History
Who Was Steve Cooper, the Author of Go Ye: The Arizona Story?
Steve Cooper was the San Bernardino reporter who converted in 1974 and wrote Go Ye: The Arizona Story, The Fellowship’s earliest book-length history.
July 17, 2026
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History
Who From Go Ye: The Arizona Story Stayed, and Who Left?
Of the 36 people named in Go Ye: The Arizona Story, The Fellowship’s own 1982 history, 23 left, five stayed, and eight are unconfirmed. The full roster.
July 17, 2026
History
“The Riskier Proposition”: Is Go Ye: The Arizona Story Worth Reading?
A Go Ye: The Arizona Story review: the 1982 book names its own risk, one man’s experience, concedes the cultism charge, and proceeds anyway.
July 17, 2026
Documented Cases
Did Santa Whip Jesus in a Potter’s House Christmas Parade?
The Potter’s House Christmas parade where Santa whipped a bloodied Jesus is confirmed by the church’s own 1985 history. The record, and what’s unresolved.
July 16, 2026
History
What Is The Potter’s House in Prescott, Arizona?
The Potter’s House Prescott is the mother church of Christian Fellowship Ministries: its founding, Wayman Mitchell, the money trail, and the local record.
July 15, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
What Does The Potter’s House Believe?
What does The Potter’s House believe? On paper, standard Pentecostal doctrine. In practice, unwritten rules its statement of faith never mentions.
July 15, 2026
Trauma & Recovery
Is There a Potter’s House Reddit Community for Former Members?
The Potter’s House Reddit community, r/PottersHouseCult, lets former members of CFM churches discuss their experiences without using their real names.
July 15, 2026
Testimonies
The Potter’s House: Reviews by Former Members
The Potter’s House reviews by former members agree across four decades and three continents: total pastoral control, broken families, and a costly exit.
July 15, 2026
Understanding Cults
The Definition of a Cult: History and a Sharper Test
There is no single agreed definition of a cult. This traces the word from worship to warning, sets out how experts and dictionaries define it, and offers a test whose one job is to separate an actual cult from a political base or a fandom.
July 10, 2026
Understanding Cults
High-Control Group vs Cult: Why This Site Still Says Cult
Cult researchers are moving to high-control group and coercive control. The reasons are real. But for warning people before they walk in, the blunt word cult still does work the softer terms cannot.
July 10, 2026
Biblical Critique
Private Interpretation of Scripture: What 2 Peter 1:20 Settles
The dismissal that my case against The Fellowship is only interpretation is itself a theological claim. 2 Peter 1:20-21 tests it, grounds meaning in God, and binds the pastor as much as the reader.
July 10, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
The Potter’s House Contracts: Control on Paper
The Potter’s House contracts, from Arizona to Australia to Zwolle, show central control behind a public claim of loose, autonomous, unaffiliated churches.
July 4, 2026