Joel Crosby discusses childhood, family control, mental health, marriage, faith, and leaving The Door in this Potter’s House survivor interview.
Dennis Crosby, thirty-seven years in the Potter’s House, tells John Collins how a fellowship of friends became a controlling organization, how it split his family, and how copying the Greek New Testament by hand set him free.
Joel Crosby’s De Deur story in EO’s series Sektarisch?: 25 years inside the Zwolle church, an abuse cover-up, discipline, and the way out. In English.
The Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid Podcast gathers former Potter’s House members’ stories. Joel Crosby told his in full on it. What the show is and what he shared.
Pointer’s De Deur documentary (KRO-NCRV, 2025): 25 former members describe control and isolation in The Door. An English guide to what the film shows.
On the Cultimatum podcast, outside hosts who study cults placed The Potter’s House beside the high-control groups they know. What the episode covered.
Five years after Ruinerwold, Israel van Dorsten co-founded Vrijhartig to help governments and care workers recognize and support people leaving sects.
Context for readers outside the Netherlands on the Ruinerwold case, Israel van Dorsten, and Vrijhartig, the sect-awareness training organization he co-founded with Joel Crosby and Jan van der Winden.
Dutch press report on The Door in Leeuwarden and Groningen: a growing church, and former members who say they grew up in a cult.
In August 2023, the Leeuwarder Courant interviewed a former Door member under the pseudonym “Chris.” That was Joel Crosby, before he had gone public. This is that story, with his name on it.
Two sermons by a pastor from another church in Arizona, who preached on several cults, including
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