letters, as did [[David Berg|Dad]], but that should not be seen as a derogatory term. It's not with ...e things of the world. The Lord said recently that many of the children of David have become seekers of pleasures rather than soldiers of God. What are you,
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• Jane Miller Berg
  ...ouisville, Kentucky and died 14 May 2011 in Texas) was the first wife of [[David Berg]] (married in 1944) and mother of [[Linda Berg | Linda]], [[Paul Berg ...nted a much younger man, [[Stephen Bruce Ferguson]] (also known as Stephen David), to be her "consort" and [[mate]] and they lived together for many years.
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• They Staged The Whole Thing!
  ''&mdash;By [[David Berg|Father David]], DO#1340, November 1982''
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• Featured Requests
  ...production and the filming of [[dance video]]s of women and children for [[David Berg]]. --[[User:Monger|Monger]] 17:50, 12 Jun 2005 (CDT)
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• Macau Victor Camps
  ...mpound was originally rented by [[Jonathan Berg|Hosea Berg]], his [[Esther David|wife]], and their six children in [[1978|1978]]. They were later joined by
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• Faith Berg
  ...orn February 2, 1951 in Florence, Arizona) is the youngest of [[David Berg|David Berg’s]] four children. She lives in Houston, Texas. Her previous spous
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• The Old Church and The New Church
  ''&mdash;By [[David Berg|Mo]], GP#A, 26 August 1969''
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• The Girl Who Wouldn't!
  ''--By [[David Berg|Father David]], MO - DO#721 (pages 5578 – 5589), 17 June 1978'' ...she HERSELF is UNYIELDED and DISOBEDIENT!) Love Always in the Wild Wind of David.--Lori
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• Golden seeds
  ...mall> '''ART THOU SATISFIED? ([[Karen Zerby|MARIA]] NODS, BUT [[David Berg|DAVID]] LAUGHS:) THOU ART NEVER SATISFIED''' with '''all''' the words of thy Fath ''Source: "{{pubs|254|Golden Seeds!}}" <small>(ML#254)</small>, by [[David Berg]], [[1973]]-07-20.''
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• Christian Research Journal: Inside the "Heavenly Elite"
  ...social values while maintaining a "Christian" facade. Founded by "Moses" [[David Berg]] in the late 1960s as a deviant segment of the "Jesus People" movemen ...e detailed the inner workings of this cult...and the consequences of Moses David's perverted teachings on the lives of his followers.
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• Marie Claire: "Killing Myself is the Only Way Out of the Cult"
  Ricky’s stepfather was [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]] (aka "Dad"), the group’s founder and leader until his deat ..."The Story Of Lazarus", which describes Ricky at 17 months of age: "Little David stood watching through the pool fence as a couple made love in the water. H
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• Toronto Star: Sect members face sex, abduction charges
  writings of the "prophet" David Berg, a former pastor who founded the [[Children of God]] sect in
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• Toronto Star: 'We've been totally and falsely accused' Family mom insists
  ...Berg]] in California in [[1969]]. Berg, known to his followers as [[Moses David]] or [[Chairman Mo]], preached salvation through sexual promiscuity.
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• Toronto Star: Argentine court frees Canadians in sex case
  ...0s by the self-styled prophet of love, [[David Berg]], also known as Moses David and Father Mo.
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• Los Angeles Times: A True Conversion?
  ...od began in 1968 as a small, Christian commune led by traveling preacher [[David Berg]], then 49. Berg, whose parents were evangelists, initially operated o
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• Macleans: Not a normal family
  ...o avoid police harassment. "Sex with kids was clearly permissible," said [[David Hiebert]] of Richmond, B.C., a 15-year member who left the cult with his wi
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• Hamilton Spectator: Cult provided sex services to strangers
  Ms Streams said she has never met cult leader [[David Berg]], but has heard of Clara, as [[Susan Borowick]] is known within the s
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• Toronto Star: Couple held after bid to visit kids in custody
  ...national among those originally detained, but not charged. He is Jonathan David Tirone, but his home town in Canada is unknown. ...oot of the [[Children of God]] cult founded in California in [[1969]] by [[David Berg]], who in his writings urged his female followers to become "[[Hookers
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• Teens for Christ
  ...as the name of a singing group and travelling Christian ministry run by [[David Berg]] and members of his family. ...Christian coffeehouse and outreach mission run by [[Teen Challenge]] and [[David Wilkerson]].
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• Deborah Davis
  '''Deborah Davis''' (born '''Linda Berg''') is the eldest daughter of [[David Berg]] and [[Jane Miller]]. As the daughter of the founder, she was a membe *[[GN_337#FAITH_DAVID.27S_REBUTTAL.21|GN 337: Faith David's Rebuttal]] <small>([[GN]] 337 DO, Oct. 1988)</small>
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• Columbus Dispatch: Columbus woman says she escaped cult horrors
  Children are forced to work and study the writings of the cult's leader, [[David dependent on the COG (Children of God) and David Berg."
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• Columbus Dispatch: Woman seeking to get cult-controlled kin out of Argentina
  Coast. David Berg, the group's founder, has espoused free love and claims he is
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• Columbus Dispatch: Woman says siblings are brainwashed cult victims
  The sect was founded in [[1968]] in California by [[David Berg]], a traveling evangelist
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• ABC News: New Focus on Fringe Religious Sect
  Its charismatic leader, [[David Berg|Moses David Berg]], once said: "I practice what I preach! And I preach sex, boys and gi
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• Argentina
  ...ish our first colonies in...Argentina." ("[[Viva South America!]]" --Faith David 1/76, No. 57, GP. pg. 14, paragraph 81). On May 12, [[1975]], members of th -A report to [[David Berg|Dad]] from Shaul and Abiah, new [[King and Queen Servant|KQs]] of Lati
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• Houston Chronicle: Prisoner of a cult
  ...continued as a doomsayer. By [[1969]] he had changed his name to "[[Moses David]]" and billed himself as a leader who would take his people from the yoke o
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• Houston Chronicle: Sex in the name of God
  ...And it was a safe bet that few in Bahia Blanca had ever heard of "[[Moses David]]" and his peculiar, worldwide following of "sheep.' All that changed one a ===Genesis of `Moses David'===
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• Houston Chronicle: Elusive "father' of cult has held a following for 25 years
  ...nly a few of these have ever seen, much less met, the elusive [[David Berg|David Brant Berg]]. ...as, and named it the "[[Texas Soul Clinic]]." He adopted the name "[[Moses David]]" and dictated to his followers through "[[Mo Letters]]," which his artist
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• Austin American-Statesman: Teens part of group with roots in '60s
  ...to [[The Family|the Family]], an international religious group begun by [[David Berg]], a Californian who espoused a blending of Christian and sexual theol Berg, who changed his name to [[Moses David]], died in London in [[1994]] after two decades in seclusion. He had become
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• Austin American-Statesman: Music, poetry mark teens' funeral
  ...hn Wickenheiser, 16, Stephen Philip Fisher, 17, were on crutches, and Juan David Otoya Silva, 16, had cuts on his face. Jesse Wickenheiser is still in Brack
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• Houston Chronicle: Past returns to haunt 'Parent of the Year'
  ...nd his wife are members of the group, which was started in California by [[David Berg]] in the [[1960s]]. The group eventually spread worldwide after Berg f
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Alpharetta Mom Working to Rescue Children From Sex Cult in Thailand
  Formed in 1969 by David Berg, a Californian who calls himself "Moses," the group has an estimated 1
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days
  ...ed. But over the years, founder [[David Berg]], who called himself [[Moses David]], had a series of doctrinal "revelations" that loosened the rules about se The hippie days David Brandt Berg, born in Oakland, Calif., in [[1919]], was the son of two Chris
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Family: Hippie throwback or dangerous, abusive cult
  Christina said she believes founder David Berg is "a prophet of God, a loving man, a Christian man who has devoted hi ...Carol Oehler teaches her children, 3-year-old April (left) and 6-year-old David, at the Gwinnett County home she and about 20 other members of the Family s
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• Akron Beacon Journal: Former Cultist Now Preaches Against Religious Entrapment
  ...he group spread across the country and the world under the leadership of [[David Berg]].
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• Dallas Morning News: Area watchdog groups say families torn apart by sects' control of members
  ...ren of God, founded in 1968 by former television evangelist and promoter [[David Berg]], who began proselytizing and feeding hippies in the Los Angeles area Her 67-year-old father, who is dubbed [[Moses David]] and purportedly receives revelations from God, continues to write The [[M
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• Press-Enterprise: The Family's values disputed
  ...he Children of God when it was formed in Huntington Beach in [[1968]] by [[David Berg]]. In 1971, the Children of God operated a ranch in Coachella where up ...who is revered as a prophet by members, calls himself [[Dad]] and [[Moses David]]. Now 74, Berg has released more than 35,000 pages of controversial writin
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• Philadelphia Inquirer: Berg's Followers Say Death Report Won't Deter Them
  [[David Berg|David Brandt Berg]], leader of the embattled [[Children of God]] religious sect, ...ild abuse to white slavery, still expect to aggressively promote "[[Father David]]'s" apocalyptic vision of Christianity.
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• Family Care Foundation: A Front Group for The Family Cult
  ..."While on the airplane David said, ‘Hey! Let’s love-up!’ I said, ‘David, we can’t do that here!’ and he said ‘Oh, I know why! Because we’d We read in the literature that David Berg, the group’s founder, was pleased that Sarah was willing to have sex
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• The 9/11 Tragedy and The Family
  [[David Berg]] besides being a pervert, an alcoholic and a self-deluded megalomania
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• Michael Sweeney
  [[Image:David-berg-timothy-concerned-1978.jpg|thumb|300px|[[David Berg]] and Timothy Concerned. Switzerland, 1978]] ...'''Timothy Concerned''', U.S. citizen) &mdash; Former right-hand man of [[David Berg]] and father of [[Techi]]. He left the [[The Family|Family]] in [[1979
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• Philadelphia Inquirer: Church declines to aid sect accused of abusing children
  ...s dogged the Family's path since its founder, one-time hippie evangelist [[David Berg|Peter Berg]], established the sect as the Children of God in [[1969]].
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• The "Re-Organisation Nationalisation Revolution!"
  ''--By [[David Berg|Father David]], MO - [[DO]]#650, [[1978]]-01''
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• Philippines
  ...ghest officials in the nation. During the entire infiltration operation, [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby]] directed the work and counseled their teams thro David Berg wrote a pamphlet entitled ''"[http://www.exfamily.org/pubs/ml/b5/ml224
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• Does FFing Pay?
