From a unique insider's perspective -- including interviews with
more than seven-hundred family members -- James D. Chancellor
charts The Family's course since its emergence as the most
controversial group to grow out of the Jesus People Movement in the
1960s.
Chancellor, who had extraordinary access to rare Family records,
includes the experiences of members who have remained loyal to the
community and to the founding vision of their prophet, David Brandt
Berg. In the first book of its kind -- comprising often painful
personal histories and firsthand accounts -- Chancellor focuses on
the motivation and process of becoming a Child of God, the core
beliefs of the community, the mission of the disciples, their
shifting sexual mores, and the cost of membership in terms of
internal discipline and external persecution.
Intense confrontation with the legal, religious, political, and
educational establishment marked the movement's activities from the
beginning. The young disciples heeded the call of their prophet to
flee a soon-to-be-destroyed North America. Dispersed throughout
Europe, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia, they virtually
disappeared from the American landscape. In the late 1980s, The
Family had gone through extreme theological and lifestyle changes,
including a radical reordering of their sexual ethos. The Children
of God started to come home. Now a worldwide counterculture of some
twelve thousand members, the movement's colorful history reveals a
profoundly religious group that has tested the limits of human
experience.
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