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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Bill and Patsy Freeman</title>
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		<title>Controversial group settles in Spokane</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some say Freemans &#8216;cult-like&#8217;
Members of a tightknit Christian group that has been trailed by controversy around the West have purchased six homes bordering Whitworth College, raising concerns on campus and in the surrounding north Spokane neighborhood.
Bill Freeman, who leads the group with his wife, Patsy, said he and the members of his church just want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freemans refuse to respond</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freeman friend’s e-mail calls college’s response ‘most shocking, vicious’
With the exception of one e-mail sent to the Whitworth administration late February, the Freemans and their followers have reacted with silence to the college’s caution about the group and articles in The Whitworthian detailing the Freeman’s history.
Freeman group member Steve Johnson and his wife Sue Johnson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Freemans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: Deborah and Steve Kirk were part of the Freeman group in the 1970s. They have lived in Spokane since 1994 and attend Opportunity Presbyterian Church in Spokane Valley. When they learned that the Freemans had moved near campus, they asked to publish their personal story and personal experience with the Freemans. The Kirks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freemans made hundreds of thousands off real estate, followers&#8217; charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freemans bought more than a million dollar’s worth of real estate when they settled in to three houses near Whitworth. Many students and administrators have wondered where they got all the money to make those purchases and why they were willing to pay nearly half a million dollars for one mid-sized house in north [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-members say Freemans created &#8216;group identity&#8217;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10373/ex-members-say-freemans-created-group-identity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In some ways, the first part of this series on the Freemans and their past only scratched the surface. Every ex-member of the Freeman group who was interviewed agreed that the couple played at least a partial role in many broken marriages and shattered churches. But a few members — mostly women who had become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A response to the Freemans</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10473/a-response-to-the-freemans</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10473/a-response-to-the-freemans#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Loop: A response to the Freemans
Bill and Patsy Freeman, along with their followers, have settled in to a corner of the Whitworth community. Their past is sketchy, to say the least, and the trail of concerns, complaints and warnings that have followed them must not be ignored.
A Christian group that has no strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Controversy next door</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10372/controversy-next-door</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freemans, followed to Spokane by a troubled past, are a concern to their former adherents and the Whitworth administration
When Bill and Patsy Freeman bought three houses adjacent to the Whitworth campus late last year, the investment was more than just a million dollars of north Spokane real estate.
It was a move to revive a 40-year-long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adherents land in LO after split</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Man claims church ruined his marriage
A group of families who moved to Lake Oswego after a breakup in their Scottsdale, Ariz., church may be considering starting a new church here.
But at least one man considers the church and its members to be an evil cult that is responsible for problems he&#8217;s experienced in his personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor:  Bill Freeman&#8217;s actions familiar</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10507/letter-to-the-editor-bill-freemans-actions-familiar</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10507/letter-to-the-editor-bill-freemans-actions-familiar#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LETTERS:  Bill Freeman&#8217;s actions familiar
It was with sadness that I read the piece on the so-called Church in Scottsdale and the Longmate family. I do not know Jim Longmate well, nor do I know what personal mistakes he might have made, but I have a keen interest in this story because I was intimately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question of faith</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10505/question-of-faith</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10505/question-of-faith#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Scottsdale father raises concerns as church group leaves en masse
Jim Longmate believes a Scottsdale church undermined his 18-year marriage and that the influences of a pastor&#8217;s wife are &#8220;spiritually abusive.&#8221;
As the courts move forward in resolving divorce and custody issues, the father of four wonders whether his wife, Jamie, and children will follow part of [...]]]></description>
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