  ''--By [[David Berg|Moses David]], MO - DO#652 (pages 5046 - 5053), 6 September 1977''
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• Kennebec Journal: 20 youths arrested in raid on commune
  ...m the church to the arrests. The church, founded by a Californian named [[David Berg]] who reportedly lives in [[England]]. requires total devotion and obe
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• Daily Intelligencer: Dear God, Please give me back my son!
  ...he [[Children of God]], a group started by self proclaimed messiah Moses [[David Berg]]. ...s love. I also wanted to say the only word of God was the Bible, not Moses David letters."
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• Mansfield News Journal: Controversial Children of God Sect 'Matures'
  The mysterious "Moses," [[David Berg]], who founded the group in Huntington Beach, Calif., in [[1968]], has ...testimony, including that of [[Sarah Berg]], the former daughter-in-law of David Berg. The New York attorney general said, however, that First Amendment pro
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• Newark Advocate: Children of God find new home
  The movement was started about [[1969]] by a Californian named [[David Berg]], whom his followers regard as a prophet and call Moses. His "Mo" let
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• The Progress: Children of God Sect Grips Thousands of Parents
  ...I always thought was right. And it was probably illegal," said the father, David C. Neve, general manager of an electronics company with a factory here. ...o" letters]] written by the man who founded the sect in 1968, [[David Berg|David (Moses)Berg]]. These rambling letters written from Europe, where Berg is in
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• Stephen A. Kent
  ...Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Leader, David Berg]]". ''Cultic Studies Journal'' '''11'''(2):135-188.
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• Time Magazine: Whose Children?
  ...l apostles seems to have gathered around a fundamentalist preacher named [[David Berg]], now in his fifties, his four children and their mates in [[1967]]-6 ...ldren have won over two important figures in the broader Jesus movement: [[David Hoyt]], of Atlanta's street ministries, and [[Linda Meissner]], of Seattle'
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• Time Magazine: Children of Doom
  ...U.S. The reason, according to Founding Father [[David Berg]], alias "Moses David," has to do with the comet Kohoutek, which was supposed to herald catastrop ...formation center for the Children of God today is London. But Leader Moses David stays as elusive as Howard Hughes, making contact with the members only in
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• Time Magazine: Tracking the Children of God
  ...azine-aug22-1977--p15-elusive.jpg|400px|thumb|'''Elusive Cult Leader Moses David and friends during Canary Islands sojourn.'''<br>''Be "Happy Hookers for Je ...ers]]" from their founder and prophet, "[[Moses David]]" (né [[David Berg|David Brandt Berg]]), 58. These Mo Letters have, among other things, encouraged t
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• Christianity Today: The Children of God: Fewer and Far Out
  "Moses" [[David Berg]] cites persecution as the reason for strategy and organizational chan ...rbara Kaliher Cancaro ("[[Queen Rachel]]") was the heir apparent to "King" David’s throne until her defection several months ago. [[Mike Sweeney]] ("Timot
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• Midwest Christian Outreach Journal: A Family Affair
  The Children of God, founded by [[David Brandt Berg]], are an outgrowth of the 60’s counter-culture. Berg had dee ...0s|1970’s]]. It was during this time that Berg changed his name to Moses David believing himself to be the fulfi llment of Deuteronomy 18:15 and began to
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• Excerpts of Family publications that mention Timothy Concerned
  Source: {{pubs|2701|Michael Landon!}} &mdash; by David Berg; ML#2701 (DO); 1991-06. Source: {{pubs|2710|Rulebreakers Beware!}} &mdash; by David Berg; ML#2710 (DO); 1991-07.
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• New York Times: Parents Join to Combat Radical Youth Sect
  ...od are somewhat obscure, but the group seems to have crystallized around [[David Berg]], a Fundamentalist preacher in his mid-fifties, who in [[1968]] began "There's no satisfaction like sharing the love of Jesus, " said Paul David Cooke, 22, whose Bible name is Lazarus.
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• New York Times: American's Death A Bangkok Puzzle
  ...id Berg, a former American traveling preacher who now calls himselfi Moses David. But the "elders" -two young men and a woman -stayed behind and willingly a
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• New York Times: Argentines Say a Sex Cult Enslaved 268 Children
  Under its fiery leader, David Berg, the Children of God preached Biblical fundamentalism with a strong ap ...the instructions of Mr. Berg, who was also known as Moses David and Father David, members left the United States after being accused by the New York State A
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• New York Times: Retrieving Youngsters From a Sex-Exalting Cult
  ...ult]] that called itself the [[Children of God]] and whose leader, Moses [[David Berg]], advocated sex for children. "I practice what I preach, " proclaimed It's almost enough to make you want to hear more from Moses David Berg.
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• New York Times: Lefkowitz Lists Charges On Sect
  The sect was founded in [[1969]] by a preacher named [[David Berg]], who, with other members of his family, still leads the organization
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• Oui Magazine: Murder Most Foul
  ...interpreted and amended by [[David Berg|David Brandt Berg]], 55, aka Moses David. ...and they certainly would have got one if their moms had been anything like David Brandt Berg's mom, the fundamentalist faith healer.
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• Hollywood Reporter: HBO Documentary Focuses on Cult Kids
  The Children of God, a.k.a. [[the Family]], was founded by [[David Berg]] in the late [[1960s|'60s]]. By [[1981]], it boasted more than 2,000
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• The Mirror: Ex-member of Children of God Details Childhood Abuse
  ...members is God's will, and that refusing sex is refusing the will of God. David Berg, a Children of God leader, details in letters to members how he enjoye
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• Misattribution and Social Control in the Children of God
  ...leader, [[David Berg]], who came to be known among his followers as Moses David, Mo, Dad, and most recently Grandpa. In these allegedly final days before t ...misattributed all sources of "good" to God and His reputed agent on earth, David Berg, while at the same time it misattributed all that is "bad" to Satan as
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• US Magazine: Strange Days
  By Roberta and David Ritz ...a self-styled prophet named [[David Berg]] - later he called himself Moses David - who had started attracting followers a few years earlier in Huntington Be
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• Lethbridge Herald: God's law versus man's law
  ...d - some say enslaved - by a totalitarian "Godhead" who calls himself King David. The king is actually [[David Berg]], whose poison pen name is Moses David. He has formed a fanatical following through the flimsiest of philosphical
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• Marysville Journal Tribune: "Children Of God" Using Sex To Recruit
  ...ed group, [[David Berg]], known to his followers as "Moses David," "Father David" or "Mo".
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• National Enquirer: I was a Hooker for Heaven in an Evil Sex Cult
  The cult's leader was a perverted preacher who called himself Moses David. He told his female followers that "God was a pimp" and they should offer t ...dained minister who called himself Moses David, or Mo. His real name was [[David Berg]], and he communicated with his followers through a series of edicts c
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• Manly Daily: Colony Comes to Town
  ...starting the Children of God movement at a resort called Huntington Beach. David Berg formed his colony from the outcasts of society.
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• The Family's response to the June 2005 Rolling Stone article
  Founded by [[David Brandt Berg]] (1919-1994) in Southern [[California]] during the late [[1960
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• David Brandt Berg
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• Victims to Victors
  by [[David Hiebert]] ...God (hereafter “COG”) in the early [[1970s]], we weren’t aware of [[David Berg]] (also known as “Moses” or “Mo”) and the tight control he exe
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• Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of the Chosen One
  ...on a larger story unfolded - that of a charismatic, sex-obsessed father, [[David Berg]], the founder of the Children of God; a scheming, deluded mother; and ...ch, California, called Teens for Christ, led by a fifty-year-old preacher, David Brandt Berg.
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• The Mirror: Our years of terror growing up in an evil child sex cult
  ...er of them expected to live past their teens because the cult's founder, [[David Berg]], promised that the world would end in [[1993]]. ...d Kristina was two, their parents split. Kristina and her younger brother, David, came back to the UK with their mother for a short time before returning to
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• The Mirror: How we escaped the clutches of a cult
  It was only then that we discovered the group had a leader - [[David Berg|David Moses]] - who preached that the world was going to end in [[1993]]. ...God and his word was law. We were told to read the scriptures according to David Moses. They were beautiful and moving, and I took in every word - this was
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• The Mirror: Escape from the cults
  ...s we were allowed to read were the Bible and writings by the late leader [[David Berg]]. And yet we thought that was normal.
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• The Mirror: My parents let evil cult use me as a child sex slave
  ...ject she immediately goes on the defence, crying and blaming everything on David Berg, the American founder of the Children of God cult, for turning out to David Berg conveniently received a message from God, telling him the group was ne
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• What Magazine: Bait on the hook: a cult experience
  '''They were slowly indoctrinating me to believe that "[[David Berg|Moses]]" (the group's leader and founder) was the last prophet of God.
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• Washington Post: New York Would Place Children of God Under State Scrutiny
  ...egories of "[[Mo Letters|Moses letters]]" that are written by [[David Berg|David (Moses) Berg]], the founder of the group. They are (1) those to members of
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• Clarifying Contentious Issues: A Rejoinder to Melton, Shupe, and Lewis
  ...ublication, [[Child Brides]], Melton indicated that The Family's leader, [[David Berg]]," suggested that those teens [aged 13 to 15] who wanted to should be .... Lewis, Ph.D." when interfering with the publication of Kent's article on David Berg in 1993, and he only discusses his attendance at "more than one gradua
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• Barbara Kaliher Canevaro
  ...) was a high-profile leader of the [[Children of God]] in the [[1970s]]. [[David Berg]] gave her the nickname of '''Brunheld'''. She was one of the first pe After [[David Berg|Berg]] fired all 300 of his top leaders, including Rachel, she left th
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• Victor Program
  ...island of Coloane). Among these DTs was [[Merry Berg]], granddaughter of [[David Berg]]. ...r sweet and loving talks she held with Techi and the stern dealings that [[David Berg|Dad]] had with her. She said:- "When a child is having serious problem
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• Michael Fogarty
  ...ays as '''Ahimelech Organ'''<ref>{{pubs|932|Urgent Notices!}} &mdash; by [[David Berg]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#932 [[DFO]].</ref>) is a longtime Family musician,
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• Krounapple v. Children of God, David Brandt Berg, et. al. 77CV-11-4706
  ...CHILDREN OF GOD]], DAVID BRANDT, AKA [[David Berg|DAVID BERG]], AKA MOSES DAVID, et al. In [[1976]] Defendant [[David Berg]], aka David Brandt, aka David Moses began to prescribe certain conduct for the female members and taught
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• Birmingham News: New Home, Old Questions Controversies of Past Follow Communal Group
  [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], who died last year, founded the Children of God among hippi This group believes that its founder David Berg, a.k.a. Moses David and "Dad" to the cult members, is the endtime prophet and considers his "MO
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• Cleveland Plain Dealer: Authorities Seize 140 Cult Children
  ...] - was founded in California in [[1968]] by an itinerant preacher named [[David Berg]]. The group has been criticized by parents of members who say it reli The whereabouts of Berg, also known as Moses David and Chairman Mo, were not known. The Australian newspaper said yesterday he
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• Newsday: 10 Commune Arrests
  ...ve, was founded in California in [[1968]] by an itinerant preacher named [[David Berg]]. The group came to Europe in the early [[1970s]] and has been critic
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• Rocky Mountain News: Police Raid Children Of God Homes Sweep Nets 52 Arrest
  The sect was founded by Californian [[David Berg]], also known as Moses David or Chairman Mo, at the height of the hippie movement in [[1968]] and quickl
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• Times-Picayune: 'Death Is A Vacation'
  Group members followed their leader, [[David Berg|David Brant Berg]], who often communicated from seclusion before his death last y
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• People Magazine: Was the Family Doing God's Work - Or Unspeakable Harm?
