Megan James was quite literally born into the Xenos movement, when it was morphing from it’s original early 1970’s Fish House Fellowship days into the form of an actual church complete with polity, budgets and a primal need to start replicating its vision through private church educational institution. Her parents were caught up into the social and intellectual draw of the group, and she was one of the very first specimens that were dissected in the religious machinery cobbled together by Xenos to educate it’s young, even calling herself and her childhood peers the “prototypes” of their work. This ominously mechanistic verbiage, sadly, would be all too accurate as we shall see. This is the second of 2 90 minute parts. WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT MAY CAUSE TRIGGERING FOR SURVIVORS OF RELIGIOUS AND SEXUAL ABUSE.
Megan James was quite literally born into the Xenos movement, when it was morphing from it’s original early 1970’s Fish House Fellowship days into the form of an actual church complete with polity, budgets and a primal need to start replicating its vision through private church educational institution. Her parents were caught up into the social and intellectual draw of the group, and she was one of the very first specimens that were dissected in the religious machinery cobbled together by Xenos to educate it’s young, even calling herself and her childhood peers the “prototypes” of their work. This ominously mechanistic verbiage, sadly, would be all too accurate as we shall see. This is the first of 2 90 minute parts. WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT MAY CAUSE TRIGGERING FOR SURVIVORS OF RELIGIOUS AND SEXUAL ABUSE.
The recent emergence of Michael Shamblin from the shadowy exile he took after quitting his involvement with the Remnant Fellowship cult circles which his late mother Gwen Shamblin Lara created has focused attention on the movement once again. Clearly identifying Remnant as a cult, Michael's confirming epiphany is rocking it to its core, even as it struggles to regain stability and even viability in the face of a seriously uncertain future. On our Spiritwatch stream, we are glad to host Richard and Terasee Morris with Doug and Sherry Vasey, four former members of the Remnant as they are sharing their views on the state of the Remnant movement and its legacy.
Kim Curry just wanted to belong, to love and be loved among a community of supposedly true believers after a turbulent childhood and her coming out as gay with a longing to find a refuge. That didn't keep the place she thought was a haven from becoming a literal hell on earth like no other - the cultic movement called Xenos/Dwell. It fancies itself to be a cutting edge "non traditional" "church" but listen closely as she unpacks the burden she was saddled with by the movement's culture of top-down elitism and group shaming and ask yourself if there's really anything "loving", much less "Christian" about it. . WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT MAY CAUSE TRIGGERING FOR SURVIVORS OF RELIGIOUS ABUSE.
Cultic movements are among the masses of religious people who reject Christmas and of them all, none are more vocal about it than the Watchtower Society. Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout the year and especially in December, have for decades preach a hard line rejection of the Yuletime season and the specious reasoning they cling to demands to be closely regarded. Thanks to our Spiritwatch archives, we’re bringing to you a 1996 home BIble study talk delivered by Dr. Robert Bowman, a Christian apologist who at the time was serving as a researcher with the Atlanta Christian Apologetics Project based there in the Peach State. Most all of the objections to Christmas observance set forth by sincere Christians believing it should be shunned are preserved in the reasoning of Jehovah’s Witness disputes about it. We trust it will be a thought provoking bit of discussion on how to answer these objections using sound Biblical review and critical thinking.