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Feb 27, 2017 · Cooper, who spent a few years working as a teacher’s aide in Word of Faith Fellowship leader Jane Whaley’s class, said she encouraged the violence meant to beat out devils and warned students not to say anything to their parents.
Feb 27, 2017 · They are listed as co-pastors but all of those interviewed said it is Jane Whaley — a fiery, 77-year-old Christian “charismatic” preacher — who maintains dictatorial control of the flock and also...
Word of Faith Fellowship began in 1979, when Jane Whaley, then a math teacher, and her husband Sam Whaley converted a former steakhouse into a chapel. Jane Whaley, the daughter of a plumber and a homemaker in rural North Carolina, led the group as it grew to a membership of 750.
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The Coopers’ journey to Word of Faith began in the ‘90s in Georgia, where Suzanne’s then-husband, Rick Cooper, was a pastor. She was pregnant with her seventh child when she and Rick moved from their home in Darien to Spindale so Rick could attend the Bible school at Word of Faith, where their children would also be enrolled. “For the first year or...
Word of Faith has vehemently denied the allegations against it, with an entire section on the church’s website marked “Response to Media Lies” and another called “The Truth About [Word of Faith].” One statement on the website, attributed to an attorney named Josh B. Farmer, says, in part, “Our church has been the target of religious bigotry and per...
Weiss says that his and Mohr’s inspiration to write the book — after having teamed up multiple times on various AP articles about Word of Faith — wasn’t born from a desire to cover a “cult,” exactly. Rather it came from an initial conversation Weiss had with church member Michael Lowry in 2012 — and a follow-up one months later, in which the young ...
For Weiss, the most “stunning” aspect of studying Word of Faith and the response of law enforcement “was just the way the institutions fail. These are institutions — law enforcement, district attorney — that are there to protect people. And yet in every case, when people came to them for help, they looked the other way. They made excuses for not do...
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Mar 6, 2017 · Back and Webster, who is sect leader Jane Whaley's son-in-law, also helped derail a social services investigation into child abuse in 2015 and attended meetings where Whaley warned congregants to lie to investigators about abuse incidents, according to nine former members.
Dec 14, 2017 · When Whaley arrived, she pointed to Anderson and a group of “troublemakers” she called the “five boys.” For two hours, he said, Whaley screamed and shamed them. They were expected to fall to the floor and cry out to Jesus for forgiveness.
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Feb 17, 2020 · Broken Faith. Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults. By Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr. Purchase. In recent years, the organization has been investigated for...