  ...nia in the late 1960s by a charismatic former Pentecostal minister named [[David Berg]], it was first known a the [[Children of God]]; early members, who nu
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• John Lincoln Brandt
  ...n Lincoln Brandt''' (26 October 1860 &ndash; 1946) is the grandfather of [[David Berg]] and father of [[Virginia Lee Brandt]]. He was the son of Isaac Brand David Berg wrote of his grandfather:
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• Oakland Tribune: Covina Man Still Tied to Church Suit
  ...es connection with the Texas COG. with "Jesus freaks" or with [[David Berg|David (Moses) Berg]] and his wife, [[Jane Berg|Jane (Eve) Berg]], alleged oversee
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• Texas Monthly: Let the Love Light Shine
  ...obabaly a good time to throw in, comes recommended by MO, for Moses, nee [[David Berg]], the founder and leader and interpreter of the Children of God, a Wi
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• Fred Jordan
  [[David Berg]] first met Jordan in [[1952]] when he enrolled in a 3-month course at ...tainslide}}"&mdash;21 October 1971&mdash;an example [[Mo Letter]] in which David Berg repeatedly refers to Fred Jordan as "King Saul".</ref>
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• 1977
  * [[David Berg]] supposedly receives a [[prophecy]] that his 2-year old stepson [[Dav
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• 1985
  ...ers are urged to no longer have underage girls dance completely nude for [[David Berg]], due to charges of child pornography.
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• 1967
  * April &mdash; [[Fred Jordan]] fires [[David Berg]]. ...Christian coffeehouse and outreach mission run by [[Teen Challenge]] and [[David Wilkerson]].
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• Children of God, Inc.
  In a September [[1978]] Family [[:Image:Fn-v6-n3-pg001.jpg|publication]], [[David Berg]] discussed some of the problems related to Children of God, Inc.:
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• Clarin: Piden a Interpol la captura del reverendo que fundó la secta
  [[David Berg|Moisés Berg]] o el reverendo Mo, tiene 74 años y es norteamericano. ...ción ilícita, pidió ayer a Interpol la captura del estounidense Moisés David Berg o "el reverndo Mo", de 74 años, fundador y líder mundial de esa agru
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• Mountin Maid
  [[David Berg|David Berg's]] poem, '''''Mountin Maid!''''' was first published by the [[Childre ...formation center for the Children of God today is London. But Leader Moses David stays as elusive as Howard Hughes, making contact with the members only in
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• Sydney Morning Herald: The Family v. The Rock
  ...1960s in California from the teachings of the alcoholic radio evangelist, David Brant Berg, who now lives as a semi-recluse in Japan, aged 74. He fled ther Berg or Moses David or just plain "Dad", as he was known by followers, began advocating incest
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• Sydney Morning Herald: For God's sake
  What followed was a $4 million, four-month-long, David v Goliath court battle which set the legal establishment agog and tongues w ...e late [[David Berg|David Brant Berg]] - also known as Moses David, Father David or just plain Dad or Mo - died in [[1994]], aged 75. He was a former alcoho
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Boy Denied Sexual 'Fishing' Says Counsel
  ...shers of men" - was introduced as a form of witnessing about [[1977]] by [[David Berg]], founder of the [[Children of God]] cult from which The Family sect
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• Sydney Morning Herald: The Family's Planning
  ...lcoholic radio evangelist, [[David Berg|David Brant Berg]], known as Moses David or just plain Dad to his followers. To Moses David, sex was a big factor in his philosophy. A father of four, he was thrown ou
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• The Age: Family's leader sends top aide to secret talks
  ...r-old leader, [[David Berg]] - also known as the "Endtime Prophet," "Moses David", "Dad" and "Grandpa" - whose location is secret.
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• The Age: Moses David's children
  ==Moses David's children== ...control. Members become what he calls "ideology clones" of the founder, [[David Berg]], or of local leaders.
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• BBC News: Eyewitness: Why people join cults
  [[David Berg]], the founder of the [[Children of God]] - the group my parents joine
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• Humble Observer: Charitable donation or cult income?
  ...cher named [[David Berg]]. The 60's was a time of "hippies" and free love. David Berg who called himself "Mo" or Moses was a proponent of free love. He felt ...ber [[Richard Rodriguez]], the son of David Berg and [[Karen Zerby]]/Maria David/Mother Maria/Queen Maria, the current prophet and spiritual leader of the C
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• Nevada State Journal: Evangelists Hold Program Series At Sparks Church
  will be the Rev. [[David Brandt Berg]], and the principal message
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: David Berg, founder of '60s `Jesus freaks,' dies in seclusion at 75
  ==David Berg, founder of '60s `Jesus freaks,' dies in seclusion at 75== '''OBITUARY: David Brandt Berg, also known as Moses David, founder of the Children of God movement - the original "Jesus freaks" of t
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• Individual Report Form
  ...illed out at the end of each month. It was introduced in January 1979 by [[David Berg]] in ''[[The IRF! NRS7|The IRF!&mdash;NRS#7]]'' ([[DFO]]#757). This fo
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• Birmingham News: 'Family' communal group remains in Shelby County
  The Children of God was founded in [[1968]] by the hippie prophet [[David Berg]] and became known as the sex cult of the [[1970s]] for its libertine
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• Peoria Journal Star: Crusader Fights Crime with Law Degree and Attitude
  ..., was personal secretary to cult leader Moses David, whose real name was [[David Berg]].
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• ACI Prensa: Juez aprueba veracidad de libro sobre oculta historia de secta argentina
  En una de las [[Mo Letters|cartas]] publicada de [[David Berg]] o Moisés David, fundador de la secta, éste afirma que "hemos aprendido varias lecciones e
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• Nudie-cutie
  '''Nudie-cutie''' was a term used by [[David Berg]] to describe pornographic pictures of the [[cult]] members. Berg requ ...[HomeARC ML 2347|David's Ordination!--On His 12th Birthday!]] &mdash; By [[David Berg]]; [[DO]]#2347; 1987-01</ref>
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• Christianity Today: The Children of God: Disciples of Deception
  ...t he carries on his role of latter-day prophet (Moses) and King of Israel (David) by writing a profusion of [[Mo Letters|"MO" letters]]—more than 500 in f ...vid Jacks, 24—hope to alert the public to the evils being perpetrated by David Berg on his follow­ers (many of whom, they believe, are sincerely motivate
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• Colorado Springs Gazette: Man who returned parenting award denies ties to cult
  ...ever affiliated with the group founded in California in the [[1960s]] by [[David Berg]].
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• Christianity Today: Have Children of God Cleaned Up Their Act?
  [[Image:Ct-1992-12-14-berg.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The early days: Moses [[David Berg]] by candlelight. <br>[[Image:Icon_pdf.gif|PDF icon]][http://www.xfami ...g to the post of editor of the "prophetic words" of the group's founder, [[David Berg]].
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• Christianity Today: Children of God Cult Records Higher Numbers
  ...ear holo­caust was about to descend upon Europe and America, [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], the 63-year-old founder and lead­er of the [[Children of G
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• Christianity Today: Children of God: New Revelations
  ...rom the Children of God (COG) sect reveal that founder-leader [[David Berg|David "Moses" ("Mo" for short) Berg]] apparently is still in charge and is still
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• Christianity Today: Sex Abuse Charges Disputed
  The group was formed during the hippie movement in the [[1960s]] by [[David Berg]], who eventually taught group members that sex between consenting mem
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• IRE Journal: Records, sources help show link between charity, religious sect
  ...Family]], a sect started in the late 1960s by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], a twisted prophet who attracted tens of thousands of devote Contact: David Donald, ddonald@ire.org, 573-882-2042
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• Cosmopolitan: A sex cult stole my childhood
  ...ult was like a religion based on the prediction by its founder, American [[David Berg]], that the world would end in [[1993]]. It may sound strange, but my
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• Dateline NBC: A message from beyond the grave
  It was [[David Berg]], "Moses David," who founded the "Children of God" in the late 1960s. And, at a time when ...on she bore and named him "Davidito" — little David — heir-apparent to David Berg.
