by pcooke89 | Oct 27, 2025 | Halo House Homilies
Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling What a truly wonderful thing it is to be called by Jesus. Think of the places in the Gospels where it’s recorded he has called someone. When Jesus comes to the home of Mary and Martha just after their brother, Lazarus,...
by pcooke89 | Oct 17, 2022 | News
Announcing the Launch of Pauldavidcooke.com Essays, Books, Stories, Blog Posts and Podcasts At PaulDavidCooke.com are found selections from Seminole Lovelight and Other Episodes From My Life in a Cult–-the story of meeting the Children of God, how I spent nine years...
by pcooke89 | Jan 26, 2022 | Cult Memoirs
I first tried college at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Things went mostly unsuccessfully—I was on academic probation after my freshman year and then I dropped out in February of 1969, at the end of my third semester. I wandered back to Houston, my...
by pcooke89 | Jan 26, 2022 | Totalitarianism
A Review of Live Not by Lies: A Manual For Christian Dissidents, by Rod Dreher (New York: Sentinel: 2020), 240 pp. As a young Christian I was introduced to Richard Wurmbrand’s Tortured for Christ and to the reality that suffering for Christ at the hands of those who...
by pcooke89 | Jan 26, 2022 | On Hope
In his autobiography, Just As I Am, Billy Graham writes of the context of an unexpected meeting he had with Winston Churchill. Graham sailed for Britain in 1954 to begin an evangelical crusade and there were dire predictions that his effort would fail. “Billy Graham...
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