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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. ....

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