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• David Berg
  ...turer from Muskogee, Oklahoma. Berg graduated from Monterey High School in California in 1935 and later attended Elliott School of Business Administration. ...nown as "Mother Eve" in the Children of God), on 22 July 1944 in Glendale, California. They had four children together:
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• Houston Chronicle: Children of God Cult Returns as The Family
  ...anicured 10-acre plot just north of Houston. They have been filtering into California for almost four years. They’re in suburban neighborhoods in Dallas, San A ...exhorted his band of “Jesus Freaks” to leave the United States before California fell into the ocean and the Comet Kohutek brought about the end of America.
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Common Thread of Sexual, Spiritual Abuse Among Cult Defectors Who Killed Themselves
  ...two leading members. Leaders of the sect founded in the late [[1960s]] by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]] and now known as [[the Family Inte ...his mother's personal secretary in his Tucson apartment, drove across the California border and then shot himself in the front seat of his car.
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Hewlett grant went to cult-linked charity
  The Flora Family Foundation, an heir to the HP fortune, gave a Southern California charity with ties to an infamous evangelical sex cult $61,500 during the pa The religious sect was started in the late 1960s by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], whose blend of Christian witness
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• Philip Sloan
  On April 23, 1998, Judge James Milliken of the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, ordered a child abused by Sloan removed from the cust *Source: Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, Juvenile Dependency Petition 512134, page 3, 1998-03-
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Rage turns to vengeance against "Family"
  ...of God]] -- a freewheeling religious sect founded in the late [[1960s]] by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]]. ...tions with ties to the Family, including the [[Family Care Foundation]], a California nonprofit public benefit corporation in the San Diego area. She was also on
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• San Francisco Chronicle: IRS documents show ties between charity, sex cult
  ...ed by the [[Family Care Foundation]], a not-for-profit charity in Southern California, show deep, ongoing ties between the organization and [[the Family]], the e ...ormerly known as [[the Children of God]], was started in the late 1960s by Oakland native [[David Berg | David "Moses" Berg]], who attracted tens of thousands
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• Los Angeles Times: Tragic Legacies of a Sex-Based Religion: Murder and Suicide
  Born in 1919 in Oakland to evangelist parents, Berg had bounced around before finding his calling. ...ex-Family members too. But his daily routines were a ruse. He had come to California to stake out the [[Family Care Foundation]], a charity with ties to The Fam
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Escaping a Free Love Legacy Children of God sect hopes it can overcome sexy image
  ...ks," left Huntington Beach in 1969, when the prophet predicted an enormous California earthquake. In the early '70s, they formed Christian communes in California and Texas - the first of dozens of small "intentional communities" that wou
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Sex: Ex-member believed abuse 'normal'
  ...member of the Children of God — a religious sect founded in [[1968]] by Oakland native [[David Berg|David “Moses” Berg]]. Berg was a radical Southern California street preacher who combined the free love of the sexual revolution with th
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• San Jose Mercury News: Group, P.A. woman's slaying intertwined
  ...ed son of the missionary group's leader. Rodriguez then drove west, to the California border town of Blythe, where police say he killed himself with a single sho ...of [[The Family | Family International]], and to the group's late founder, Oakland native [[David Berg]].
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• Los Angeles Times: A True Conversion?
  In Southern California, several hundred members have worked quietly for the past four years, evang ...has gone by such monikers as [[Project Outreach]] (no affiliation with the Oakland charity Project Outreach Inc.), [[Hearts Aflame]], [[Heaven's Magic]] and [
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• Houston Chronicle: Sex in the name of God
  [[David Berg|David Brant Berg]] was born in Oakland, Calif., in [[1919]], the son of a Disciples of Christ minister and a mothe By that time California had begun to see its first hippies and there was a chemistry between the yo
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• Houston Chronicle: Elusive "father' of cult has held a following for 25 years
  Berg came by religion naturally. He was born in Oakland, Calif., in [[1919]], the son of a Disciples of Christ minister and a mothe By that time California had begun to see its first hippies and there was a chemistry between them a
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days
  The hippie days David Brandt Berg, born in Oakland, Calif., in [[1919]], was the son of two Christian evangelists who became a ...67 to help her with a coffeehouse ministry on Huntington Beach in Southern California to the "poorest of the poor --- the poor hippies of Huntington Beach."
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• Oakland Tribune: Covina Man Still Tied to Church Suit
  [[:Category:Press:Oakland Tribune|Oakland Tribune]]/[[1975]]-01-01 NEW YORK (AP) - California and Texas leaders of "[[Children of God]]" groups remained unwilling defend
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• Fred Jordan
  ...in Texas called the [[Texas Soul Clinic]], another property in Coachella, California, and a large building at 5th and Towne in Los Angeles. ...nd in October [[1971]] evicted the group from his properties in Texas and California. In her book, ''Children of God: The Inside Story'', Davis noted that:
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• Children of God, Inc.
  ...two corporations registered as Children of God, Inc. One was registered in California by [[Fred Jordan]] and another was registered in Texas by members of the Ch According to a January [[1975]] Associated Press [[Oakland Tribune: Covina Man Still Tied to Church Suit|story]], both corporations we
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• The Age: Moses David's children
  David Brant Berg was born in Oakland, California, in [[1919]], the son of a Disciples of Christ minister and a radio evangel The hippies had begun sprouting in California when Berg, then 45, moved his wife [[Jane Berg|Jane]] and their four childr
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• IRE Journal: Records, sources help show link between charity, religious sect
  ...e Chronicle series was [[the Family]], a sect started in the late 1960s by Oakland native [[David Berg|David "Moses" Berg]], a twisted prophet who attracted t ...n were accused of sexual molestation in child custody cases in England and California in the [[1990s]]. They went on to start charities funded by the Family Care
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