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• Christianity Today: COG Founder Berg Dead at 75
  ...the controversial [[Children of God]] (COG) as [[Father David]] or [[Moses David]], died in November at age 75. He remained in hiding for years prior to hi
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• Cornerstone Magazine: The Family and the Truth
  ...y of The Children of God'' was published by Syracuse University Press.''' David Bromely, after reading the manuscript, asked me to reflect briefly on my ex ...for an evening meal and long discussion. Several other members of Father David’s family and household were there as well. Over the course of the evenin
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• Cornerstone Magazine: The Children Without Their "Father"
  ===After Moses David Berg's Death, What Has Happened to This Once-Most Controversial Spin-off of ...e. They asked my opinion on the group's late founder, [[David Berg|"Moses" David Berg]], and I paused only a moment before suggesting a little too forthrigh
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• Family News Magazine
  ...issues were edited by [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby]]. [[David Hiebert|David]] and [[Mary Lou Hiebert]] (also known as Zebedee and Zorah Rabbit) were la
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• Indiana Evening Gazette: Berg Evangelistic Party Opens Services At Girty Orange Hall
  ...re her husband, the Rev. H.E. Berg, Bible Teacher, and her son, the Rev. [[David Brandt Berg]], singer and pictorial Bible lecturer, who will be presenting
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• 1926
  * July 23 &mdash; [[David Berg]]'s mother, [[Virginia Brandt Berg]], is knocked unconscious by a rock
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• Nova Religio Book Review: Life in The Family: An Oral History of the Children of God
  ...in (p. 49). As the theology evolved, founder [[David Berg]] (a.k.a. Father David or Dad) "clarified his status as God's unique [[Prophecy|Prophet]] for the ...ciples within his personal household" (p. 97), and around [[1978]] "Father David's explicit edicts regarding [[:Category:Sexuality|sexual practices]] became
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• Lawrence Lilliston
  ...riguez]] that he: ''“recently administered a psychological evaluation to David, who is now nineteen, and found him to be a bright, well-adjusted, and emot ...to]]. This was an opportunity to explore exactly what had taken place in [[David Berg|Berg's]] household. He merely touched upon these matters and Davidito
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• Harper's Magazine: Family Values
  ...ult, and then himself last January. "[[Dad]]" is Rodriguez's stepfather, [[David Brandt Berg]], who founded the cult in [[1968]]. Now known as [[The Family
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• Strange Fire: Inside the Camp
  Amasa and Rose, Amplias Singer, Jesse Huntington, [[David Hoyt]], and <P>Shortly after I rejoined the COG, we got a letter from Moses David
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• ABC News: Tale of the Tape
  ...freedom. Its membership would grow into the tens of thousands. This man, [[David Berg]], was its charismatic leader. And this child, his heir apparent. This ...e captions. Much of the text was written by that self- proclaimed prophet, David Berg.
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• CNN Larry King Live: 'The Family' - Preachers or Pornographers?
  '''Mr. ANTHONY:''' The Family was started by [[Father David]]. He's our founder. He was a missionary. All of his life he was looking fo '''KING:''' Father David was originally a priest?
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• CBS News: Woman breaks away from religious cult that promoted prostitution and sexual abuse of their children
  (Photo of cult members; of [[David Berg]]; footage of books; photo of Miriam and her husband) ...er, a failed mainstream preacher named David Berg. Calling himself [[Moses David]], he guided his young followers through writings called "The [[Mo Letters]
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• CBS News: Dozens of American children picked up during police raid on Argentinian branch of international cult
  '''LAGATTUTA:''' The cult's founder is [[David Berg]], now 74, who preached free love in the '60s. His whereabouts are unk
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• CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Murder-Suicide Leads to Secretive Cult
  In the '60s, flower children and so-called Jesus freaks flocked to David Berg and his message of free love. The subject of this documentary called " ...ldren in the group came from the top down. It's evident in their writings. David Berg promoted it. He thought that was godly, and they, in their published w
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• Daily Mail: Yard probe into child cult
  ...t became notorious in the 1970s for the recruitment technique its leader [[David Berg]] called '[[flirty fishing]]'.
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• Daily Mail: House of croquet and free love
  ...British branch of the [[Children of God]], which shares the same leader, [[David Berg]].
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• Daily Mail: Free the children from this evil cult
  This sect, spawned in the 60s by Californian [[David Berg]] as the [[Children of God]] is currently operating here under the ali
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• Daily Mail: 'Reformed' Sex Cult Can Keep Children
  ...g the evil practices of the cult, founded by paedophile and pornographer [[David Berg]].
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• Evening Standard: We swap wives in the name of Jesus, says cult
  The sect was founded in California 25 years ago by [[David Berg]], who is now living in Japan. He created the technique called '[[flir
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• Evening Standard: Evil Berg still leads cult from beyond the grave
  By David Mcmillan and Gervase Webb [[David Berg]], who died last year aged 75 was a depraved man obsessed with sex. "H
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• London Times: Judge condemns cult's founder as perverted and malign influence
  Lord Justice Ward was severely critical of [[David Berg|David "Moses"
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• Alberta Report Western Report: Chilling reminders of "free love": an Argentine incest bust stirs gruesome memories in Alberta
  - based preacher [[David Berg]], a former Alliance Hawking pamphlets written by "[[Moses David]]" (Berg),
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• South China Morning Post: Children of a lesser god
  75-year-old cult founder [[David Berg]]. David Berg gained instant notoriety when he formed the sect,
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• Associated Press: U.S. Embassy Says Five Americans Jailed in Egypt, Accused of Missionary Work
  The "Children of God" cult was founded by 65-year-old [[David Berg]], known to his followers as David Moses.
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• Geraldo Rivera: Former cultists comment on requirements made of them by their leaders
  the individual members' minds to separate Moses David '''Mr. ROSS:''' And the money goes to Moses [[David Berg]] or...
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• Confidential Questionaire!
  &mdash; By [[David Berg|Mo]] & [[Karen Zerby|Maria]]; [[DO]]#656; [[1978]]-01
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• M&M
  '''Mo & Maria''' (or '''M&M''') was a joint-pseudonym used by [[David Berg|David "Mo" Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby|Karen "Maria" Zerby]].
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• UC Berkeley News: The accidental activist: Daniel Roselle
  ...n [[1968]] in [[Huntington Beach, California|Huntington Beach, Ca.]], by [[David Berg]], an itinerant Pentecostal pastor who began ministering to disaffecte
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• South China Morning Post: More accusations against Children of God
  ...or a grounding in the ways and writings of his father - self-styled Father David Moses, the founder of the Children of God - before moving on to begin their The whereabouts of [[Father David]] is a closely guarded secret for fear of the battering he would receive fr
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• From Mother Eve
  ...he Family International|The Family International]]'s founder, [[David Berg|David Berg]].''
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• Paul Brandt Berg
  ...izen, born 1947-06-21) was the eldest son of [[Children of God]] founder [[David Berg]] and [[Jane Miller]]. Known within the [[cult]] as "'''Aaron'''", Pau ...efusing to publicly have sex with him as part of a practical demonstration David Berg ordered on "how to have intercourse with pregnant girls."
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• Rebellion of David
  ...ily's rebellion against [[the System]], led by group founder and prophet [[David Berg]]. Rebellion of David is a southern California rock band that started in early 2004. The band is
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• Stephen Schaf and the "Rise of the Prophets"
  Hi, This is [[Stephen Schaf|David]] ...h;''During the Birth of the Family!&mdash;Dad in Action!''&mdash;By Father David
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• Dr. Phil: The Family Cult Escapees
  Mr. DAVID ZITTING (Hildale Mayor): Well, that's pretty well factual. It's been that w McGRAW: Its founder, [[David Berg]], preached his own interpretation of the Bible. What began as communa
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• Love bombing
  ...nated within the Children of God. [[Deborah Davis]], daughter of founder [[David Berg]], and [[Kristina Jones]], daughter of an early member, both use the t ...ewspaper for libel, in regard to stories the newspaper had published about David Adler's experiences with the church). In her testimony Singer said that she
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• 60 Minutes Australia: Sinful Acts
  ...on the promise of a sexual nirvana. The cult's American guru, [[David Berg|David Moses]], even declared sex between adults and children was natural and heal ...dom. Their mysterious leader was [[David Berg]], a man they knew as 'Moses David' or 'Mo', a self-proclaimed prophet who preached that any sex, all sex, was
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• Lawrence Pizzuto
  Before leaving the [[United States]] on their first trip to Europe, [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby]] stayed with Larry's mother at her home near Wash
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• Gente: Habla Joyanne Treadwell Berg
  HABLA JOYANNE TREADWELL BERG NIETA DE DAVID BERG, FUNDADOR DE LOS NIÑOS DE DIOS, Y EX MIEMBRO DE LA SECTA: MI ABUELO A [[Joyanne Treadwell Berg]] es la nieta de [[David Berg]], el fundador de Los [[Children of God|Niños de Dios]]. Es la una de
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• Peter Amsterdam's Son Speaks Out!
  When I was two years old, my dad left to work with [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby|Maria]]. I didn’t have much contact with him dur
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• Fresno Bee: NY Accuses Cult of Sex Perversion
  The group's leader, [[David Berg]], also promoted unorthodox sexual relationships amomg members of his
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• 60 Minutes New Zealand: The Children of God
  ...ds all over the world were tuning in and dropping out. American preacher [[David Berg]] slowly began converting hippies to his new kind of religion - doing SARAH HALL: David Berg formed the Children of God. Among the followers were the parents of ac
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• London Times: 'After my mother, all I need is one bullet for myself'
  ...For Rodriguez was the heir apparent to The Family. His adoptive father, [[David Berg]], was its founder. His mother, [[Karen Zerby]], is its leader. And [[ ...tory of Lazarus!” when Davidito was 17 months old, Sara wrote: “Little David stood watching through the pool fence as a couple made love in the water. H
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• Kill Khomeini!--A Prayer
  ''Editor's note: The following is a transcript of one long prayer [[David Berg]] made against the Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran. When Kh ''&mdash;By [[Father David]], 14 December 1987 (DO #2407)''
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• Montel Williams: Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult
  CARYN: Yes, he was the son of the [[David Berg|founder]].
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• Totalitarianism
  [[David Berg]] could be considered to have espoused '''totalitarianism''' in philos ...Up, Dress Up, Trim Up, Straighten Up!&mdash;Or Out You Go!]], by [[Father David]], DO#1202, March 1982.'')
