Why couldn’t the sect’s prophet William Branham — the man Maene’s church believed spoke for God — remember whether he was an adult or child when his own father died? Why was there no ...

“The problem is the way that William Branham said that churches should be run makes things ready-made for abuse. He basically said the pastor and the pastor only should call the shots,” Bergen ...

Even if William Branham didn’t specifically advocate calling your wife the worst words in the English language.” Tipping, who was raised in Message churches in Arizona and Michigan but left ...

William Branham was a preacher who gained fame in ... Kiser, 26, of Virginia, was raised in a Message church called Faith of the Apostles in Arkansas. She said the church was “very misogynistic ...

Leaders influenced by William Branham have overseen a deadly starvation cult in Kenya in 2023 and a trailer-park commune in Arizona that abused children in the 1960s, among other atrocities.