Month: April 2008
Tucked away in the shadow of fortress-like mountains of southeast British Columbia, the town of Bountiful is home to a branch of the polygamous, US-based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) cult.
Winston Blackmore was bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Canada until Warren Jeffs muscled him and others out of the way to become prophet in September 2002. Jeffs then excommunicated Blackmore, splitting the community of Bountiful nearly in half -- about 700 people continue to follow Blackmore, while about 500 follow Jeffs.
The Bountiful case has wide ramifications for Canadian law: If British Columbia charges either or both of Bountiful's leaders, Winston Blackmore and Jim Oler, with the criminal offence of practising polygamy and loses, it opens the door for the free practise of plural marriage in the guise of religion. If B.C. loses, it could even open the door to other repugnant practices, such as female genital mutilation. Certainly, Muslim groups are anxiously watching to see what happens.
Wearing heavy pastel-colored dresses buttoned up to the neck and reaching down to the ground, their hair pinned up into tight, tall waves, the women of the FLDS sect look as if they had stepped out of another century. What are the reasons behind their odd style of dress?
Fresh Fire Ministries is headed by Todd Bentley, a Canadian preacher with a 'Toronto Blessing' type ministry.
A list of polygamous sects -- most of them offshoots of the Mormon Church.
Flora Jessop is a former member -- and current critic -- of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).
Research resources on Flora Jessop.
The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is a movement which asserts that God is restoring the lost offices of church governance, namely the offices of Prophet and Apostle.
Research resources on the New Apostolic Reformation, a cultic movement in the Christian Church that teaches the restoration of the offices of prophets and apostles.
Summum, a religion founded in 1975 in Utah, USA, is based on gnosticism.
According to Summum, Moses received two sets of tablets. Before the Commandments, church doctrine says, he was given the "seven aphorisms" of a higher law. The Summum website says those relate to psychokinesis (the power of the mind to control objects); correspondence; vibration; opposition; rhythm; cause and effect; and gender.
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