After a page or two Sharon took the book from me and proceeded to read it during the rest of the flight and then till midnight after we got home. She awoke and started reading over my shoulder. On a recent flight back from Tampa to Dallas I was reading the book as my wife was napping next to me. Former head of the FLDS, a man much discussed in the book, and one with whom the author had several tumultuous encounters, Warren Jeffs, is now in prison after being on the FBI’s ten most wanted list. And it gives clues about how to help reach a person locked into a cult mentality.Ĭarolyn Jessop’s former husband Merril Jessop is now the head of the FLDS group in Texas that is at Yearning for Zion ranch. It is a book about marriage and parenting.
While there is no evidence in the book that the author has come to faith in Christ, this book is well worth reading for many reasons. Sample Book Insights: 1 I was born in 1968 in Hildale, Utah, a fundamentalist Mormon. After she escaped with her children, she had to fight a tremendous battle to keep her children, and her sanity. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. The author endured lots of abuse from her husband and from her “sister wives” during her 17 years of marriage. Church of Lies by Flora Jessop (BlaisesLibrary). During this time her husband accumulated more wives. krazy4katz: Both books describe women trapped by religious dogma and how they struggle to break free. She had eight children by him over the next 17 years. The author, Carolyn Jessop, tells an amazing story of her escape, both physically and spiritually, from a polygamous cult, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (S).Īt age 18 she was given in marriage to a 50-year-old man, Merril Jessop, who already had three wives.
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