Snapping Out of It

Leandra Hays shares her experiences being born into The Living Word Fellowship where overwhelming and unwelcome responsibilities were heaped on her from a bizarrely young age, up through adulthood where she was being groomed to be a part of "Marilyn's Army".

Steven Caples grew up in the Living Word Fellowship Cult and, although he didn't exactly intend to "blow out", he found himself on the outside after having been in an unapproved/"un-submitted" relationship and found himself cut off from the community where he grew up. He talks about trying to find that same sense of community on the outside and trying to learn how to live without the guidance of "shepards".

Jeremiah Gruenberg draws on both his background as an academic, with a Masters in Divinity and a PHD in Theology, and his personal experience in the The Living Word Fellowship to perform a post-mortem on the movement's roots, what went wrong with the movement, and why.

Charlie Hajek Interviews Mike White on his experiences growing up in The Living Word Fellowship in LA and moving to Hawaii to join "The Boney Crew". Mike shares, step by step, the events that made him start to have doubts over the years. He also learns from Charlie during the interview that one of the cult leaders in LA, while posing as friendly, had been publicly dragging Mike's Reputation through the mud in his hometown for years.

Mike Interviews Charlie about his life in The Living Word Cult. Charlie shares some interesting coping mechanisms he developed for getting by in that environment.