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The Family International ( TFI) is an American new religious movement founded in 1968 by David Brandt Berg. [1] The group has gone under a number of different names since its inception, including Teens for Christ, The Children of God ( COG ), The Family of Love, or simply The Family . A British court case found the group was an authoritarian ...
David Brandt Berg (February 18, 1919 – October 1, 1994), also known as King David, Mo, Moses David, Father David, Dad, or Grandpa to followers, was the founder and leader of the cult generally known as the Children of God [1] and subsequently as The Family International. Berg's group, founded in 1968 among the counterculture youth in Southern ...
Ricky Rodriguez. Richard P. Rodriguez (born David Moses Zerby; January 25, 1975 – January 9, 2005) was an American member of a religious cult called The Family, formerly known as the Children of God (COG), who murdered one of his childhood sexual abusers, Angela M. Smith, and then died by suicide . During Rodriguez's childhood, he and his ...
Flirty Fishing. Flirty Fishing ( FFing) is a form of evangelism by sexual intimacy practised from around 1974 to 1987 by the cult Children of God, currently known as The Family International (TFI). Female members of Children of God, or "fisherwomen", would apply their sex appeal on "fish" – men from outside the cult (often, but not always ...
Karen Elva Zerby (born July 31, 1946) is the leader of The Family International, originally known as the Children of God. She is also called Maria, Mama Maria, [1] Maria David, [1] Maria Fontaine, and Queen Maria.
The Family, also known as the Santiniketan Park Association or the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian New Age group formed in the mid-1960s under the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne (born Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards; 30 December 1921 – 13 June 2019). [1] [2] The group taught a mixture of Western and Eastern religious doctrines ...
According to Epiphanius, certain women in largely- pagan Arabia syncretised indigenous beliefs with the worship of Mary and offered little cakes or bread-rolls. [4] The cakes were called collyris (Greek: κολλυρίς) and are the source of the name Collyridians. [5] Epiphanius stated that Collyridianism originated in Thrace and Scythia ...
1994. ISBN. 0-9639501-2-6. Sex, Slander, and Salvation: Investigating The Family/Children of God is a 1994 book edited by J. Gordon Melton and James R. Lewis, on the Family International. Sex, Slander, and Salvation consists of 17 chapters made up of essays and research papers revolving around the Family International religious movement.