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Pauldavidcooke.com Now Live!
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...
Preface to Seminole Lovelight: A Cult Memoir
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...
Book Review: The New, “Soft Totalitarianism” in the West
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...
When Billy Graham Met Winston Churchill
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...
Rembrandt’s Peace in the Storm
Dear Friends, Do we think of God being present in difficult times like these? It’s sometimes hard to do. What might it be like? Think of being in a great storm in a small boat on the sea. We look at the wind and the waves and we’re frightened. But if Jesus were in the...