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Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship

Tuesday April 19, 2011

Cult Accusations Against Gwen Shamblin Lacked Malice, Court Affirms

Weight-loss guru Gwen Shamblin failed to prove that she was defamed by a critic who accused her on the Internet of running a cult, a Tennessee appeals court ruled.

Theologically, Shamblin’s Remnant Fellowship is a cult of Christianity due in part to its rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity – one of the essential doctrines of the Christian faith.

Friday December 3, 2010

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Remnant Fellowship Couple Loses Murder Appeal

Leaders of a controversial church have lost a bid to prove two of their members innocent of murder.

The ruling from the Georgia Supreme Court comes three years after Joseph and Sonya Smith were sentenced to life in prison for the beating death of their 8-year-old son. The child’s death put the focus on how the Remnant Fellowship taught its members to discipline their children.

Wednesday May 2, 2007

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Cults are not the way to lose weight

Weigh Down and Remnant seem to do more harm to those who join than good. Goals are set, and if they are not met, Newsome said members are told they will go to hell. Guilt and shame are used to keep the members in line, and eternal damnation is said to be the punishment for overeating.

Thursday March 29, 2007

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Church leading appeal of parents sentenced in child’s death

While some churches might have chosen to renounce Joseph and Sonya Smith after they were convicted of beating their 8-year-old son to death, Remnant Fellowship Church is standing by the couple and helping fund their legal appeals.

Wednesday March 28, 2007

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Couple Sentenced to Life Plus 30 Years for Beating Murder of 8-Year-Old Son

A couple was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 30 years in prison in the beating death of their 8-year-old son, a case that prompted authorities to raid the family’s Remnant Fellowship Church because it supports corporal punishment.

Saturday February 17, 2007

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Remnant Fellowship Church’s critics say verdict is a lesson

Former members of a Brentwood-based church said they hoped Friday’s conviction of Georgia couple in the death of their 8-year-old son would prompt the church and its followers to re-examine their child discipline teachings.

Friday February 16, 2007

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Parents guilty in child murder case that prompted Brentwood church raid

A suburban Atlanta couple was found guilty Friday of one count each of felony murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of their 8-year-old son, in a case that prompted authorities to raid the Tennessee-based church where the parents are members.

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Parents guilty in child murder

A jury today convicted Cobb parents Joseph and Sonya Smith on one count each of felony murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of their 8-year-old son Josef.

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

12 Jurors, 2 Parents, 1 Dead Child

What that jury of ten women and two men decides could send the parents to prison, possibly for as long as the rest of their lives, or release them to the embrace of family and friends and fellow church members who have shared their grief over the loss of their son.

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Jury Sees Videos In Trial of Joseph and Sonya Smith

One of the crimes the state of Georgia has charged the Smith’s with is using glue sticks to punish Josef. It’s a form of punishment they learned at Remnant Fellowship Church.

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Deliberations End In Church Members’ Murder Trial

Deliberations in the Marietta, Georgia murder trial of Joseph and Sonya Smith came to an end on Thursday. A verdict is expected sometime Friday.

Thursday February 15, 2007

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Closing argument forces Cobb parents to tears

As prosecutor Eleanor Dixon concluded her closing remarks Wednesday, she produced a birthday cake with eight candles. Missing, she said, were candles marking Josef Smith’s subsequent birthdays.

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Jury now weighs fate of Georgia couple charged in son’s death

The fate of two members of a Brentwood-based church accused of murdering their 8-year-old son is now in the hands of a Georgia jury.

Wednesday February 14, 2007

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Prosecutor blasts expert who claimed 8-year-old boy died from infection

A prosecutor in the trial of two parents accused of murdering their son challenged the professionalism of a key defense witness Tuesday by asking whether a dermatologist was an “advocate or a scientist.”

Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship:

Doctor raises doubts about marks on boy

The Smiths are members of the Franklin, Tenn.-based Remnant Fellowship Church, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin’s Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian diet program she created in 1986. Authorities raided the church in June 2004 as part of the investigation of Josef Smith’s death.

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