What goes on behind the locked gates of the Body Farm wbir.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbir.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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I grew up in an off-the-grid Christian commune. Here s what I know about America s religious beliefs
Classifying American Christians into the imaginary phyla of cults and not-cults is a dangerous mistake
SHAWNA KAY RODENBERG
JUNE 26, 2021
The only time I saw Brother Sam in person, he was marching like a soldier as he preached, with sweat running like tears from his temples and the Bible a heavy brick in his right hand.
It was 1978, I was five, and my family had traveled to Lubbock, Texas, for a Body Convention, which was what we called the semi-annual gatherings of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of members of The Body, or Body of Christ, an expansive network of charismatic communities created almost singlehandedly by Brother Sam.
Corpses, the Body Farm and Dr Bill Bass wbir.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbir.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The University of Tennessee’s forensic research center made Popular Science magazine’s list of top summer destinations for “Geek Getaways,” but officials really don’t want tourists to visit.
The University of Tennessee’s forensic research center made Popular Science magazine’s list of top summer destinations for “Geek Getaways,” but officials really don’t want tourists to visit.
Representatives at the school’s Body Farm its official name is the Anthropology Research Facility where human corpses are allowed to decompose and are studied, say they constantly refuse public requests for tours.
“I could work probably 20 hours a day, seven days a week doing nothing but showing people the Body Farm,” said Dr. Bill Bass, founder of the Body Farm. “We have just hundreds of requests.”
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The only time I saw Brother Sam in person, he was marching like a soldier as he preached, with sweat running like tears from his temples and the Bible a heavy brick in his right hand.
It was 1978, I was five, and my family had traveled to Lubbock, Texas, for a Body Convention, which was what we called the semi-annual gatherings of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of members of The Body, or Body of Christ, an expansive network of charismatic communities created almost singlehandedly by Brother Sam.