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Broken Faith by Mitch Weiss
“I can’t imagine a more important book.” (Jeff Guinn, New York Times best-selling author)
An explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose
charismatic female leader is a master of manipulation
In 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a
promise that she could turn their lives around.
In the years since, Whaley’s following has expanded to include thousands of congregants
across three continents. In their eyes, she’s a prophet. And to disobey her means eternal damnation.
The control Whaley exerts is absolute: She decides what her followers study, where they work,
whom they can marry – even when they can have sex.
Based on hundreds of interviews, secretly recorded conversations, and thousands of pages of
documents, Pulitzer Prize winner Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr’s Broken Faith is a terrifying
portrait life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who
escaped after two decades.
In 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a promise
that she could turn their lives around.
In the years since, Whaley’s following has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continents. In their eyes, she’s a prophet. And to disobey her means eternal damnation.
The control Whaley exerts is absolute: She decides what her followers study, where they work, whom they can marry – even when they can have sex.
Broken Faith by Mitch Weiss
