And I grew up with that kind of terror, and I did not tell anyone until I was an adult woman.Īs a child growing up, as a woman, I was taught that the very highest thing I could ever hope to attain was to become a mother in Zion, to be perfectly obedient to the prophet, and one day have the opportunity to be placed by a good priesthood man, to be perfectly obedient to him. In my personal experience, I had an older half-brother who sexually abused me and some of my sisters, and even though his mother found out, I was threatened as a 5-year-old little girl. Book 1: The Vision and Definite Steps for the Practice of the New Way (CWWL, 1986, vol. Bookmark, annotate, and view referenced Scripture reading to assist study of the ministry of these servants of the Lord. And there were also sexual violations going on. Read, search, and listen to the entire collections of the writings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. My father's first wife did not grow up around polygamy, and the story goes that she at first welcomed my mother into the family but quickly turned to extreme jealousy, and there was a tremendous amount of physical abuse. Witness is a powerfully told story of how the residents of one small Vermont town reacted to the arrival and infiltration of the Klu Klux Klan in the early. Musser told her story to NPR's Jacki Lyden. Musser tells the harrowing story of her childhood, her marriage, and her eventual escape in her book, The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice.
#The witness book series
Following his death, Musser made the terrifying decision to escape from the church into an outside world she had been taught to fear. From New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson comes Witness, a new epic fantasy series directly following the celebrated Malazan Book of the Fallen. When she was just 19 years old, she was forced to marry the 85-year-old Rulon.
Musser grew up in the FLDS church, under the control of Warren Jeffs and his father, Rulon.
#The witness book trial
The star witness in Jeffs' trial was a young woman named Rebecca Musser.
#The witness book plus
The church's leader, Warren Jeffs, was sentenced to life plus 20 years behind bars for sexually assaulting children. She volunteered to take the message to China. A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. Police raided an FLDS compound in Texas where they found hundreds of women and girls. A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries. M.In 2007, a breakaway extremist offshoot of the Mormon Church called the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints made national news.
Written by select authors, Can I Get a Witness? showcases vibrant storytelling and research-enriched narrative to bring these significant “peculiar people” to life. This book is a much-needed course correction for the Church. Now Deputy US Marshal Micah Bender must protect the single mother from becoming another victim. Their prophetic witness still speaks today.Ĭomprising a variety of voices-Catholic and Protestant, gay and straight, men and women of different racial backgrounds-these activist witnesses represent the best of the church’s peacemakers, community builders, and inside agitators. Finding a safe haven is the only way to stay alive When crime scene cleaner Lissa Page discovers a clue at a murder site, shes attacked and becomes the killers new target. How do we transform American Culture through our religious convictions?ĭiscover here the compelling stories of thirteen pioneers for social justice who engaged in peaceful protest and gave voice to the marginalized, working courageously out of their religious convictions to transform American culture.
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