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The Family International
Abridgement TFI
Type Christian cult
Leader Karen Zerby (1994–present)
Founder David Berg
Branched from The Family
Other name(s)
  • Teens for Christ
  • The Children of God
  • The Family unit of Honey
  • The Family
Official website thefamilyinternational.org

The Family International (TFI) is a Christian New Religious Movement founded in Huntington Embankment, California, USA, in 1968 by David Berg that has been criticized as an disciplinarian cult.[1] [2] Originally named Teens for Christ, information technology has gone under a number of different names. Information technology gained notoriety as The Children of God (COG). It was later on renamed and reorganized as The Family of Love (1978–1981), which was eventually shortened to The Family. As of 2004, it has gone by The Family International.

Sometime members take defendant the grouping of child sexual abuse, physical abuse, exploitation,[3] the targeting of vulnerable people,[4] and creating lasting trauma among children raised in the grouping.[v]

Overview [edit]

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, "at its height" the Family movement had "tens of thousands of members, including River and Joaquin Phoenix, Rose McGowan and Jeremy Spencer".[four] TFI initially spread a message of salvation, apocalypticism, spiritual "revolution and happiness" and distrust of the outside world, which the members called The System. Like some other fundamentalist groups, it "foretold the coming of a dictator called the anti-Christ, the rise of a brutal Ane Earth Government and its eventual overthrow by Jesus Christ, in the 2d Coming".[6]

In 1976,[seven] it began a method of evangelism chosen Flirty Angling that used sex to "show God's love and mercy" and win converts, resulting in controversy.[viii] TFI's founder and prophetic leader, David Berg (who was offset called "Moses David" in the Texas printing[ citation needed ], and was also referred to "Father David" by members),[6] gave himself the titles of "King", "The Last Endtime Prophet", "Moses", and "David".

Berg communicated with his followers via "Mo Letters"—letters of educational activity and counsel on myriad spiritual and practical subjects—until his expiry in late 1994.[9] After his death, his widow Karen Zerby became the leader of TFI, taking the titles of "Queen" and "Prophetess". Zerby married Steve Kelly (also known as Peter Amsterdam), an banana of Berg's whom Berg had handpicked equally her "consort". Kelly took the title of "King Peter" and became the face of TFI, speaking in public more than often than either Berg or Zerby. There have been multiple allegations of kid sexual corruption made by past members.[10] [eleven]

Berg preached a combination of traditional Christian evangelism, with elements popular with the Counterculture of the 1960s. There was much "finish-of-the-world imagery" found in the Volume of Revelation of the New Attestation, preaching of impending doom for America and the ineffectiveness of established churches. Berg "urged a return to the early Christian community described in the Bible'southward Book of Acts, in which believers lived together and shared all",[6] resembling communal living of belatedly 1960s hippies.

History [edit]

The Children of God (1968–1977) [edit]

The founder of the movement, David Brandt Berg (1919–1994), was a erstwhile Christian and Missionary Brotherhood pastor.[12] Berg started in 1968 every bit an evangelical preacher with a following of "born-again hippies" who gathered at a coffeehouse in Huntington Beach, in Orangish County, California. In 1969, after having a revelation "that California would be hitting by a major earthquake", he left Huntington Beach and "took his followers on the road".[six]

They would proselytize in the streets and distribute pamphlets. Leaders within COG were referred to as The Chain. Members of The Children of God (COG) founded communes, first called colonies (at present referred to as homes), in various cities.

