A 1999 testimony describes being disfellowshipped and branded a “witch” after an affair with a pastor who faced no lasting consequence, and the double standard it reveals in how the Potter’s House disciplines sexual sin.
A rare 1999 testimony written by a member still inside the Potter’s House, weighing whether to leave, asking why God didn’t seem to be moving there, and finding freedom in other former members’ stories.
In 1999, Santa Fe police pepper-sprayed Potter’s House street preachers at Zozobra, injuring a twelve-year-old boy, a blind man, and two jail guards. A genuinely two-sided confrontation, examined.
A 1999 testimony describes growing up in Potter’s House Albuquerque believing God’s love was conditional on performance, and the slow recovery of a faith based on grace rather than coercion.
A 1998 letter from a Praise Chapel pastor’s wife corrects the record on her fellowship’s ties to the Potter’s House, and describes a tithing dispute that ended with Wayman Mitchell declaring an entire sister fellowship “the enemy.”
An Australian ex-member’s 1998 testimony describes the harassment that followed leaving the Potter’s House, the pull to return to a church that had hurt her, and the slow work of rebuilding a life afterward.
After eleven devoted years, a Door member who asked to leave was told, “whatever you have to do, do it quickly,” and likened to Judas. A 1998 testimony, and what the comparison gets wrong.
A companion to the Cape Cod Times’ 1995 series traces Wayman Mitchell’s own biography, the pyramid of authority beneath him, the discipleship process that staffs it, and Victory Chapel’s flyer campaign against the newspaper itself.
In 1993 Charisma asked Wayman Mitchell to answer the authoritarianism charge. His deflection, three pastors’ departures, and Harold Warner’s rare admission of elitism, in the article that later reporting would echo for decades.
Four former Christian Fellowship pastors, some with decades inside, described Victory Chapel Cape Cod to the Cape Cod Times in 1995: cursing rituals, burned shunning letters, and a founder who said preachers proclaim rather than dialogue.
In 1992, Mill Avenue street preachers from The Door were briefly mistaken for Rodney King protesters, then cited for disorderly conduct. The First Amendment fight that followed, and what it reveals about a captive-audience strategy.
In 1992 a Potter’s House congregation in Seattle staged a bloody mock crucifixion at a Norwegian Constitution Day parade, drawing over 50 complaints. The Seattle Times report, and why the same tactic traveled from Arizona intact.
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