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• Oldie Goldies
  ...ence, tracts, and reprints of newspaper articles and advertisements with [[David Berg]]'s name (and some of his relatives' names) partially blacked out or e *[[Image:Icon pdf.gif]][https://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/og/og5.pdf Father David's Father and Mother--about 1940]
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• Houston Chronicle: Hope fading for return of boys taken by cult
  ...known as the [[Family of Love]], or [[The Family]] - was the creation of [[David Brandt Berg]], a self-styled prophet of doom who found a ready band of zeal Berg adopted the biblical name "Moses David," began heralding the coming of Armageddon - an event he forecast for 1993
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• Associated Press: Mexican groups accuse U.S.-based cult of sexual abuse
  ...offshoot of the [[Children of God]] sect founded by Christian missionary [[David Berg]] in California in the late 1960s. It claims 6,000 adult and 3,000 chi
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• Dallas Morning News: Back to the Garden
  His new leader, [[David Berg]], had been a traveling preacher. In [[1968]] David's mother, [[Virgina Berg|Virginia]], a radio evangelist, had asked him to t ...hippies on the pier in Huntington Beach. She got my letter and checked out David Berg. The whole bit about the Children of God, the revolution for Jesus, th
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• Globe and Mail: Get ready to die, cult followers told
  It was founded in the early [[1970s]] by an evangelical pastor, [[David Berg]]. His doctrine advocates promiscuity among group members, and the org
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• The Guardian: Charges against cult blamed on ex-members
  The Children of God cult was founded in [[1968]] in the US by [[David Berg]], a former pastor known as Father or Mo, now aged 74 and said to be l
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• Houston Chronicle: Cult's image unfairly soiled, member says
  ...brothers spell their surnames differently), traveled to Waco to represent David Koresh, leader of the Davidians who challenged Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm The group still follows the word of former Pentecostal preacher [[David Berg]], who left his [[Jane Berg|wife]] and four children in [[1969]] at th
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• The Independent: Cult denies child sex abuse
  The Family, founded as The Children of God by [[David Berg]] in the United States 25 years ago, has always been controversial.
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• The Independent: Gideon's Bible of Free Love
  ...a former itinerant Methodist preacher, whom followers refer to as [[Father David]] or [[Mo]], the evangelical group has preached Christian fundamentalism an And so Father David provided the philosophical justification for [[Flirty Fishing]], a kind of
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• The Independent: `We were always afraid. Silly things like frowning were punished'
  ...tion the Children of God - established in [[1969]] by Californian hippie [[David Berg]] - and her face darkens. In little more than a whisper, her eyes dead
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• The Independent: Parent of the Year `ran camp for cult'
  ...was a leader of the [[Children of God]], a [[cult]] started by the late [[David Berg]], which has been repeatedly accused of [[:Category:Abuse|child abuse]
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• London Times: Follower describes childhood of abuse
  ...e spirit', and punished ... I had to prove myself as being unselfish, as [[David Berg|Berg]] (the cult's founder) wanted all women to be. Punishments were d
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• The Scotsman: Sex cult said to be recuiting in Scotland
  ...an international warrant for the arrest of the Californian cult leader, [[David Berg]], now in his 70s, whose whereabouts is unknown. Last September, 300 c
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• London Times: The day the 'Martians' woke up
  ...n out of the hippy movement in California in [[1968]]. [[David Brandt Berg|David Brant Berg]], a long-haired "Jesus freak", began ministering the gospel to ...ean headquarters. Susan, one of their first British recruits, said: "To us David had practically replaced Jesus. The Children of God were nice, bright, youn
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• London Times: Band on the run with rock'n'roll in their blood
  ...ligion and prayer in the shape of the teachings of the group’s leader, [[David Berg]]. He told young female members to offer sex to outsiders in return fo ...what they did. But it’s so subtle that you don’t notice it happening. David Berg himself called it brainwashing — he said that people have dirty mind
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• Kristeligt Dagblads: Hævnmord efter opvækst i sekt
  ...ren of God|Guds Børn]]. Sekten blev stiftet af Ricky Rodriguez stedfar, [[David Berg]], i [[:Category:History|1960'erne]]. Den tiltrak især hippier, venst ...alle familier. Derudover skulle han være en slags messias, fremgik det af David Bergs profetier. Sektlederen kaldte ham prins Davidito og hans mor for dron
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• Houston Press: Family Ties
  [[Image:David_Berg-002.jpg|thumb|David Berg's sexual obsessions became Family doctrine. <small style="color:#777;" ...ix Christian fundamentalism with the words of their own prophet, founder [[David Berg]], who died in [[1994]]. Today's members say they establish schools in
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• Houston Press: Bedtime Stories
  ...he could put her up on the wall by his bed like Daddy <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[David Berg|Berg]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> does, and then kissed her nipples and stroked
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• Sarah Berg
  ...on F. Klein, she also alleged that, "three or four years before my teens," David Berg made sexual advances towards her and attempted to have sexual intercou ...me afraid to be, I was always frightened to be alone with him... At times, David Berg, three or four years before my teens, he tried to have intercourse. Of
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• Jonathan Berg
  ...ngest son of [[David Berg]] and [[Jane Miller]]. He was known as "'''Hosea David'''" or "'''Ho'''" in the [[Children of God]]. He was also known as "'''Jon Jonathan has had two wives: [[Lurana Nolind Berg]] (Esther David]) and Ruth. He had six children (five boys, one girl) with Esther. Two of M
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• Stephen Bruce Ferguson
  [[Image:Steven David-01.png|thumb|Stephen Bruce Ferguson, [[1975]].]] '''Stephen Bruce Ferguson''' (aka '''Stephen David'''; born [[1950]]-06-15), a US citizen, was a longtime member of the [[Chil
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• New Times: Where have all the Children of God gone?
  ...o letters]]&mdash;the biweekly wisdom of his spiritual leader, one [[Moses David]]. It's all packed and ready to go. ...his legal wrangling must bring a smile to the unphotographed face of Moses David, the elusive founder and prophet of the Children of God who, since the pare
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• The Age: Taxi! Hailing the drama of a lifetime
  ...couple of years. They were the [[Children of God]], followers of [[Moses David]]. Thirty of us living in a one-roomed flat at Newtown. Six people sleepi ...-East Asia. We lived in that pig sty and sent all our money back to Moses David in America. We thought the money was being used to spread the word of God.
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• Book of Remembrance
  ...and accounts of the organization's history and the history of [[David Berg|David Berg's]] personal family.
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• Order of Judge Campora - 1993-06-28
  ...y this court, to locate the FROUMAN brothers (two of the children, Emanuel David and D.P. have been returned to their father), it has become aware of the ex ...tion - [[David Brandt|DAVID BRAND BERG]] also known as [[Moses David|MOSES DAVID]] or simply MO - in regards to the cell structure of the organization, the
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• Roberto José Marquevich
  ...n Martin. In September 1993, Judge Marquevich also ordered the arrest of [[David Berg]] and Interpol issued a "Red Notice" to that effect. On December 13, 1
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• Let Our Children Go!
  ...were hung with Scriptural quotations and pictures of [[Fred Jordan]] and [[David Berg]], the organizers of Children of God. The room was crowded and hot. Ab ...it's not easy to describe. MO is an abbreviation of "Moses," which is what David Berg, the leader of the group, calls himself. The letters are actually litt
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• Deprogramming
  ..., and the politicians who administer and interpret them, were protecting [[David Berg]], and the parents' hands were tied. It seemed wrong to me. I thought
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Love: Current sect members think so
  Mooney concedes that changed in the mid-1970s, when the sect's founder, David "Moses" Berg, directed his female followers to practice "[[flirty fishing]]
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• Cassandra Mooney
  ...s that changed in the mid-[[1970s]], when the sect's founder, [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], directed his female followers to practice "[[flirty fishing
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• The Guardian: After the 'Family' broke us apart
  History: It was set up in [[1968]] by the former pastor [[David Berg]] in Huntington Beach, CA. Later known as the Family of Love, the Fami
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• Ted Patrick
  ...iscovery order requiring the organization to make its leaders, including [[David Berg]] available for depositions and to turn over its membership and financ
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• Revolutionary salute
  The '''Revolutionary salute''' is a three-finger salute created by [[David Berg]] when he founded the [[Children of God]].
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• Cosmopolitan: "I survived a RAPE CULT"
  ...lso known as [[The Family]], was founded by American evangelist preacher [[David Berg]] in [[1968]]. He fled the US and led many of his followers to Europe
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• Sunday Telegraph Magazine: Family Values
  ...he group has progressively moved away from the more extreme teachings of [[David Berg]], its founder and spiritual leader, since the late Seventies -- but m ...David Berg, a traveling evangelist who also went under the names of Father David, Grandpa, Dad, the End time Prophet and, appropriately, given his long whit
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Flora Family Foundation donated money to charity with ties to infamous cult
  Started in the late [[1960s]] by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], the religious sect's blend of Christian witness and sexual
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• Folio: CBS News "Eyes" the U of A
  ...ldwide Christian-based group based on the teachings of its late founder, [[David Berg]].
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• Uncut: Walking With Demons
  ...ining the [[Children of God]], a secretive religious cult led by "Moses" [[David Berg]], which was later investigated by the [[FBI]] over alleged child abus
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• Techi
  ...]] and [[Michael Sweeney]] (aka Timothy Concerned), and step-daughter of [[David Berg]]. Through [[:Category:Family Publications|Family publications]] such
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• Australia
  ...ort to Dad and Maria from Australia]] &mdash; A [[1981]] video report to [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby]] from a couple in Australia and their son. In th * [[The Age: Moses David's children]] &mdash; 1992-06-05
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• Joel Wordsworth
  Wordsworth was [[Excommunication|excommunicated]] by [[David Berg|David Berg]] in [[1975|1975]]. In a [[Mo Letter|Mo Letter]] titled {{pubs|352|The *Source: {{pubs|352|The Uneager Beaver}} — by David Berg; ML#352 DO; 1975-10-14.