Berg communicated with his followers by writing letters. He published nearly 3,000 letters over a menstruation of 24 years, referred to every bit the Mo Letters.[13] In a alphabetic character written in Jan 1972, Berg stated that he was God's prophet for the gimmicky globe, attempting to further solidify his spiritual authority within the group. Berg's messages besides contained public acknowledgement of his ain failings and weaknesses,[fourteen] [ verification needed ] (for instance, he issued a Mo Letter entitled "My confession -- I was an alcoholic!" (ML #1406 Summertime 1982) relating his low after some of his closest supporters quit in 1978).[fifteen]

In 1972, a Mo Letter reportedly entitled "Flee as a Bird to Your Mountain" was interpreted by some members (such as Ruth Gordon) equally a warning to leave America. "God was going to destroy the U.S. ... and nosotros had to go out." This, forth with the pressure members felt that parents were trying to "rescue" children who had joined CoG, encouraged members to "[migrate] abroad -- start to Europe, eventually to Latin America and East Asia".[6]

By 1972, COG stated information technology had 130 communities effectually the world,[sixteen] and past the mid-1970s, it had "colonies" in an estimated 70 countries.[vi] BBC reported x,000 full-time COG members in the 1970s.[three]

In 1976,[7] Berg had introduced a new proselytizing method chosen Flirty Line-fishing (or FFing), which encouraged female members to "evidence God'due south dearest" through sexual relationships with potential converts. Flirty Fishing was practiced past members of Berg's inner circle starting in 1973, and was introduced to the general membership in 1976.[17]

The Family unit of Love (1978–1981) [edit]

A grade of dear bombing, Flirty Fishing encouraged female members to enter sexual relationships with potential converts

The Children of God was abolished in February 1978, and Berg renamed his grouping "The Family of Dearest"[6] In what Berg called the "Re-organisation Nationalization Revolution" (or RNR).[eighteen] Berg reorganized the movement, dismissing "more than 300 leading members later hearing unspecified 'reports of serious misconduct and abuse of their positions."[half dozen] Reportedly involved were The Chain's abuse of authority, and disagreements within it about the continued use of Flirty Angling. The grouping was besides accused of sexually abusing and raping minors within the system, with considerable evidence to back up this merits. One eighth of the total membership left the movement. Those who remained became part of a reorganized movement called the Family of Love, and later, The Family. The majority of the group's beliefs remained the same.[17]

The Family unit of Love era was characterized past international expansion.

After 1978 Flirty Fishing "increased drastically"[15] and became common practice within the group. A Mo Letter from 1980 (ML #999 May 1980) for example was headlined "The Devil Hates Sexual activity! --- But God Loves It!".[nineteen] In some areas flirty fishers used escort agencies to meet potential converts. According to TFI "over 100,000 received God's gift of salvation through Jesus, and some chose to live the life of a disciple and missionary" as a result of Flirty Fishing.[17] Researcher Bill Bainbridge obtained information from TFI suggesting that, from 1974 until 1987, members had sexual contact with 223,989 people while practicing Flirty Fishing.[20]

The Family (1982–1994) [edit]

Co-ordinate to the Family's official history, the group had "far fewer common standards of bear" during The Family of Love stage than information technology had previously. In the late 1980s the group "tightened its standards" "to ensure that all member communities provide a very wholesome environment for all, particularly the children", and inverse its name to "The Family".[half-dozen] In March 1989, TF issued a statement that, in "early 1985", an urgent memorandum had been sent to all members "reminding them that whatever such activities [adult–kid sexual contact] are strictly forbidden inside our group" (emphasis in original), and such activities were grounds for immediate excommunication from the group.[21] In January 2005, Claire Borowik, a spokesperson for TFI, stated:

Due to the fact that our current zero-tolerance policy regarding sexual interaction betwixt adults and underage minors was non in our literature published before 1986, we came to the realization that during a transitional stage of our movement, from 1978 until 1986, in that location were cases when some minors were subject to sexually inappropriate advances ... This was corrected officially in 1986, when whatsoever contact between an developed and modest (any person under 21 years of age) was declared an excommunicable criminal offense.[22]

In the early 1990s, the group broke "years of virtual silence" and began "inviting reporters and religious scholars" to visit its commune in La Habra, California, where at least a Washington Post announcer (Gustav Niebuhr) found its members to be "a groomed bunch, friendly and courteous". At that time The Family claimed to take "about nine,000 members worldwide, with about 750 scattered across the United States".[6] The group emphasized its mainstream Christian opposition to ballgame, homosexuality, drugs and drunkenness and its respect for Rev. Billy Graham.[half-dozen]

The Family (1995–2003) [edit]

After Berg'due south decease in October 1994, Karen Zerby (known in the group as Mama Maria, Queen Maria, Maria David, or Maria Fontaine) assumed leadership of the group.

In February 1995, the grouping introduced the Beloved Charter,[23] which divers the rights and responsibilities of Lease Members and Homes. The Lease besides included the Fundamental Family Rules, a summary of rules and guidelines from past TF publications which were still in effect.

In the 1994–95 British court case, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Alan Ward ruled that the group, including some of its top leaders, had in the past engaged in abusive sexual practices involving minors and had likewise used astringent corporal penalty and sequestration of minors.[24] He found that past 1995 TF had abandoned these practices and concluded that they were a condom environment for children. Nevertheless, he did require that the group stop all corporal punishment of children in the United kingdom and denounce any of Berg's writings that were "responsible for children in TF having been subjected to sexually inappropriate behaviour".[25]

The Family unit International (2004–present) [edit]

The Honey Charter is The Family'southward set governing document that entails each fellow member'due south rights, responsibilities and requirements, while the Missionary Fellow member Statutes and Boyfriend Member Statutes were written for the governance of TFI'south Missionary fellow member and Fellow Fellow member circles, respectively. FD Homes were reviewed every half-dozen months against a published set of criteria. The Beloved Charter increased the number of unmarried family unit homes as well equally homes that relied on jobs such as self-employment.[26]

Contempo teachings [edit]

TFI'due south recent teachings are based on behavior which they term the "new [spiritual] weapons". TFI members believe that they are soldiers in the spiritual war of good versus evil for the souls and hearts of men.

Spirit Helpers [edit]

"Spirit Helpers" include angels, other religious and mythical figures, and departed humans, including celebrities; for example the goddess Aphrodite, the Snowman, Merlin, the Sphinx, Elvis,[27] Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn,[28] Richard Nixon, and Winston Churchill.

The Keys of the Kingdom [edit]

TFI believes that the Biblical passage "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you demark on earth volition be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on globe will be loosed in heaven", (Matthew 16:19) refers to an increasing amount of spiritual authority that was given to Peter and the early disciples. According to TFI beliefs, this passage refers to keys that were hidden and unused in the centuries that followed, merely were again revealed through Karen Zerby as more ability to pray and obtain miracles. TFI members call on the various Keys of the Kingdom for extra issue during prayer. The Keys, like nigh TFI beliefs, were published in magazines that looked similar comic-books in society to make them teachable to children.[29] These beliefs are all the same generally held and proficient, even after the "reboot" documents of 2010.[ citation needed ]

Loving Jesus [edit]

"Loving Jesus" is a term TFI members use to describe their intimate, sexual relationship with Jesus. TFI describes its "Loving Jesus" teaching as a radical form of conjugal theology.[30] They believe the church building of followers is Christ'southward helpmate, chosen to love and serve him with wifely fervor; withal, this bridal theology is taken further, encouraging members to imagine Jesus is joining them during sexual intercourse and masturbation. Male members are cautioned to visualize themselves as women, in order to avert a homosexual human relationship with Jesus. Many TFI publications, and spirit messages claimed to exist from Jesus himself, elaborate this intimate, sexual relation they believe Jesus desires and needs. TFI imagines itself as his special "bride" in graphic poetry, guided visualizations, artwork,[31] and songs.[32] Some TFI literature is not brought into bourgeois countries for fear it may exist classified at customs as pornography.[33] The literature outlining this view of Jesus and his desire for a sexual human relationship with believers was edited for younger teens,[34] then farther edited for children.[35]

Controversy [edit]

Second-generation adults (known every bit "SGAs") are adults born or reared in TFI.

