Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult
Born in 1953 near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an Irish alcoholic man and a fundamentalist Christian mother who had escaped Nazi Germany, the author joined the Children of God religious cult right out of high school, first going to a commune in upstate New York. The leader, David Berg, a California native who called himself "Moses David," issued periodic newsletters to the faithful that got progressively stranger over time. Through most of th...