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• Nationalise Re-organise Security-wise
  ...of [[Mo Letters]] that members began to receive in in January [[1979]], [[David Berg]]
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• ABC News 20/20: To Bring Her Children Home
  ...a Walters. Tonight, the [[cult]] [[Children of God]]. Founded by Moses [[David Berg]], he reportedly sanctioned sex among children. '''[[Moses David|MOSES DAVID]] BERG, CULT [[:Category:Leaders|LEADER]]'''
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• NBC Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
  ...entified with the madness that was going on at that very time in Waco with David Koresh and his Branch Davidians. ...made for [[David Berg|David Berg]], also known as "Moses David" or "Father David," the self-proclaimed prophet who founded the Children of God in his own im
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• Dateline NBC: Losing Faith
  ...id Berg|David Berg]]--[[Moses David|Moses David]] or [[Father David|Father David]] he called himself. Members lived together and shared one another sexually. Then David Berg created "[[Flirty fishing|flirty fishing]]"--females join escort servi
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• CBS Evening News: Jesus Movement Spreading to England
  ...ewalk and the street, a couple are playing guitars and they are singing "[[David's Mighty Men]]")''
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• The Love Prophet and the Children of God
  ...ent and Former Members|member]] who isn’t here, the group’s founder, [[David Berg]]. Berg’s [[:Category:Beliefs|teachings]], especially those about [[ ...rmon recounts a miracle that once brought her back from the dead. To young David, his mother is a living saint. The church is also the setting for early rev
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• The Family's Response to "The Love Prophet and the Children of God"
  ...he message of God's love and salvation with those in need. Although Father David laid no claim to infallibility and to the contrary was very candid about hi ...ather due to his attempts to racially integrate his church. The claim that David Berg was made to masturbate in front of his father is entirely false. Profe
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• Albatross - Berg and TF on Education
  I think it would be interesting to post some excerpts of [[David Berg|Berg's]] writings on the subjects and perhaps also include what the Fa
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• Mocumba
  ...|250px|right|Cover of "''Mocumba!&mdash;The Conversion of Africa?''", by [[David Berg]]. Art by [[Hugo Westphal]].]] ...ges/0/08/Ml-554.pdf Mocumba!&mdash;The Conversion of Africa?] &mdash; By [[David Berg]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#554 - [[DO]]; [[1976]]-08-21.</ref>
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Drug dealer sees the light, camera, action
  Their founder, "Moses" [[David Berg]], preached a perverted gospel of prostitution and pedophilia, using a
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• Globe and Mail: 'Flirty fishing' is urged for sect
  [[David Berg]], known to his followers as [[Moses David]], Father David or Mo, has called the tactic "[[flirty fishing]]."
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Beyond Belief
  THE story of David Berg and the Children of God sect is both fascinating and grim. Fascinating
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Party Nights Face Challenge In Court
  A 13-year-old boy told an interviewer that "Grandpa" (David Berg), the 73-year-old reclusive founder of the cult the Children of God, f
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• Penn - A Few Replies
  ...ices]], I am guilty of so much more. I actively and energetically served [[David Berg|Berg]], [[Karen Zerby|Zerby]], and [[Steven Kelly|Smith]], carrying ou
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• Lily Filipina
  ...me time in a [[World Services]] [[Unit]] there before going to live with [[David Berg]] in late 1986, early 1987. Berg was living in the "[[Hilltop Compound
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• Jules - Apologetics and Academic Supporters of The Family
  === DAVID BROMLEY ===
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• The Australian: Keeping it in the Family
  ...in suburban Sydney for an apocalyptic end-time foretold by their leader [[David Berg]]. An expert on new religious movements, author [[David Millikan]], says the group, which he met in 1992, "challenged the limits of
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• Sun Herald: We Were Family
  ...s [religious devotionals and the writings of the sect's American founder [[David Berg]]] and said, `Here's the evidence'. We didn't even know what it was." * 1968: Children of God formed in California by Moses David.
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• Straits Times: 140 Aussie kids saved after raids on religious cult
  ...years the [[Family of Love]] - was founded in California in [[1968]] by [[David Berg]]. Berg, who is also known as [[Moses David]] and [[Chairman Mo]], is reportedly sought by US police on [[:Category:Chi
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• Sunday Times: Sex-cult children held - Children of God
  ...izarre sexual practices. Founded in California in [[1968]] by [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], or "Chairman Mo", it preaches salvation through sexuality, David Berg, the cult's founder, is being sought by American police on kidnapping,
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• Independent On Sunday: 140 children are taken from cult
  ...the hippie culture of the Sixties. Its founder, David Berg - also known as David Moses - encouraged "shared" sexual relationships, including polygamy, child
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• The Age: Eccentric Habits Mark Group's Re-emergence
  ...] sect began in California in the late [[1960s]] under the leadership of [[David Berg]]. Also known as Moses, Mo and Chairman Mo, Berg apparently had been a ...name Children of God, prefering to use [[Family of Love]]. The Reverend [[David Milliken]], who has studied the group, said yesterday: "It's very difficult
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• Report to Dad and Maria from Australia
  A video report to [[David Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby]] from a couple in [[Australia]] and their son. I
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• Jennifer Susan Smith
  Other pseudonyms used include [[Esther David]].
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• Calgary Herald: Refusing treatment, cult member dies
  The sect, headed by [[David Berg]], also known as David Moses, gained international prominence for its sexual promiscuity, which in
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• Calgary Herald: Woman wants to save her sister from cult
  The Children of God. headed by David Berg, also known as David Moses, at one tune had more than 120 communes around the world
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• Calgary Herald: 'They are right from the pits of hell,' says ex-Child of God
  ...sect headed by [[David Berg]], known to his followers around the world as David Moses.
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• Claim by Family spokesperson that Ricky Rodriguez was "not the subject of corporal punishment"
  ...January [[2005]] article by ''Tuscon Citizen'' reporters Blake Morlock and David L. Teibel, [[Family International]] spokesperson [[Claire Borowik]] was quo ...h include transcripts of tape-recorded statements by his adoptive father [[David Brandt Berg]] and nanny [[Sara Kelley]] admitting to physically striking Ro
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• Investigation regarding the bibliography of the Children of God: The existence of clandestine jails
  ...worst abuses are those closest to the "[[Royal Family]]," constituted by [[David Berg]] and his closest acolytes. ...erstanding, the sect began on January 15, 1968 which was the same day that David Berg committed his first crime as sect leader and kidnapped "Lydia," fleein
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• Jules - What Is Apostasy?
  Those children who did not accept the ideology of the Family and the founder, David Berg, did not have the option of freedom of expression. Questioning the leg ...s were found to be questionable. The questioning of any of the writings of David Berg (classified as The Word [of God] by the Family), was considered doubti
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• HomeARC ML 2989
  .... David has a few songs to lead us in now, and you all have the words.) ''(David plays the guitar and leads in "Open My Eyes," then everyone praises!)'' <br>       new day of David
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• HomeARC ML 3028 P
  ...8021 Zurich, Switzerland -- Text by John Weaver (Based on the writings of David Brandt Berg)
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• HomeARC ML 3048
  <br>(Edited and compiled by Apollos from the writings of David Brandt Berg.) ...recorded in Scripture where departed saints ministered to God's children, David taught that the good spirits of Godly people who have passed on are sometim
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• HomeARC ML 3059
  <br>''By Maria David'' <br><br>       In late 1994, my beloved husband, David Berg, a prophet of God and founder of the unconventional Christian movement
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• HomeARC ML 3060
  ...and encrypted messages is found in the Bible and in the writings of Father David ''&#91;EDITED: "Berg"]''. For it was spoken of him that he was to be given
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• HomeARC ML 3061
  ... ''The Family'' began in 1968 in southern California, where its founder, David Berg, reached out in a ministry to the counterculture youth. As many of the ...994. Leadership of the movement has since passed to his second wife, Maria David, who also conceived and edited this book.
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• HomeARC ML 3077
  ...f bridal theology was rudimentary at best. Although Maria's first husband, David Brandt Berg (the Family's founder, 1919-1994), had recognized and touched o <br><br>       David Biale, whose studies focus on sexuality as it pertains to Jewish history, i
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• HomeARC ML 0156
  &mdash;''By [[David Berg]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#156 [[GP]]; [[1972]]-03-01.'' ...Anointing..." (Tongues: "Why art thou amazed by the words I have spoken of David?") "It has been given thee to ''perceive the number of years'' which, accor
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• HomeARC ML 0176
  ...Men!" Hallelujah! Since the "Monster" letter, some have been singing it "''David's Monster Men"! ''Hallelujah! ''God's Monster's on the move! ''We are ''the ...all the Earth, and thy standards shall be lifted high, and the banners of David shall wave aloft over many tongues and tribes and nations, and thou shalt c
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• HomeARC ML 0269
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• HomeARC ML 0280
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• HomeARC ML 0301B
  &mdash;By [[David Berg|MO]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#301B ([[DO]]); 1974-02-01
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• HomeARC ML 0302C
  &mdash; by [[David Berg|MO]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#302C [[DO]]; [[1974]]-03-21 ...rts ''you?--Jesus'' did: He gave His'' life! God'' did: He gave His Son! ''David'' did: He said, "I will'' not'' give unto the Lord of that which hath ''cos
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• HomeARC ML 0371
  &mdash; [[David Berg|MO]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#371, [[DFO]]; [[1975]]-11
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• Guardia Civil: Criminal Sectarianism
  ...d by extremely strong authority incarnated in their founder and director [[David Berg]] who, under the name of Moses ([[Mo]]), appears like the Prophet of t The aforementioned David Berg – who is also called, "King David" - was an evangelical pastor who resided in California in [[1968]] and who
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• Dateline NBC: A Child Lost
  ...d heir of the founder of the Children of God. It was [[David Berg]], Moses David, who founded the Children of God in the late 1960s . (Video diary excerpt; photos of [[Davidito]] and David Berg; people marching; photo of Berg; people standing in row)
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• Tither's Report Form
  [[David Berg]] insisted that tithable "income" constituted the entire income before
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• Arnold Dietrich
  ...]. He joined the group in the late [[1960s]]. He is also a son-in-law of [[David Berg]], having married [[Faith Berg]] in February of [[1967]] at Berg's req
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• Michael Timothy Brown
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• Los Angeles Times: Former cult member assesses damage in 'Children of God'
  ...on of the late [[Children of God]] [[cult]] [[:Category:Leaders|leader]] [[David Berg]], and his murder of another former "[[The Family|Family]] member" and
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• True Komix - The Love of God
  [[David Berg|Berg’s]] vision was to have all his [[Mo Letters|Letters]] illustrat ...amily children would read the TKs. Family publications make it clear that David Berg approved and promoted this:
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• Het Volk: Messias van sekte wordt moordenaar uit wraak
  ...e wereld nabij is. De groep werd opgericht door de zelfbenoemde profeet, [[David Berg]] wiens preken [[:Category:History|in de sixties]] veel gehoor vonden [[Karen Zerby]] is de weduwe van profeet David Berg en Ricky's moeder, die door Berg voorbestemd was om de sekte te leiden
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• Dagbladet: Guds misbrukte barn
  ...- Dagbladet-no.jpg|right|thumb|'''«[[The Little Girl Dream]]»''': En av David Bergs mange publikasjoner som ble spredt i sekten.]] '''PÅ 1970-TALLET''' kalte de seg «Guds barn». Sektens stifter [[David Berg]] talte mot forbrukersamfunnet og USAs krigføring i Vietnam, og han v
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• Cult Killer: The Rick Rodriguez Story
  ...he himself never made this allegation. Nevertheless, whatever happened in David Berg's bedroom had a profound effect on Rick and his sister. In recent year ...ick showed little appetite for the mantle of leadership forced upon him by David Berg. As he grew older he became increasingly angry with his mother, reject
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• Joyanne Treadwell Berg
  ...and [[John Treadwell|John "Jethro" Treadwell]] and the granddaughter of [[David Berg]]. ...evision about being [[David Berg#Alleged sexual abuse|sexually abused]] by David Berg.
