Author Ben Appel found that he didn’t need to live in a religious commune to experience cult dynamics. He only needed to go to college.
Appel grew up in the Lamb of God, a patriarchal Christian covenant community. As he recounts in his newly released memoir, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic, members “pledge[d] fealty to a small group of self-appointed leaders,” men served as “coordinators,” women as “handmaids” (yes, that is what they were called), and wives were required to obey their “husband-masters.”
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