Category: Gwen Shamblin / Remnant Fellowship

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.