One might want to search on Youtube for the interviews of relatives and children of Mr. Phelps, the notorious Calvinist leader of the Westbrook church in Topeka Kansas. These interviews are of family members, daughters, grandchildren, etc who are now at adulthood and who are survivors of the group. They do not go so far as the use the word “cult” in describing the dynamics of the church-life they experienced. But if you are familiar with group-think, milieu-control, thought-reform, insider-language etc, as the internationally recognized indicators of cult dynamics, you can connect the dots.
One might want to search on Youtube for the interviews of relatives and children of Mr. Phelps, the notorious Calvinist leader of the Westbrook church in Topeka Kansas. These interviews are of family members, daughters, grandchildren, etc who are now at adulthood and who are survivors of the group. They do not go so far as the use the word “cult” in describing the dynamics of the church-life they experienced. But if you are familiar with group-think, milieu-control, thought-reform, insider-language etc, as the internationally recognized indicators of cult dynamics, you can connect the dots.