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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hijacking the mind part 1
In his book, Combating Cult Mind Control, Steven Hassan outlines the three steps to gaining control of the mind as derived from Kurt Lewin’s work and originally described in Edgar Schein’s book, Coercive Persuasion.
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spiritual babies part 2
As mentioned in the previous post, the WMSCOG compares newly baptized members to babies, and continues to infantilize members throughout their church life. This is a dynamic common in relationships with narcissistic abusers.
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spiritual babies part 1
The WMSCOG had a number of metaphors for the development path expected of members in the church. One compared newly baptized members to spiritual newborn babies.
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choosing death
My mindset right after leaving the cult was strange. I still didn’t have the courage to go online and look at all the critique of the church, nor did I have any interest in delving into the doctrine and deciding for myself whether each point was properly supported or not.