Anti-TFI sentiment has been publicly expressed by some who have left the group; examples include sisters Celeste Jones, Kristina Jones, and Juliana Buhring, who wrote a book[36] on their lives in TFI.[37]

TFI members are expected to respect legal and ceremonious authorities where they live. Members have typically cooperated with appointed authorities, even during the police force and social-service raids of their communities in the early 1990s.[38]

Criticism [edit]

The Family has been criticized by the press and the anti-cult movement. Ex-members accept accused the Family'south leadership of following "a policy of lying to outsiders," being "steeped in a history of sexual deviance" and fifty-fifty meddling "in Third World politics". The Family unit replies that it is a victim of "persecution."[six]

In 1971, an organization chosen FREECOG was founded by concerned parents and others, including deprogrammer Ted Patrick to "free" members of the COG from their involvement in the grouping. Academics categorize TFI as a "new religious movement" and a cult.[39] [xl]

At least ane individual growing up in the family unit (Verity Carter) during the Children of God era described being sexually abused "from the age of iv past members of the... cult, including her ain father". She blames the philosophy of David Berg, who told members that "God was love and love was sexual practice", so that sexual activity should non exist express past age or relationship. Carter likewise complains of being "repeatedly beaten and whipped for the smallest of transgressions", being denied "music or tv or culture," or other "contact with the exterior earth," so that she had "no idea how the world worked" other than how to manipulate the "systemites" (outsiders), like social workers.[3]

Author Don Lattin interviewed numerous members of the Family unit for his volume Jesus Freaks. In a review of his book, Paul Burgarino describes Berg every bit "drawing from the remnants of hippie life—people with nothing to lose, nowhere to become, and no Christian background" to alert them to deviations in Berg's preaching.[5] One ex-Children of God member, Jerry Golland, describes himself at the time of joining the group as penniless and so depressed that the Children of God scraped him "off the street".[4] Members would "larn to spot, you know... a vulnerable person. We chosen them sheep", Golland told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[4]

Pressure to heighten money could as well be intense. Ex-member Golland says that members who were expert at raising money and distributing the pamphlets were called "Shiners". Those with poor sales were called "Shamers". "If you lot missed your quota y'all could not come home for dinner", he said.[iv]

Notable members (past and present) [edit]

Joined in machismo [edit]

  • Jeremy Spencer, dejection slide guitarist and a founding fellow member of Fleetwood Mac, which he left in 1971 when he joined TFI.[41]

Raised in the COG and later on left [edit]

  • Christopher Owens: musician, of San Francisco indie band Girls, was brought upwards in TFI past his parents.[42] [43]
  • Celeste Jones and Kristina Jones: co-authors, along with Juliana Buhring, of Not Without My Sister, an autobiography detailing all-encompassing abuse they suffered in COG.[44] This book is used by the system RAINN every bit a reference for kid sexual abuse victims.
  • Juliana Buhring: first woman to bicycle around the earth[45] and co-author of Not Without My Sister.
  • Rose McGowan: motion-picture show actress, described her TFI childhood in interviews with Howard Stern,[46] People magazine[47] and later on in her volume Brave.
  • River Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix: actors, were members of the group (with their sis Liberty Phoenix) from 1972 to 1978. River Phoenix, who died of a drug overdose in 1993, told Details magazine in November 1991 that "they're ruining people'south lives."[48]
  • Susan Justice: American pop rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, known best for her debut cocky-recorded album, The Subway Recordings.
  • Tina Dupuy: American journalist and syndicated columnist.
  • Ricky Rodriguez: field of study of the suppressed transmission advocating adult-kid sexual contact, committed a murder-suicide in 2005, killing one of the women who raised and allegedly sexually abused him, then himself.[10]
  • Lauren Hough: author,[49] brought up in TFI.
  • Flor Edwards, writer,[50] who was raised inside the cult before her parents moved out.
  • Dawn Watson: Brazilian, victim of sexual abuse while living in a TFI community.[11]
  • Taylor Stevens, author,[51] brought up in the cult from age 12 until she left in her twenties with her two children.
  • Bexy Cameron, British kid fellow member who left aged 15 and later on wrote a volume near her experiences.[52]
  • Faith Jones, raised in the cult in the Far East and later left and became a lawyer. She wrote about her life in the volume Sex Cult Nun.[53]

