Michael Basham
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SpiritWars (https://www.spreaker.com/show/spiritwars)
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Fringe Panda (https://www.spreaker.com/show/fringe-panda)
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The Family International (https://www.thefamilyinternational.org/)
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A short article in The Encyclopaedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Family-International)
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Stephen A. Kent, "Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family", Cultic Studies Review 3 No. 2 (2004): 56-72
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Stephen A. Kent, "Lustful Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Founder, David Berg" Cultic Studies Journal 11 No.2 (1994): 135-188
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For more sympathetic studies, see:
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James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton, Sex, Slander, and Salvation, Center for Academic Publication Stanford, California (1994)
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Susan J. Palmer, "Heaven's Children: The Children of God's Second Generation" in Sex, Slander, and Salvation (1994)
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- David Berg website (https://www.davidberg.org/) [JC: This website maintains a positive view of David Berg's life and mission, and contains audio and visual materials by the man himself. However, it does admit that he retracted his "more radical theological speculations regarding sexuality" in the late 1980s, which writings were then officially renounced by The Family "and removed from circulation." (page accessed 11 May 2019)]
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xfamily.org - Disclaimers:
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(1) Before visiting the xfamily websites and searching for the documents listed below, please be advised that some of the material is sexually explicit, offensive and promotive of illegal acts. TMR references this material for documentation purposes only.
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(2) As stated in the interview itself, TMR cannot verify that any of the documents listed below are genuine.
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"The Devil Hates Sex! - But God Loves It!" attributed to "Father David", 20 May 1980 (DFO #999)
- "Pre-Release of "Who Said They're Dead?"" via pubs.xfamily.org, page 62, items 3059, 3060 and 3061
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Works by GK Chesterton via Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/80)
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Anthony A. Hoekema, The Four Major Cults, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (1963)
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Millar J. Erickson, Christian Theology, Baker (2013)
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TMR 080 : Dr. Stanley Monteith : A Life Researching Behind the Curtain
- "Why Moammar Gadhafi Was So Strange", LiveScience.com (2011) [JC: I include this because it makes mention of some connection between Gaddafi and David Brandt Berg.]
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