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		<title>Submerged Spirit: Bay Area writer tells tale of life to so-called cult</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#8217;t think a cult would advertise in the classifieds.
But there it was. In black and white. Buried in the pages of the Classified Flea Market, a weekly East Bay publication that boasts more than 3,000 ads &#8220;for everything from antique furniture to late model automobiles.&#8221;
It was only a few inches of newsprint, really. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Member Tells of His Cult Experience and Recovery in New Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, Calif., April 19 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; According to the Jewish Board of Family and Children&#8217;s Services, approximately 180,000 Americans are actively recruited by cults each year. While the odds of succumbing to a cult are twice as great as catching chicken pox, most individuals do not realize how susceptible they truly are to recruitment.

At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consider the Children</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dads who belonged to a Berkeley psychic church fight for custody of their kids
According to his old religion, Steve Sanchez suffers from an incurable affliction. It&#8217;s called a penis.
Until a year ago, Steve Sanchez was &#8220;Rev. Steve,&#8221; a devout follower of William Duby, aka Rev. Bill, for fifteen years &#8212; more than one-third of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A High Price For Keeping Faith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-church member in battle over daughter&#8217;s future
Mason McKinley&#8217;s minister presented him with this simple test of faith: He should give up his baby daughter and never look back. The year was 1997. McKinley sat in a semicircle of devoted followers and stared at his spiritual leader.
It wasn&#8217;t the first time Rev. Bill had challenged McKinley, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye of the Believer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suicide. Sexual misconduct. Bankruptcy. Divorce. A Berkeley/ San Jose cult promises heaven&#8211; and delivers hell.
Interviewer: Are you God?
Reverend Bill: I&#8217;m not God of the universe. But I am the resident spirit here in this body.
&#8211;San Jose Mercury News, June 10, 2000

&#8216;CULT&#8221; IS A LOADED WORD. It conjures up images of the Jonestown massacre, of mass [...]]]></description>
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