Broken Faith - Mitch Weiss & Holbrook Mohr

Broken Faith

By Mitch Weiss & Holbrook Mohr

  • Release Date: 2020-02-18
  • Genre: Religion & Spirituality
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 67 Ratings

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*An NPR Best Book of the Year*

A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020

“I can’t imagine a more important book.”—Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author

An explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader is a master of manipulation

In 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a promise that she could turn their lives around.

In the years since, Whaley’s following has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continents. In their eyes she’s a prophet. And to disobey her means eternal damnation.

The control Whaley exerts is absolute: she decides what her followers study, where they work, whom they can marry—even when they can have sex.

Based on hundreds of interviews, secretly recorded conversations, and thousands of pages of documents, Pulitzer Prize winner Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr’s Broken Faith is a terrifying portrait of life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades.

Reviews

  • A voice for the victims

    5
    By Emily Lena s
    This is a must read. Made me want to fight for the victims of this cult. All i can do for now is share this book and their stories and hope that enough publicity will help the fight for justice.

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