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• Go For The Gold
  ...selfish attitude that has been manifested by many, and have concluded that living "One Wife"--helping one another, and the principle that all of the children ...at it discourages them and they feel condemned or like they can't be happy living for You because they are missing the mark or they're disobeying and not tru
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• Houston Chronicle: Children of God Cult Returns as The Family
  ...won “friends” for the group and was a vital part of the economy of the communal homes. It became a refined technique and Berg and his lover, Maria, publish ...television. You can’t go to college and you don’t learn how to make a living on your own.
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• Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family
  ...group, problems constantly emerged, as often-overworked mothers living in communal dwellings tried to cope with their own offspring as well as the offspring o ...t Macau and went to recuperate in the United States, and she soon ended up living with her aunt—the Children of God critic and daughter of Berg, Deborah.
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• All of These Things Moved Me
  ...more doors are open to do interesting and worthwhile work while earning a living. ...h all those spiritual hoops that were constantly put before me, I would be living in the basement shining shoes! That’s not Salvation! That’s very clever
  263 KB (47,372 words) - 22:17, 4 March 2007
• No Regrets
  ...o fly to London for the final day in court. Just the airfare and two weeks living expenses in a short-term rental house in downtown London cost several thous ...FFer, you wouldn't even be doing it for God, you'd just be doing it for a living. You'd probably end up on drugs - a drug demon possessed, alcoholic, diseas
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• Complete Judgment of Lord Justice Ward
  ...s or of the address in Leicestershire as being the home where the child is living. In the course of the hearing I received much evidence of and affecting oth ..., upbringing, and military service. He remained in Kenya after the divorce living in a "camp" with a girlfriend. I have the impression of a fairly lax, free
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• Los Angeles Times: Fringe Group at Center of Deaths
  ...iguez]], 29, the disaffected son of [[Karen Zerby]], current leader of the communal Christian ministry known as [[the Family]], allegedly killed longtime group Now the Family, which claims a membership of nearly 8,000 living communally and ministries in 100 countries, is scrambling to shore up its r
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Escaping a Free Love Legacy Children of God sect hopes it can overcome sexy image
  ...York. "It was a campground with about 300 people," she said. "People were living together, sharing everything. It was a mixture of Christianity and communis Sara Lieberman, who lives in a communal home in Orange County with 10 members of the Family, wishes the news media
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• Uncle
  In keeping with the Family's "[[One Wife]]" doctrine of communal living, children are encouraged and in some cases required to address all male, ad
  313 bytes (50 words) - 21:51, 10 June 2006
• Auntie
  In keeping with the Family's "[[One Wife]]" doctrine of communal living, children are encouraged and in some cases required to address all female,
  327 bytes (52 words) - 07:51, 24 February 2010
• Evening Standard: The Little Girl Seduced in the Name of God
  ...y]] counterculture of the Sixties and was offering a heady mix of communal living, Christian evangelism and free love. But by the Seventies, Berg openly advo
  10 KB (1,788 words) - 03:54, 1 September 2008
• None of These Things Move Me!
  ...ercoming jealousy, making sure adequate attention was given FGA women, and living the One Wife vision so people who are lonely, like single mothers, can rece ...y place, and to allow people who don’t even believe the Word to continue living in your Home doesn’t help them either.
