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- Formed in April 1983, the group were originally known as SOUTHERN Death Cult, then Death Cult and finally, The Cult. They featured vocalist Ian Astbury, guitarist Billy Duffy, bassist Jamie Stewart and drummer Ray "Mondo" Taylor-Smith.
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Feb 11, 2024 · Gwen was Gwen Shamblin, the controversial Christian diet guru who created her own church, the Remnant Fellowship, in affluent Brentwood, Tennessee — a church that some now consider to be...
- phil.williams@newschannel5.com
- Newschannel 5 Chief Investigative Reporter
Feb 6, 2023 · The documentary tells of two Atlanta members, Joseph and Sonya Smith, who were convicted in 2007 of the 2003 beating death of their 8-year-old son Josef and are currently serving life sentences in ...
- Assistant Content Strategy Editor
- 3 min
Sep 30, 2021 · The Remnant Fellowship had around 1,500 members in 150 worldwide congregations when Gwen Shamblin Lara died, according to the Tennessean. The Remnant Fellowship's website says the church has 120 leaders who serve as deacons, shepherds, ministry leaders, and ministry assistants.
- Amy Beeman
- Glue Sticks as Punishment Device
- The Remnant Fellowship Is Investigated
- Previous Report of Abuse
- Pressure on Remnant Members
- Another Death
The boy’s death cast a spotlight on the teachings of the church—often described as a cult—regarding discipline. The use of long glue sticks received particular attention by law enforcement and the media. Josef’s mother told police in Cobb County, Georgia that she hit Josef with a “2- or 3-foot-long whiplike glue stick,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitu...
After Josef’s death, Remnant Fellowship was investigated by law enforcement in Georgia and Tennessee; other than the Smiths, no church members were charged in relation to the case. Police who testified during the Smiths’ trial in 2007 “said they could not find a link between the boy’s death and the church’s teachings about punishment,” NBC News rep...
Six months before Josef died, 14-year-old Laura Boone, who worked as a babysitter, made a report of child abuse about Josef, without knowing his name. She found out it was him when she saw his face on TV during a news report of his death, she tells A&E True Crime. Boone, whose family is not part of Remnant Fellowship, says she started babysitting f...
Former member Megan Cox tells A&E True Crimethat Remnant Fellowship children were expected to behave perfectly at all times. “We were taught to absolutely and unequivocally submit, and if we didn’t submit, there were ramifications,” she says. She and her siblings didn’t suffer corporal punishment, but “it was a lot of verbal, emotional and mental m...
Eleven weeks before Josef’s death, another Smith child, 17-month-old Milek, also died. Schweizer says he first met Josef when he visited the Smiths’ home as part of that investigation. Milek’s cause of death would be listed as pneumonia, local media initially reported, but later accounts blamed sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. “[Josef] sat at...
Apr 28, 2022 · The new installments of the documentary series delve into the death of Christian health guru Gwen Shamblin Lara who founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in 1999. Shamblin Lara, her husband Joe ...
- Molli Mitchell
Sep 30, 2021 · But isolation has long been the practice of the Brentwood, Tennessee church, a controversial collective former members and experts now claim is a cult hiding in plain sight.
May 29, 2022 · Amanda Pérez Pintado. USA TODAY. A year has passed since Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, lost several leaders in a plane crash. And questions still remain regarding the...
