Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones

Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and Recommended by People, TIME, USA Today, Real Simple, Glamour, Nylon, Bustle, Purewow, Shondaland, and more!

Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment--an inspiring true story and stranger-than-fiction cult memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult.

Faith Jones was raised to be part of a religious army preparing for the End Times. Growing up on an isolated farm in Macau, she prayed for hours every day and read letters of prophecy written by her grandfather, the founder of the Children of God. Tens of thousands of members strong, the cult followers looked to Faith's grandfather as their guiding light. As such, Faith was celebrated as special and then punished doubly to remind her that she was not.

Over decades, the Children of God grew into an international organization that became notorious for its alarming sex practices and allegations of abuse and exploitation. But with indomitable grit, Faith survived, creating a world of her own--pilfering books and teaching herself high school curriculum. Finally, at age twenty-three, thirsting for knowledge and freedom, she broke away, leaving behind everything she knew to forge her own path in America.

Honest, eye-opening, uplifting, and intensely affecting, Sex Cult Nun is a must-read memoir and a complicated family story mixed with an intimate coming-of-age narrative that brings to life a hidden world that's hypnotically alien yet unexpectedly relatable.

How does a girl raised to be a soldier for God find the courage to save herself?

• An Unbelievable True Story: What it was like growing up as the granddaughter of David Brandt Berg, the controversial prophet of the notorious Children of God cult.
• Survival Against the Odds: How a young woman, denied a formal education, secretly taught herself a high school curriculum and planned her escape from an isolated farm in Macau.
• The Courage to Leave: The harrowing decision to break away at age twenty-three, leaving behind her entire family and the only world she had ever known to start over in America.
• Inside an Extremist Cult: An honest, eye-opening look at the infamous sex practices and exploitation within the Children of God, told from the inside.

Katie Clark Blakesley lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and two children. She is the past president of the Washington, D.C., Modern Quilt Guild and has received two awards for her academic writing. Her quilt work has been featured in several publications.

Lee Heinrich, a former graphic designer, has been quilting and sewing since 2008. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her husband and two daughters. Lee's quilts and other sewing projects have been featured in several magazines as well as on her blog.

Faith Jones lives in Chicago with her husband and children and has been sewing for over twenty years. Through social media, she has created an online following that generates over 200,000 page views a month on her blog. Her patterns can be found in several publications.

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ISBN 13	9780062952479
ISBN 10	0062952471
Title	Sex Cult Nun
Author	Faith Jones
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2022-11-08
Number of pages	400
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.