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Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
Children of God – Part 1
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The Children of God, later known as The Family, became notorious for their practise called “flirty fishing”. They believed in bringing up their children to have no inhibitions around sex, but the ramifications of their approach to this would echo through the generations as trauma, and result in a shocking murder-suicide committed by the very son prophesied as the Prince who would lead them through the End Times.
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Credits:
Written and hosted by Sarah Steel
Research by Sarah Steel and Haley Gray
Music by Joe Gould
Links:
- The Origins of a Movement: From "The Children of God" to "The Family International" — website archive from thefamily.org, 29 April 2009
- History — The Family International website, accessed March 2020
- The Children of God: The Inside Story — by Deborah Davis & Bill Davis, Zondervan Publications, 1984
- The Children of God — by Robert McFarland, MD, The Journal of Psychohistory, Volume 24 Issue 4, Spring 1994
- The Family in Transition: The Moral Career of a New Religious Movement — by Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd, research paper presented at CESNUR International Conference 2002
- The "RNR"! Destruction of the Super-Blob & the New Nationalisation — by David Berg, Mo Letter, January 1978
- The Pubs Purges — scanned and archived on exfamily.org, June 1991 & March 1996
- Summit ’93 Mama Jewels! — No.2, portion of newsletter by Karen Zerby written in 1992
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