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• London Times: The family that plays together
  ...was founded in the late 1960s by a fiftysomething West Coast long-hair, [[David Berg]], from Huntington Beach, California. According to Tally, who heard it
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• The Mirror: Death of Family man
  ...amily's next leader by his [[Karen Zerby|mother]] and the cult's founder [[David Berg]], who adopted him as a son. It was a role he didn't want and, after e
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• The Scotsman: Family business of abuse and murder
  [[David Berg]] was the founder of a [[cult]] called [[The Family]], for which he ki
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• The Sentinel: Sorry story of a killer doomed from childhood
  ...the most outrageous sects in America. Founded by Rick's adoptive father [[David Berg]], [[The Family]], formerly The [[Children Of God]], promoted a bizarr
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• Western Morning News: Killer's diary lifts lid on bizarre cult
  ...had become pregnant while using sex to recruit new members. The founder, [[David Berg]], adopted Rick as his own son and groomed him to succeed as leader af
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• The Independent: There's no way I'm pounding the sidewalk with someone who looks like Joan Baez's fat ugly sister
  ...hippy [[cult]] type thing that followed the "teachings" of a guy called [[David Berg]] and we became "[[Children of God]]". I'm not going to linger here to
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• Women In Love
  ''--By [[David Berg|Mo]], GP#292, [[1973]]-12-20'' ..., DIDN'T HE?) Well there are many men who had a great love for each other: David and Jonathan had a tremendous love for each other, friendship for each othe
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• Chain
  ..."]] &mdash; By [[David Berg]]; [[DO]]#650, [[1978]]-01.</ref>) were what [[David Berg]] called all top 300 [[:Category:Leaders|leaders]] in the [[Children o * David Berg
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• Sex Jewels
  ''--By [[David Berg|Father David]], [[DO]]#919, Compiled [[1980]]-05'' ...raised thee up, to go unto the people to show them the love of thy Father David!" Hallelujah! [[TYJ]]! There it is, why should I say more, amen? I take you
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• Jules - Lying Lips - The Lies Family Leaders Have Told About Ricky
  ...sing Davidito by wholly inappropriate exposure to sex included the leader [David Berg] and his likely successor [Karen "Maria" Zerby]." ...ton writes that he: “recently administered a psychological evaluation to David, who is now nineteen, and found him to be a bright, well-adjusted, and emot
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• BBC Outlook: Abuse within The Family
  ...January [[2005|last year]], 29-year-old [[Ricky Rodriguez]], once seen as David Berg's chosen successor, [[Ricky Rodriguez's death|killed himself]] after [ ...f much charisma. I mean, he became known later among the group as [[Moses David]], he communicated with his followers by so-called "[[Mo Letters]]." I mea
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• Anti-Antichrist
  The '''Anti-Antichrists''' (or '''AACs''') were what [[David Berg]] called the future nations ("AAC nations") or peoples who would rise ...HomeARC ML 2189|Raiser of Taxes and Rise of the Antichrist!]] &mdash; by [[David Berg]], [[Mo Letter|ML]]#2189 (ET#52) [[DO]]; [[1985]]-05
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• John Treadwell
  ...eborah" Davis]], father of [[Joyanne Treadwell Berg]], and son-in-law of [[David Berg]]. Mr. Treadwell was second-in-command of the [[Children of God]] (just under David Berg) throughout the [[1970s]]. He was fired by Berg, in January [[1978]],
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• Hjalmer Emmanuel Berg
  ...g''' (American) was the husband of [[Virginia Lee Brandt]] and father of [[David Berg]]. ...e end of the 1800s with his parents and siblings.<ref name="Berg172">Berg, David (1972). "{{pubs|172|Survival}}". ML#172.</ref>
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• King and Queen Counselor
  ...KQC''') was the highest [[:Category:Leaders|leadership]] position, after [[David Berg]], in the [[Children of God]] during the [[1970s]]. ...ervant''' (or '''KQS''').<ref>[[Happy Rebirthday!--RNR Rules!]] &mdash; By David Berg, [[DO]]#663, [[1978]]-02.</ref>
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• Sprint Center
  * [[Happy Rebirthday!--RNR Rules!]] &mdash; By David Berg, [[DO]]#663, [[1978]]-02.
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• Sprint Shop Servant
  * [[Happy Rebirthday!--RNR Rules!]] &mdash; By David Berg, [[DO]]#663, [[1978]]-02.
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• Service Center Servant
  ...ly Videos|media]] orders.<ref>[[Happy Rebirthday!--RNR Rules!]] &mdash; By David Berg, [[DO]]#663, [[1978]]-02.</ref>
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• Portugal
  '''Portugal''' is the location where [[David Berg]] died (Costa de Caparica in [[1994]]) and the last known location of
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• Dora
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• News of The World: "I lived in constant fear"
  ...ree. We called it 'witnessing', but really we were begging for the cult. [[David Berg]] set it up in [[1968]] and despite scandals and name changes, it's st
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• News of The World: Farrell got missionary in position
  By David McGee ...49<ref>The Children of God was not founded until 1968.</ref> by the late [[David Berg]], a Californian hippie. The group has about 300 [[UK]] members.
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• News of The World: The cruel legacy of Britain's most sinister cult
  FEMALE sect members stripped naked at a bizarre birthday party for boss David Berg. ...acy of her years with the secret worldwide cult launched by American hippy David Berg.
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• News of The World: Corrie star's horror at hell of real-life cult girl
  The Children Of God sect was established in 1949 by late Californian hippy David Berg. The first British commune opened in 1972 in Chislehurst, Kent, but sp ...d: "Mum explained she had read a book and no longer believed that our guru David Berg was a prophet. She sat us down and told us she was very sorry for what
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• Modesto Bee: Christian group founded in '60s Jesus movement
  The [[Children of God]] dissolved in [[1978]], and founder [[David Berg]] formed a new group, the [[Family of Love]]. The name eventually was Berg, who was called "[[Moses David]]," died in [[1994]]. His wife, [[Maria]], has led the group since.
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• Juan Fonta
  ...pain) was a member of the [[Children of God]] and a personal gardener of [[David Berg]] before leading the "Iberian LIM" (a [[home]] where [[Mo Letters]] we
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• Mary Coppola
  ...', and '''Keren Happuch''') was one of the first personal secretaries of [[David Berg]].
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• ABC News 20/20: Revenge Against Religious Sect
  (VO) The Law of Love was the creation of [[David Berg]], founder of the sect, and it was promoted and encouraged through its '''DAVID BERG'''
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• Leadership Trainees Only
  * source: [[HomeARC_ML_0124|Suggestions!]] &mdash; By [[David Berg]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#124; 1971-11-01
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• Montel Williams: Escaping A Cult
  '''[[David Berg|DAVID BERG]]''' ...with camcorders, far-flung communes often recorded their exploits, sending David Berg messages of love.
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• My Childhood Sex
  ''--By [[David Berg]]; [[Mo Letter|ML]]#779 (DFO #999; Adults only); 1978-11-08''
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• Egomania: The Cult Leader
  ...nt, ''The Cult Leader'', identified [[Children of God]] [[cult]] founder [[David Berg]] as an egomaniac who displayed 7 out of 9 characteristics of Narcissi
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• ABC News: Primetime: The Outsiders
  (VO) Its membership would grow into the tens of thousands. This man, [[David Berg]], was its charismatic leader and this child, his heir apparent. This ...captions, much of the text was written by that self-proclaimed prophet, [[David Berg]].
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• GMTV:News Hour: Children of God
  ...as very prominent. It was shown mostly through [[Mo Letters]] written by [[David Berg]]. '''Eamonn Holmes:''' David Berg was the [[:Category:Leaders|leader]] of the Children of God.
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• Testimony of a Child Bride & Young Mother
  ('''[[David Berg]]: Amen! [[GBY]]! [[ILY]]!''')
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• Jane Magazine: Orgies and Prophecies
  ...e forced to have sex with one another, their guardians and their leader, [[David Berg]] (aka [[Grandpa]]). "If you hadn't started your period yet, you were ...the cult. The two were like brother and sister, because they both lived in David's household. Then in January [[2005]], while Noah was working on the docume
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• Christianity Today Liveblog: Freaky Murder
  ===New book chronicles the revenge of David "Children of God" Berg's "spiritual son."=== By David Neff
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• MWM: H.M.S. MWM
  This show was inspired by a dream [[David Berg]] recounted in the April [[1981]] [[Mo Letter]] {{Pubs|1016|The HMS MW
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• Daily Mail: Enslaved by the cult of sex...for 25 years
  ...childhood was dominated by the warped cult [[:Category:Leaders|leader]] [[David Berg]]. Sickeningly, the cult leader David Berg, or 'Mo' as he called himself, claimed that God intended everyone to b
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• Orange County Weekly: Spare the Child
  ...year-old high-school dropout, met a defrocked Evangelical minister named [[David Berg]] in Huntington Beach, Bril says. At a seaside Christian café, Berg, ...as a neo-Nazi, but his first spiritual mentor was not Adolf Hitler. It was David Berg.
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• Madison: We were forced to obey: Life Inside The Children of God
  ...ringing of Ricky “Davidito” Rodriguez. As the stepson of cult founder David Berg, (Berg took Zerby, now known as the Queen or Mama Maria, as his second He had three children – Celeste, Kristina and David – with fellow cult member Rebecca, who joined in her teens and they were
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• MCV: Happy Birthday Family 1982
  ...ly]] members, including [[Faith Berg]], at [[Musica con Vida]] celebrate [[David Berg]]'s 63rd birthday.
