Time Magazine has a new article up about influential people in art, and Amy Sherald, a former WCG member, is named as one of them. We featured her here in an article on July 19, 2019.
Successful artists are the product of their gifts, but as Sherald proves, they are also products of what they lacked. Sherald grew up in a home that followed the teachings of the Worldwide Church of God, which did not celebrate, among other things, birthdays, Halloween, movies, most dancing, and TV. Her home kept a Sabbath on Saturdays. Not that Sherald minded. “For me as a child who was self-conscious and introverted, I would choose to stay in and draw rather than go outside,” she says. “It was like a safe way to play that was not with other people.” Her father, a dentist, was diagnosed with Parkinson's when she was 7. She would often just sit with him. “When you have a parent that doesn't communicate well and they're also going through something they want to hide from you, it kind of opens up another way of learning about emotion and communication.”
Vogue Magazine article
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Interesting. What it shows us, everyone of us , is that there is life after the Armstrong movement. And many have gone on to live successful lives. And have that life more abundantly that Jesus said we could have, that many didn’t find in wwcog. We were burdened with much but His yoke is light and easy. Good post and reminder of what can be had free of the burdens laid upon us. We were well meaning, many of us, but many of us are delighted to be free from this caustic movement. Cheers.
Interesting. What it shows us, everyone of us , is that there is life after the Armstrong movement. And many have gone on to live successful lives. And have that life more abundantly that Jesus said we could have, that many didn’t find in wwcog. We were burdened with much but His yoke is light and easy. Good post and reminder of what can be had free of the burdens laid upon us. We were well meaning, many of us, but many of us are delighted to be free from this caustic movement. Cheers.
Amy attended a private Catholic school and her father was a wealthy Dentist. WCG is not mentioned in various news articles about her life.
I knew "Doc" Amos Sherald (as the Columbus, GA WCG called him). He was given roles in services as his condition allowed, such as leading prayers from his chair. (His wife - not sure if she's still alive - is a graceful woman.)
But it annoyed me years later when Pastor Bruce Gore made him the target of jokes during sermons - calling him "the late Doc Sherald" because he had trouble arriving on time.
You move forward like this woman. You take the positives that you can out of any organization, and live the best life that you can afterward.
But many who claim to have left have not. They remain to sabotage.
It's not easy to if you are of a certain age and they feel they have given their heart to a splinter organization. Being baptized, attending the weekly sabbaths and annual holy days, reading all that literature for so many years. It's not easy if you're stubborn or have a position. For some it may be good to stay for a social thing or a club. But the are and will be sabotaged. Some of them even like it. I didn't like the abuse.
“…did not celebrate… most dancing and TV”?
Did the writer just pull out typical fundamentalist religiosity? There were standards, of course. Maybe her family was just strict and she didn’t appreciate the distinction
Are you their spokesperson ?
They remain because they excel and delight in deceit. They remain because they love to hate and at heart are bullies. They remain in COG to commit henius sins and to stir up mischief. They remain because they are bitter and exceedingly self-righteous. They remain to target all ages. They remain for all reasons of negativity and manipulation.
For to leave would be the first honest thing they've done in decades, but honesty is not found in them. They would lose their ability to bully without accountability and why would they walk away from that.
They stay because they desire to commit sexual immorality and pollute the Feast of Tabernacles with their sins. As did the Israelite men with the Moabite women in Numbers 25, with the well known story of Phineas, the grandson of Aaron.
No I am not their spokesperson. You are correct, I stand corrected.
I don't believe there are substantial numbers of people who have remained in the ACOGs to sabotage them. To me, that is just as ludicrous a statement as the one about elections being stolen.
But, above all things, I'm open minded. If you can provide the identities of these people and prove that they have remained in .Armstrongism to sabotage, I would really like to send them donations to help support their efforts.
I'm in favor of the total abolishment of the toxic faith known as Armstrongism. So, if there are people working towards that goal remaining within the system, we ought to salute them. Seriously, I don't believe we need worry. The movement has been gradually self-destructing for decades now.
And here I was thinking that it was so refreshing that all the COGlodytes are pursuing continuing indoctrination at their Feasts, and not raising their usual detractions or trashing someone who left their fold and became legitimately respect-worthy. One would hope that there are no longer designated "Mothers' Rooms" at these feasts for the beating of children, but, I digress!
American citizens have a right or freedom to worship how they want, whether it's catholicism, protestantism, armstrongism.. Correct though, there is no need to worry, as the decades go on it weakens,. The issue is/are the boomers (not to discriminate) but they are the oldest group of people on earth now, and those boomers within Armstrongism can't change, and they have the strongest hold on the religion (they remember the good old days the most). So life science will come in to play. People on the outside don't have to do a thing but sound the needed alarm. Also when you have the likes of Pack, Bob, Kitchen and Flurry around, they seem to make the blogs job the that much easier. The other groups do too.
5:44 PM Saturday – True, but Armstrongism has crossed that line Scientology did, and become its own religion. It won’t pass until the night.
My little prediction – two forms emerge:
Orthodox, which you’re talking about, will include a great deal of Armstrong worship, “True Church,” ‘with debates over a few very un-PC issues. It will be people like Sammy Kitchen and scattered individuals only coming down from the hills for services at Tabernacles. It will Pmrobably start to develop like the Shakers.
Reformed will be something more like CGI – having rejected the Armstrongs as individuals, but holding to the theological framework. “True church“ will be a dividing line within, but on both sides there will be much more mainstream civic engagement.
12:35 Probably right on your prediction!
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