Media featuring the group [edit]

  • The Jesus Trip (1971), a documentary by Denis Tuohy that has interviews with Children of God members.
  • Children of God (1994), a 63-minute Aqueduct 4 documentary by John Smithson; detailing the Padilla family and the abuse of their three underage daughters and the death of another.
  • Children of God: Lost and Found, a 75-minute documentary by Noah Thomson, featured at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival.[54]
  • Cult Killer: The Rick Rodriguez Story (53-minute Great britain documentary with transcript).[55]
  • In the first episode of Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, "Born Again Christians", Louis visits a Texas TFI family.
  • Buzzcocks mentions the grouping (as "Children Of God") in their song, "Orgasm Addict".
  • RedLetterMedia featured the Family International video "South.O.S." on an episode of "Best of the Worst."[56]
  • Mentioned in Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru documentary at 52 minutes of the film equally an organization where children are forced to have sexual activity from the age of six.[57]
  • The Parcast Podcast Cults: Episodes 11 and 12.[58]
  • Citizen Rose: A five part documentary serial shown on the E! Aqueduct. The first episode premiered on January 30, 2018. The series follows actress Rose McGowan who was built-in into the cult.
  • The Terminal Podcast on the Left did a four part series on the cult: Episodes 248-251[59]

    Christian movement founded in 1968

  • The Dan Cummins podcast Timesuck covered the cult in episode 104, "The Children of God Sexual activity Cult."
  • AJJ released a song entitled "Children of God" on their 2014 anthology Christmas Island.
  • A&East's Cults and Farthermost Conventionalities, episode 3 (2018) is about the Children of God.[lx]

See besides [edit]

  • Comet Kohoutek was viewed by David Berg as a prophetic sign of imminent disaster.
  • Jim Palosaari co-formed the Jesus People Regular army, left it earlier the group joined the Children of God, and tried to convince Linda Meissner non to join it.
  • Love bombing describes a manipulative style of recruiting.
  • Panton Colina, Victoria is the location of one of the communes, where a large government raid occurred and many children were removed by social services.

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Further reading [edit]

  • Davis, Deborah (Linda Berg) (1984). THE CHILDREN OF GOD: The Inside Story. Zondervan Books, K Rapids, Michigan. ISBN 0-310-27840-six. Expose by the founder'south eldest daughter who left the cult.

Academic [edit]