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• Dora Techi
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• Independent on Sunday: Violent sexual abuse, brainwashing and neglect: What it's like to grow up in a religious sect
  ...nded by self-styled guru and [[Berg on Pedophilia|paedophile]], the late [[David Berg]]. The CoG believe themselves to be God's elect, offering redemption o
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• New York Times: What’s on Tonight
  ...the Family]] and now called [[the Family International]], was founded by [[David Berg]] in [[1968]] in [[California]] as part of the countercultural “Jesu
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• Bristol Evening Post: Suffer little children
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• Western Daily Press: Free of cult's clutches to tell their harrowing story
  The [[:Category:Family Videos|video]], one of many made on the orders of [[David Berg]], controversial founder of the Children of God sect, still exists and
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• Western Daily Press: Charismatic leader who preached paedophilia
  ...Western-daily-press-2007-07-18-david-berg.jpg|frame|Control freak: Founder David Berg]] ...culture of southern California in the late [[1960s]] and was founded by [[David Berg]], the son of a [[Virginia Lee Brandt|celebrated Christian evangelist]
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• San Jose Mercury News: The offspring of 'Jesus Freaks'
  [[David Berg]] was a small-time circuit preacher whose flocks ran thin until the la "The Children of God was a machine to spread the ideas of David Berg," he said. "The children were born to do the same thing. That was the
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• Arlyn Sharon Dunetz
  "The group was being distorted by a leader [[David Berg]] who was getting very full of power and wealthy," she explained. "He
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• Limerick Post: Castleconnell area was base for child sex cult, claims victim
  ...in secrecy. The Children of God cult, which was founded by warped leader [[David Berg]], is now known as '[[The Family]]'. And today the three sisters work ...[[:Category:Incest|incest]] and being brainwashed - all led by our leader David Berg, who twisted Bible excerpts, saying that everything done in love is go
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• Limerick Post: Castleconnell in cult claim
  ...[:Category:Incest|incest]] and being brainwashed - all led by our leader [[David Berg]], who twisted Bible excerpts, saying that everything done in love is
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• Glorify God in the Dance
  ....</ref><ref>{{pubs|1830|Have Fun &mdash; Enjoy Dancing & Sex!}} &mdash; by David Berg; ML#1830 DO; 1984-02-13.</ref> The term is taken from {{bible|Psalms|1 ...'''Glorify God in the dance'''" and primarily based on the instructions by David Berg in the Mo Letter of the same name published a few months earlier.
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• Linda Miessner
  ...ubs|2778|Now It Can Be Told--Chapter 14: Oklahoma to London}} &mdash; by [[David Berg]]; ML#2778 DO; 1991-04. ...shell!}} &mdash; by [[David Berg]]; Compiled by [[Jonathan Berg|Hosea]], [[David Berg|Dad]]‚ [[Paul Papers]], [[Sally Scribe]]; ML#1355 DFO; 1983-01.</ref
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• Irish Independent: 'When I left The Family, I had sadness and pain and worry. But dad has never acknowledged that what happened to us was ever wrong'
  The organisation was founded in southern California by [[David Berg]] in [[1968]]. In its heyday 5,000 children were born into the cult, i If they resisted, they were accused of being selfish, evil or ungrateful. "David Berg said that children liked sex, so no matter how we felt, they chose to
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• BBC One: Heaven and Earth Show: Children of God
  ...ly the sisters escaped, as did their mother, when they realised that the [[David Berg|group's leader]] was a false prophet. The three sisters, now grown wom
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• Nottingham Evening Post: Sixties cult exerted a powerful influence
  The [[Children Of God]] was founded in the late [[1960s]] by [[David Berg]] in Huntington Beach, California. ...istian evangelist]], he believed he was the successor of the biblical King David and the prophet Moses.
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• Nottingham Evening Post: Woman tells of escape from cult
  ...aked photos and videos of them and other children were sent to cult leader David Berg by members desperate to gain his approval.
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• Nottingham Evening Post: Cult pictures of innocence
  Naked photos and videos of them and other children were sent to cult leader [[David Berg]] by adults desperate to gain his approval. David Berg had begun the Children Of God movement in California years earlier, ca
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• Daily Express: How Close Is The End of The World?
  ...ncourage free love in all its permutations, especially with its founder, [[David Berg]], who died in [[1994]]. It has been reinvented as a [[:Category:Belie
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• Press coverage by publication title
  * [[The Age: Moses David's children]] &mdash; 1992-06-05 * [[Atlanta Journal-Constitution: David Berg, founder of '60s `Jesus freaks,' dies in seclusion at 75]] &mdash; 199
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• Berg on History
  [[David Berg]] wrote and spoke extensively on world history and current events. The After David Berg died (in 1994), [[Karen Zerby]] continued the tradition.
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• Arizona Daily Wildcat: Underside of cult life emerges
  [[David Berg]], Rodriguez's father and founder of Children of God, attracted thousa
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Review: Fear, sex are driving forces within Children of God cult
  Cult leader [[David Brandt Berg]] grew up in the 1920s and 1930s at the apron strings of his mo
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• ABC News Nightline: Faith Matters: The Tragic Legacy of the Children of God
  ...y, [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and revenge. In the late 1960s, David Berg, the self-proclaimed prophet and Children of God founder, began preach '''DAVID BERG (FOUNDER)'''
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• KFMB-TV: Dulzura Charity Funded Accused Child Molester
  ...aMattery]], left the cult in [[1975]]. This is around the time its founder David Berg started prophecizing about sex with children and wife-[[sharing]].
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• KFMB-TV: FBI Launches Investigation Into Sex Cult
  Self-proclaimed prophet David Berg founded the religious group in the late [[1960s|60's]] as a "[[revolut
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• KFMB-TV: 'The Family' Religious Sect Has Ties To San Diego
  The group became notorious as a Christian sex cult, when founder [[David Berg]] started preaching open sexuality – even among children. Many ex-me
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• Ireland's Issues: Not Without My Sister
  ...0s|1960’s]], as an off-shoot of the Jesus Movement. Founder [[David Berg|David (Moses) Berg]] preached a bizarre mixture of religion based on salvation, a ...was seventeen. Rebecca had three children, but after the birth of her son David, became depressed and left the movement bringing two of her children with h
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• Spiegel: Geboren in eine Sekte: Der tödliche Ausstieg des Ricky Rodriguez
  ...erby]] gehörte zu den engsten Vertrauten des Mannes, der sich selbst Mose David nannte. 25 Jahre lebte Ricky Rodriguez in der Führungscrew der "Kinder Got
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• CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Twisted Cult
  ...en Zerby]], had become leader of the sect in [[1994]] after its founder, [[David Berg]], died. ...an experiment in this strange kind of twisted child-rearing philosophy of David Berg.
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• CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Young man's suicide blamed on mother's cult
  ...y.jpg|thumb|Ricky Rodriguez as a boy with "Family International" founder [[David Berg]].]] ...us Freaks]]." The sect was founded in [[California]] in the [[1960s]] by [[David Berg]], who referred to himself as "Mo," short for Moses. Berg was a self-p
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• CNN Newsroom: Born into a cult
  '''RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR:''' What was [[David Berg]] like? ...en Zerby]], had become leader of the sect in [[1994]] after its founder, [[David Berg]], died.
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• KGTV: Former Members of Children of God Speak Out
  ...f the first members of the Children of God -- a religious group created by David Berg in Huntington Beach in [[1968]]. ...d complained about sexual molestation by his [[Karen Zerby|mother]], his [[David Berg|father]] and [[:Category:Abusers|other adult women]].
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• Arizona Daily Star: New book calls cult practices madness
  ...bers of The Family known as The Unit, who were extremely close to leader [[David Brandt Berg]]. Kauten also served as one of Rodriguez's nannies and teacher
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• UPI: Murder-suicide blamed on mother's cult
  The Family International was founded in California in the [[1960s]] by [[David Berg]], who referred to himself as "Mo," short for Moses. The sect's activi Former sect members also told CNN that cult founder David Berg encouraged [[:Category:Pedophilia|adult-child sex]], frequently with R
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• France 2: Enfants de Dieu 3
  ...liminés les documents compromettant, c’était un ordre de leur gourou [[David Berg]].
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• France 2: Enfants de Dieu 1
  '''Journaliste''' : Le fondateur du groupe c’est lui [[David Berg]], il a aujourd’hui 80ans, il vie dans la clandestinité, peut être ...aire l’amour avec son prochain. Sarah aussi c’est déshabillée pour [[David Berg]].
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• Flirty Fishing in the Children of God:The Sexual Body as a Site of Proselytization and Salvation
  ...the late 1960s under the leadership of the Christian evangelical preacher, David Berg (1919-1994). The group offered a radically different platform from whi ...minist rhetoric against women occurred in the Children of God. Its leader, David Berg, specifically appropriated the language and images of women’s libera
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• Sunday Vision: X-tian group worships Jesus with sex
  Peterson’s daughters give a detailed account of [[David Berg]], the founder of the organisation who promoted the [[Law of Love]] as
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• Sunday Vision: Living by the law of love
  Founded [[1968|40 years ago]], by [[David Brandt Berg]] ([[Moses David]] or [[Mo]]), the movement has traded names from ‘The [[Children of God]] ...Kristina was not abused because she was not in his custody. He says the [[David Murdock|stepfather]] whom she accused of sexually abusing her sent him a vi
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• Weekly Observer: Cult Activity in Uganda?
  The cult, [[Children of God]] or [[The Family]] started by [[David Berg]] in the late [[1960s]] (also called [[grandpa]] [[Mo]] by his followe ...y set themselves ablaze and die if Mo advised thus; after all according to David Berg, death - as experienced by him in a dream - feels better than even an
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• A Response To My Father
  ...convicted of theft and fraudulent passport forgery for the cult leaders [[David Berg|Berg]] and [[Karen Zerby|Zerby]]. She was also convicted of obstructin
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• Sunday Telegraph: The perfect big read for summer
  ...reme Christian [[cult]] that flourished under the direction of "prophet" [[David Berg]].
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• The Age: Jesus Freaks
  Rodriguez was the spiritual son of the cult's leader, [[David Berg]], who died in [[1994]]. Berg became a cult leader in the late [[1960s
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• Charleston Gazette: Book chronicles dark outcome of end-time cult
  WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - [[David Berg]] was a small-time circuit preacher whose flocks ran thin until the la "David Berg was so prolific about publishing every thought that came into his mind
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• Augusta Chronicle: Book details grim abuses suffered by cult's children
  WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - David Berg was a small-time circuit preacher whose flocks ran thin until the late "The Children of God was a machine to spread the ideas of David Berg," he said. "The children were born to do the same thing. That was the
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• An Open Letter of Apology from Maria and Peter
  ...individuals, "Maria" (aka Karen Elva Zerby, Katherine Rianna Smith, Maria David, Maria Berg, Maria Fontaine, Mama Maria, and Queen Maria) and "Peter" (aka
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