  187 KB (33,656 words) - 00:57, 6 June 2005
• Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest
  ...es" in an estimated 70 countries. In 1977, its members were reported to be living in overwhelmingly Muslim Libya, apparently with approval of its leader, Moa ...dy of or visiting rights to his two children, who are members of the group living in another Asian country. When The Family ignored his offer, he turned over
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• Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God
  ...nd her until December 6, 1971. At this time, she was already a "babe" and living in the COG commune. ...own wife or husband or children strikes at the very foundation of communal living – against the unity and supremacy of God’s family</u> and its <u>onenes
  84 KB (14,145 words) - 00:50, 19 December 2007
• The Professionals
  ...ame things as Charter members. The difference is that they've decided that living the full–time discipleship life within the CM Family is not for them. But ...nough. I have accepted that a certain amount of both is part and parcel of living the way I do. But sometimes it seems that there are things (and by which, I
  187 KB (34,397 words) - 00:24, 9 September 2005
• Macleans: Not a normal family
  ...candal as an attempt to discredit what they say is an unorthodox but clean-living group of fundamentalist Christian missionaries. "I grew up in this group,"
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• Houston Chronicle: Sex in the name of God
  ...d was there when the group began its big push into Latin America. Berg was living in the Canary Islands in [[1978]] when his unbridled "flirty fishing" resul ...ture claims an average of 4.5 children per couple, all are brought up in a communal style and taught to call their local leader "Father.' Although the membersh
  20 KB (3,350 words) - 03:55, 25 July 2005
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days
  ...erts, called "[[Flirty Fishing|flirty fishing]]." The pastoral setting and communal lifestyle of the park's cabins and campgrounds are appropriate for this get ...und anatomically correct sexual pictures drawn by a child who lived in her communal home, she began to fear for her own five children, who now range in age fro
  16 KB (2,722 words) - 17:59, 15 November 2011
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Family: Hippie throwback or dangerous, abusive cult
  They return for dinner, Bible study and discussion, then a communal lights-out at 11. ===`Living in last days'===
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• Press-Enterprise: The Family's values disputed
  Frank Kiefer and other members of The Family who live in a Romoland communal home say their church has been improperly labeled a cult by detractors. The Today, there are about 9,000 members living in Family group homes worldwide and there are several thousand associate me
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• Philadelphia Inquirer: Berg's Followers Say Death Report Won't Deter Them
  ...followers who tried, but apparently failed, to establish one of the sect's communal houses in Philadelphia say nothing will change. ...y's participation at his church, Mr. Hubler also cited the sect's communal living arrangements, its cultish allegiance to Berg, and its nasty legal skirmishe
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• Family Care Foundation: A Front Group for The Family Cult
  ...es on to reaffirm his commitment to the cult: "I have had the privilege of living and working closely with Dad, Mama and Peter [Berg, Zerby and Kelly] for ma ...ing about women in the Family is that they don’t feel lonely as there is communal sexual sharing.
  79 KB (14,009 words) - 20:00, 23 March 2009
• Odessa American: Children of God Evicted From Ranch
  ...God," said the sect "has found the real meaning of Jesus through communal living like that of the early church."
  5 KB (844 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2005
• New York Times: Ill Winds Buffet Communal Sect
  ==Ill Winds Buffet Communal Sect== ===Communal Life Style===
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• Victims to Victors
  When the hippie movement dawned with its communal living and “love and peace,” I thought I might have found the purpose, accepta ...s was the “blueprint for the church,” and that they were the only ones living it. Finally, I thought, I had found what I was looking for.
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• Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of the Chosen One
  ..."[[the System]]" - outsiders were "[[Systemites]]" - by setting up spartan communal homes, abandoning their past lives and possessions and taking biblical name ...es of wives, women, mistresses, harlots and what have you!" Leaders of the communal homes took these words to heart, and the [[:Category:Sexuality|sexualizatio
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• Birmingham News: New Home, Old Questions Controversies of Past Follow Communal Group
  ==New Home, Old Questions Controversies of Past Follow Communal Group== ...n friendlier to us than anywhere I've ever gone," said Kay Spain, a member living in the Shelby County group home who joined the Children of God more than 20
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• Texas Monthly: Let the Love Light Shine
  ...rges may have, they seem a little superfluous here, in view of these clean-living and well-dressed "young men and women." The Children of God, at least the D "All these people here are supposed to be living like in the Old Testament. But they've all got short hair. You (indicating
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• Sydney Morning Herald: The Family v. The Rock
  ...barristers representing the parents and their 65 children, Miss Rockley is living up to her nickname, "The Rock", bestowed as much for her imposing stature a ...artmental residential care units", where they were interviewed about their communal lifestyles and sex. They were separated from young siblings and denied acce
  15 KB (2,497 words) - 08:23, 30 July 2005
• The Age: Family's leader sends top aide to secret talks
  The claims of cultural isolation are based on the communal living of the group, home-schooling of children, and alleged "thought control" and
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• BBC News: Eyewitness: Why people join cults
  Therapy cults will aim for the richer, business-types, whereas a communal group wants younger members, those who are in a time of transition, willing ...not afraid to "hide their light under a bushel" which was their example of living simply for Jesus.
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• Cornerstone Magazine: The Family and the Truth
  ...s hung on the wall, one for each of the individual families occupying this communal home. I looked them over and casually commented, “Oh, I see that you ado ...nward, and at some level becoming part of the ongoing experience of such a living community.
