Spiritual Blackmail

Spiritual Blackmail
Author: Sherri Schettler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692331972

"Spiritual Blackmail" is a timely story in the wake of the 50th anniversary of Vatican II and the recent dual canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. While the changes brought about by Vatican II were welcomed by many Catholics, they caused a great deal of consternation for others, including Sherri's parents. Their well-meaning choice to escape from what they believed was the "corruption" of their beloved Church and to join a renegade traditionalist group and its charismatic, abusive leader had significant, long-term effects on Sherri - effects that she continues to deal with as a Catholic in the 21st Century. "Spiritual Blackmail" testifies to the triumph of the human spirit in the face of spiritual turmoil, but also to the powerful truth that it is possible to find the good and a reason for gratitude even amid seeming abandonment and betrayal by those most trusted.

The God That Prevailed

The God That Prevailed
Author: Dennis Embo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2005-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780595340316

The God That Prevailed traces the journey of an adopted Catholic of the baby boom generation who joins a religious cult and his incredible thirty-year spiritual odyssey back to Catholicism. Dennis Gerard Embo, eldest of six adopted children, dreamed of serving as a Catholic missionary priest in central Africa. Not long after entering the seminary in 1970, Embo abandoned Catholicism and became an ardent disciple of an eccentric, West Coast advertising-genius-turned-televangelist by the name of Herbert W. Armstrong. The eventful journey includes Embo's sometimes-bizarre experiences after pledging unquestioning allegiance to Armstrong's secretive, heretical sect-the Worldwide Church of God. Only years after the death of Herbert Armstrong did Embo and tens of thousands of other sect members awaken, as if out of a spiritual stupor, to acknowledge the extent of their departure from the historic Christian faith. Thus begins Embo's pilgrimage with his wife back to the Catholic faith. Embo's poignant reunion with his birthmother in 1977 is a critical part of his story. His experiences as an adoptee later brought him to a profound appreciation of Catholicism's 2,000 year-old proclamation of the Gospel of Life. The God That Prevailed is a thrilling and inspiring spiritual journey.

An Unusual Journey

An Unusual Journey
Author: William Smith
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2014-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1499021542

When You Join a Cult You Shall: You Lose Your Freedom: Recognize leader's authority For satisfaction Never doubt his command To your basic rights Work tirelessly To know the truth Achieve perfection To sexual morality Never be emotional To be sensitive Never indulge yourself To be yourself Punish yourself To be joyful Sacrifice yourself To love Follow orders blindly To feel Never think for yourself To read Deny your friends To write Deny your family To speak Never complain To care Never cry For pride

From Damaged to Destined

From Damaged to Destined
Author: Karen Hutchins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2018-12-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578426792

"From Damaged to Destined" tells a no-holds-barred story of Karen Hutchins, a beautiful young woman who comes to California from Belize with her family. She was raised in Catholicism, but soon was introduced to the Protestant church. Although she loved the demonstrative and spirited services, she had no idea she was being sucked into a cult.

Combatting Cult Mind Control

Combatting Cult Mind Control
Author: Steven Hassan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1990
Genre: Cults
ISBN: 9781855380257

Describes the psychological techniques cults use to indoctrinate their members and discusses deprogramming.

A Woman Rides the Beast

A Woman Rides the Beast
Author: Dave Hunt
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1994-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1565071999

Are you missing half the story about the last days? Virtually all attention these days is focused on the coming Antichrist—but he is only half the story. Many people are amazed to discover in Revelation 17 that there is also another mysterious character at the heart of prophecy—a woman who rides the beast. Who is this woman? Tradition says she is connected with the church of Rome. But isn’t such a view outdated? After all, today’s Vatican is eager to join hands with Protestants worldwide. “The Catholic church has changed” is what we hear. Or has it? In A Woman Rides the Beast, prophecy expert Dave Hunt sifts through biblical truth and global events to present a well-defined portrait of the woman and her powerful place in the Antichrist’s future empire. Eight remarkable clues in Revelation 17 and 18 prove the woman’s identity beyond any reasonable doubt. A provocative account of what the Bible tells us is to come.

The Movement of the Free Spirit

The Movement of the Free Spirit
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book by the legendary Situationist activist and author of The Revolution of Everyday Life examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority in Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s. Although Vaneigem discusses a number of different movements such as the Cathars and Joachimite millenarians, his main emphasis is on the various manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit in northern Europe. He sees not only resistance to the power of state and church but also the immensely creative invention of new forms of love, sexuality, community, and exchange. Vaneigem is particularly interested in the radical opposition presented by these movements to the imperatives of an emerging market-based economy, and he evokes crucial historical parallels with the antisystemic rebellions of the 1960s. The book includes translations of original texts and source materials.

Little Sister

Little Sister
Author: Patricia Walsh Chadwick
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1682617831

Imagine an eighteen-year-old American girl who has never read a newspaper, watched television, or made a phone call. An eighteen-year-old-girl who has never danced—and this in the 1960s. It is in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Leonard Feeney, a controversial (soon to be excommunicated) Catholic priest, has founded a religious community called the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Center's members—many of them educated at Harvard and Radcliffe—surrender all earthly possessions and aspects of their life, including their children, to him. Patricia Chadwick was one of those children, and Little Sister is her account of growing up in the Feeney sect. Separated from her parents and forbidden to speak to them, Patricia bristles against the community’s draconian rules, yearning for another life. When, at seventeen, she is banished from the Center, her home, she faces the world alone, without skills, family, or money but empowered with faith and a fierce determination to succeed on her own, which she does, rising eventually to the upper echelons of the world of finance and investing. A tale of resilience and grace, Little Sister chronicles, in riveting prose, a surreal childhood and does so without rancor or self-pity.

Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council

Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council
Author: Jenny Ponzo
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2019-03-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 311049602X

This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed by Italian writers about the biblical narration of human origins and traditional religious language and ritual, the perceived clash between the immanent and transcendent nature and role of the Church, and the problematic notion of sanctity emerging from contemporary narrative.