  • Chancellor, James (2000). Life in The Family: An Oral History of the Children of God. Academy of Syracuse Press, Syracuse, NY.
  • Bainbridge, William Sims (2002). The Endtime Family: Children of God. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-5264-half-dozen.
  • Bainbridge, William Sims (1996). The Sociology of Religious Movements. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-91202-4.
  • Barker, Eileen. (1989). New Religious Movements, A Applied Introduction. Her Majesty's Stationery Part. ISBN 0-eleven-340927-3.
  • Barker, Eileen. (2021). "Children of God/The Family International Armageddon". In James Crossley and Alastair Lockhart (eds.) Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements.
  • Barrett, DV (1996). Sects, Cults and Alternative Religions. Blandford A. Cassell. ISBN 0-7137-2567-2.
  • Boeri, Miriam Williams (2002). "Women After the Utopia: The Gendered Lives of Quondam Cult Members". Periodical of Gimmicky Ethnography. 31 (3): 323–360. doi:10.1177/0891241602031003003. S2CID 145652798.
  • Kent, Stephen A. (1994). "Lustful prophet: A psycho-sexual historical study of the children of god'southward leader, David Berg". Cultic Studies Periodical. eleven (two): 135–188.
  • Kent, Stephen A. (1994). "Misattribution and social control in the Children of God". Journal of Organized religion and Health. 33 (1): 29–43. doi:ten.1007/BF02354497. PMID 24263783. S2CID 24012781.
  • Kent, Stephen A. (2000). "Brainwashing and re-indoctrination programs in the Children of God/The Family". Cultic Studies Journal. 17: 56–78.
  • Lewis, James R, and Melton, J. Gordon (eds). (1994). Sex, Slander, and Conservancy: Investigating The Family unit/Children of God. Center for Academic Press, Stanford, CA.
  • Lynch, Dalva, and Paul Carden (1990). "Within the 'Heavenly Elite': The Children of God Today.". Christian Research Journal, pp xvi.
  • McFarland, Robert (1994). "The Children of God." The Journal of Psychohistory four(21).
  • Melton, J. Gordon (2004). The Children of God, "The Family" (Studies in Contemporary Faith vol. vii). Signature Books. ISBN 1-56085-180-v.
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  • Melton, J. Gordon and Robert L. Moore (1982). The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism. The Pilgrim Press, New York, USA.
  • Palmer, Susan J. (1994). "Heaven's Children: The Children of God's Second Generation" in Sexual practice, Slander, and Salvation, op. cit.
  • Palmer, Susan J., and Charlotte Hardman eds. (1999). Children in New Religions (3rd ed.). Rutgers University Printing. ISBN 0-8135-2620-5.
  • Shepherd, Gary, and Lawrence Lilliston (1994). "Field Observations of Young People's Experience and Role in The Family" in Sex, Slander, and Salvation, op. cit.
  • Shepherd, Gary, and Shepherd, Gordon (August 2005). "Accommodation and Reformation in The Family/Children of God" Archived March 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Nova Religio (Periodical of the University of California)
  • Shepherd, Gary and Shepherd, Gordon (Jump 2000)."The Moral Career of a New Religious Motility" The Oakland Periodical.
  • Wilson, Bryan and Jamie Cresswell, eds. (1999). New Religious Movements: Challenge and Response. Routledge, London, UK.
  • Wright, Stuart (1987). Leaving Cults: The Dynamics of Defection. Society for the Scientific Written report of Religion. Washington, D.C., United states of america. ISBN 0-932566-06-five (Contains interviews with ex-members of three groups, among others the Children of God)
  • Van Zandt, David (1991). Living in the Children of God. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Bailiwick of jersey.
  • Young, Shawn David, Hippies, Jesus Freaks, and Music (Ann Arbor: Xanedu/Copley Original Works, 2005). ISBN 1-59399-201-vii.

Journalistic and pop [edit]

  • McManus, Una (1980). Not for a Meg Dollars. Impact Books. ISBN 0-914850-54-7.
  • Williams, Miriam (1999). Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years As a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult. Quill. ISBN 0-688-17012-9.
  • "30 Members of Children of God arrested" (September 2, 1993). Washington Post, pp. A05
  • "The Family unit" and Final Harvest" (June ii, 1993). Washington Post, pp. A01
  • Goodstein, Laurie (2005), "Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Kid Corruption in Cult", The New York Times, January 15, 2005, pg. A-1
  • Don Lattin: Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Border. HarperOne. ISBN 0-06-111804-4.
  • Mahoney, Mary (2020). Abnormal Normal: My Life in the Children of God ISBN 979-8-6317-4606-0

External links [edit]

Official [edit]

  • Official website
  • DavidBerg.org – Official website explaining David Brandt Berg's mission, vision and message.
  • KarenZerby.org – Karen Zerby'south official site.
  • TFICharter.com – Official Governing Documents of The Family International.
  • Children of God.com – Official history of the COG (pre-TFI).
  • NuBeat.org – a collection of free music produced by TFI.

Other [edit]

  • xFamily – Wiki detailing TFI; includes large collections of multimedia, press coverage, and internal TFI publications.
  • xFamily PubsDB – a near-complete database of all writings by David Berg and Karen Zerby.
  • exfamily.org – data, forums, links, etc. most TFI by quondam first-generation members.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International

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