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Let Us Prey explores accounts of alleged physical and sexual abuse in the Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) movement, a network of churches with approximately 8 million members. [1] According to the series, the claims of abuse were covered up by various influential IFB figures, including Jack Hyles , [ 3 ] Jack Schaap, [ 3 ] Bruce Goddard ...
The New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement (also known as the New IFB or NIFB) is an association of Christian right King James Only, independent Baptist churches. The New IFB began with Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in response to perceived liberalism in other independent Baptist churches. The New IFB does not consider ...
Anderson established Faithful Word Baptist Church as a fundamentalist Independent Baptist church in Tempe, Arizona, on Christmas Day in December 2005 and he remains its pastor. The church describes itself as "an old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible–only, soul-winning Baptist church."
At First Baptist of Hammond, protesters are demanding transparency from the current pastor and a move to formally denounce past leaders. Scripps News reached out to the First Baptist of Hammond.
The Independent spoke to six former members, four women and two men, who were born into Homestead Heritage and left the church as adults. Two of the women later filed a complaint with the state ...
"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate, a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet. The deceased ...
The beliefs are mainly Baptist and fundamentalist. [10] They refuse any form of ecclesial authority other than that of the local church. Great emphasis is placed on the literal interpretation of the Bible as the primary method of Bible study [11] as well as the biblical inerrancy and the infallibility of their interpretation. [12]
But the church, she says, was actually a cult. Walker spent her formative years, since age 8, in the group. She says it was a place where members were unable to question leaders "without facing ...