Steve Schoner spent ten years in The Potter’s House, then picketed it and was sued. Court records, an IRS lien, and a 2008 India case tell the story he archived.
A 1988 Christian Research Institute report traces Wayman Mitchell’s break from Foursquare, his debt to William Branham, and the Geraldo Rivera segment that first brought exit counselor Rick Ross’s allegations to national attention.
Behind the Door, a late-1980s Tucson TV series, took cameras inside The Potter’s House to weigh charges of mind control, shunning, and a rape cover-up against the church’s denials. The compiled documentary, with analysis.
Read together, the Rick Ross archive is a profile of who The Fellowship recruited: the young, the addicted, the cast-out. Reaching the broken is not the sin.
In 1989 CBS ’48 Hours’ filmed the Potter’s House deprogramming of a 14-year-old boy in Anchorage. The method was fraught. What it was responding to was worse.
In 1989 Potter’s House Pathfinders advertised a boxing night at NAU. The church’s name was nowhere on it. What students got instead was an altar call.
In 1988 the Arizona Daily Sun examined the Potter’s House cult allegations in Flagstaff. The church denied them. Its own recorded sermons did not.
In 1987 a gunman fired into a Bible conference at The Door Christian Fellowship in Tucson. The crime is not the revealing part. The response is.
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