Hello! I’m Luca, a former WMSCOG member, and this website is the home for never again, my story about spending a decade in the World Mission Society Church of God with untreated mental illness.
Each chapter contains a written narrative and an audio file that you can also listen to if you prefer. Click here for a full listing of chapters. You can also listen through the entire story in chronological order using this site’s audio player or on Spotify.
This story is incomplete and continuously updating. If you want to be in the loop, follow me on Instagram to read the stories as soon as they post.
Don’t know where to start? How about at the beginning:
chapter one: the hook
Never again will I let my freedom be stolen from me.
Never again will I betray my values.
Never again will I lose my sense of self.
latest chapters
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62. new internet mission
When we first started the ten-website internet mission, we were told to pick names connected to negative rumors about the church.
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61. something like peace
Thomas and I had always had bad fights after getting married, but things changed after I had my daughter.
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60. toxic positivity
There was a sermon in the WMSCOG about how the “flag of joy” was a sign that God was with us. In other words, negative feelings meant God was not with us.
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58. list of sins
On the Day of Atonement, church leaders would read out a list of 82 sins that we were supposed to repent for. Following are a few of the “sins” on the list: