helping those wounded by wolves
The last entry was pretty traumatic for a lot of people and perhaps as a result of reading this, they were re-traumatized to spiritual abuse in your own life. One dear friend who was not in Narrowgate reached out to my wife this past week and said that reading our experience re-traumatized her to some …
Author's note: This blog was quite possibly the hardest yet to write. Of all the experiences we've had in the Narrowgate cult, this is most certainly one of the most traumatic experiences of my entire life. It's difficult to dig this up - several people who I have talked about this experience have blocked it …
Continue reading "Armageddon: Part Eleven of My Life Inside the Narrowgate Cult at Messiah College"
You build me up, you break me down until I'm falling to pieces. The price I pay to live this way, and the fantasy stays alive. (Dream Theater) There were so many teachings during this general time period. Some of them were documented in my journal, though some of them just sort of popped up …
Continue reading "Narrowgate X: Part Ten of My Life Inside the Narrowgate Cult at Messiah College"
Yesterday, our story was published in a USA Today article titled "The tongue is a fire’: Southern Baptist church fractures over secrets and spiritual abuse" by Tricia Nadolny. Some external information was referenced in the story, which I have documented below. Note that the content of this blog entry may be updated or edited as necessary. …
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This is blog post nine in this series, and since I started blogging, I have been asked numerous times "how much more is there?" I can say that there is no firm number, as I'm mainly transcribing and commenting on the journal I created back in the 90's. Some topics have led me down a …
Continue reading "Descending: Part Nine of My Life Inside the Narrowgate Cult at Messiah College"
This Narrowgate story is a tragedy in Three Acts, and at this point in the story, the curtain is officially rising for Act Two. And I will warn you - if you thought things up to this point were bizarre, I can only quote Randy Bachman of the Bachman - Turner Overdrive: "you ain't seen …
Continue reading "The Answer: Part Eight of My Life Inside the Narrowgate Cult at Messiah College"
My vocation is in the field of Information Security, and much of my education has centered on learning about systems and how they are exploited. What that means in common English is how a device has a flaw, and how that flaw can be used to force information out of it. Examples of such devices …
