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Personal Accounts

A collection of first-hand accounts on surviving abuse, leaving the work, and exiting the fellowship. 

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Emotional Triggers

Emotional triggers, also called mental health triggers or psychological triggers, are things (e.g. memories, objects, people) that spark intense negative emotions. This change in emotions can be abrupt, and in most cases it will feel more severe than what the trigger would logically call for.

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Englishbee, Phillip

October 7, 2026

Why I left Greetings, fellow survivors. My name is Phillip Englishbee, the youngest of five children of Paul Englishbee (deceased) and Roberta Baker Fagan (formerly…

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Bewa, Jean-Paul T.

September 13, 2026

Our neighbors… here in Bénin and Togo We are currently visiting Togo and Benin (West Africa) with our boys this month [July 2026] … my…

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Sumner, Will – God is still speaking

September 13, 2026

Our family was involved in the 2×2 church for 5 generations.  We had Wednesday night and union meetings in our house for many years until…

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Meyer, Marg (Magowan)

September 13, 2026

I was born and raised…kinda.  My dad took Mom and our family to meetings but never professed himself until he and I stood to our feet…

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Book Review: “The Fifth Perspective by Moani Lewis”

August 31, 2026

Moani Lewis writes with conviction and transparency regarding her experiences of being raised in the religion. The book begins with a letter to the reader…

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This post is in response to the recent ‘red box’ for Stuart Catto, Scotland.

August 19, 2026

Trigger Warning: SA

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2×2 Video Connections

July 1, 2026

Part 1: The Fixer Dale Shultz has spent decades as one of the most influential overseers in the 2×2 church. Again and again, when abuse…

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Remembering Our Sister, Katie Keim

May 25, 2026

Some stories should never have to be told. Not because they are unimportant. But because no human being should ever have to live them. Last…

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Mandt, Crystal (Stiles)

May 22, 2026

I will begin with my being born a “Baldwin Baby”—given up for adoption by a Professing mother through a Professing Doctor in Springfield, Oregon in…

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Abused by my Father & Others

March 30, 2026

Today is my father’s birthday. It’s been three years since a chain of events started that I could’ve never imagined. I received a return call…

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Thoughts On Leaving

February 4, 2026

Hello! I have been on here reading for quite some time. I’ve commented a few times, but I’m just not one to stir things up…

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Reimer, Iris

January 9, 2026

TRIGGER WARNING – CSA As I heal, part of me fears that what I went through will start to feel less important to others. If…

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Starting Over

December 9, 2025

By Sheralee Jensen https://www.bridgesandbalm.org/post/starting-over When I was seventeen and living with my parents, having no savings, car, or job was normal. Finding myself in the…

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Unmoored

November 8, 2025

We are sharing the creative work of Rhonda Nichols. This poem reflects the deep grief of someone who has sacrificed everything for a spiritual sisterhood,…

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Leaving the Work

August 17, 2025

This is the third in a series of blog posts designed to help workers moving back into civilian life. The first post in this series…

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What You Haven’t Seen: The Hidden Suffering Within the Ministry

July 31, 2025

Hidden Scars — Stories from the Worker World “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” – John 1:5 Dear…

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Gray, Dale (Eddins)

July 3, 2025

I am one of two—a twin, born into poverty, raised in the 2×2 religion, and shaped by an absence that echoed louder than words: I…

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Proof of international movement of workers with allegations, admissions of child sex abuse, and extreme spiritual abuse

May 19, 2025

In 2012, Leroy Lerwick wrote a letter to a survivor and her family, advocating for Johan Marais’ return to the work in South America. He…

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Thank You For Sharing The Truth!

May 11, 2025

Ugh! I’m just over here ugly crying. I finally had a chance to finish part 8. That song at the end just did me in!…

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Request for Removal of Overseer Meeting Notes

April 23, 2025

WINGS for Truth received a request “to remove the transcript” relating to the recently published informal notes of an overseer meeting held in March 2025….

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Paul Abenroth

April 18, 2025

Quotes of Paul Abenroth A few months later it was either Charles Wells or Everett Swanson who told me that some while before Jack Carroll…

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