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• Cornerstone Magazine: The Children Without Their "Father"
  ...y far away, from all that I value most. I mourn them, their zeal and their communal life, their confusion regarding sexuality, spiritism, and extra-biblical re ...to become teenagers. Many had experienced low levels of education, harsh communal discipline, and in some cases sexual exploitation. As these children matur
  42 KB (7,167 words) - 02:51, 23 August 2005
• A Visit to God's New Nation
  9.THEY LIVE IN COMMUNAL GROUPS SEPARATED FROM THE WORLD. They do not work at everyday jobs, but rat ...od are beginning to fasion [sic] a community of purposeful individuals, living disciplined and to themintensely meaningful lives.
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• Strange Fire: Inside the Camp
  up into a picture of dedicated kids living together, forsaking all was called, &quot;Are We Living in the Time of the End?&quot; It cited
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• New York Post: My life and times as sex sect's sacred slut
  ...got on a bus, left her home and never looked back. What began as a benign communal life quickly degenerated into a downward spiral of group marriage and shari ...t like me - did not seem to fit into any groups at school. But she enjoyed communal life, and after a month she told me she wanted to join the Family.
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• UC Berkeley News: The accidental activist: Daniel Roselle
  ...ts Teens for Christ and later, [[Children of God]], Berg preached communal living and active [[:Category:Proselytization|evangelizing]] while remaining firml ...as painting restaurants at night and making deliveries. "For a while I was living in the car that my grandmother had helped me buy," he says.
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• Dr. Phil: The Family Cult Escapees
  ...rg]], preached his own interpretation of the Bible. What began as communal living transformed into a bizarre world of child abuse, prostitution and incest. T ...om? Why? Why did you have to drag us into all of this? How can you keep on living like you are? Why do you need to keep being in that group? Your son died. D
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• Montel Williams: Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult
  CARYN: My first memories was living in a big commune. ...ny time for ourselves. There was never any privacy. It was always communal living.
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• Dallas Morning News: Back to the Garden
  Nancy was a Kappa Delta living in their house and I was in an anti-fraternity dorm. I'm almost sure that w ...ed drugs. Now she wanted to try everything. So did I. It was my first time living away from home, a small New England town. I had lived a little -- seen Hair
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Love: Current sect members think so
  ...Paone, 28, was born to Family missionaries in [[Venezuela]] and grew up in communal homes across South America. ...f love]]," which allows sexual relations between married and single adults living in the sect's communes.
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• The Guardian: After the 'Family' broke us apart
  "And we'd been living just under the Mayan volcano, which hadn't erupted for about 100 years, til "There was that whole hippy thing going on at the time, communal living and no possessions," says Nat.
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• ABC News 20/20: To Bring Her Children Home
  ...ildren of God. Vivian believed, though she wasn't certain, that they were living halfway around the world in Bangkok, Thailand, with their father, [[Richard ...operate. Members, estimated in the thousands, live all over the world in communal houses. Berg himself keeps his whereabouts a secret, but he manages to mai
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• Reuters: Australian Court Frees Children Seized In Raids
  ...ered the release of more than 50 children seized in dawn police raids from communal houses belonging to a controverisal religious sect. ...ns of corruption in the United States but groups had re-formed to continue living in small communities around the world.
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• Reuters: Courts Free All Sect Children Seized In Dawn Raids
  ...urne have released more than 120 children seized in dawn police raids from communal houses belonging to a controversial religious sect. Greg Woods, counsel for one communal household, said it was not the Sydney court's function to keep children in
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• Sunday Times: Sex-cult children held - Children of God
  ...to release 52 children seized in two raids, heard that some 40 were found living in a commune in Victoria. ...her said that children were forced to watch adult sect members have sex in communal bedrooms and told of sex between children as young as 12.
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• The Age: Sect Children Seized
  ...found that was more than 12 months past the use-by date and the children's living conditions were "very poor". ...de: instead of aiming the raids at sect members, the police had raided the communal houses of a group of born-again Christians, only some of whom were former f
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• HomeARC ML 0848 02
  ...<u>attack</u>! If you don't try <u>something</u>, you may stay nice & safe living in your own little garrison & your own little territory, but you don't real ...each Sunday in a different home! They would always build a home that had a living room large enough to hold a small local congregation, so they could meet in
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• HomeARC ML 0897
  ...his mother was a widow then, & she had several children. He could remember living in a cold little shack in Kentucky when they ran out of fuel & it was ice c ...I had gone back to college at the University of Arizona at Tempe. We were living there & we heard that Branham had come to Phoenix. So we went to hear him.
  141 KB (25,253 words) - 07:59, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1089
  ...Blob fellowship & the togetherness & the system & the method & the way of living & that sort of thing instead of their eyes on <u>Jesus</u> & the <u>Word</u ...ife? How could they become strangers, aliens to His life & even His way of living?
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