I am a survivor of the Church of the Living Word Culf founded by the late John Robert Stevens. There – I said it! I am no longer afraid. It has taken me many decades to sort out, “How did Christian Tabernacle go from church to cult”? It turns out that I was not alone […]
Compassionate Church to Cult How does a loving small-town mid-western church go from pretty normal to a cult known as The Walk? Christian Tabernacle was a Bible-focused church in Washington, Iowa for many years before the idea of The Walk started. We appreciated strong moral values in our elders and felt a sense of belonging […]
I am grateful for the Sunday School Lessons that I learned when I was a child. Little did I or any of the congregation of the Christian Tabernacle church I attended to realize that our Midwestern Bible-based church would be systematically seduced by a cult leader from the West Coast. In retrospect, I can recall […]
This is my personal history of how a good Christian girl, an active member of a loving church, Christian Tabernacle, in a small town in Washington, Iowa was ashamed of her youth group peers who were members of a religious group known as The Walk. Now, that the Church of the Living Word cult has […]
