Notes

Introduction

1. Rosemary Radford Ruether, “Don’t Fall for Every Spirit Lurking Under the Name of Spirituality,” National Catholic Reporter, 4 October 1988, 15.

Chapter 1: The Extremes of Toxic Faith

1. Jerry and Steve Arterburn, How Will I Tell My Mother? (Nashville: Oliver-Nelson, 1988).

2. “Baptists Kidnap Girl, Raise As Slave/Sex Toy,” Associated Press, 23 March 2000, wysiwyg://http://www.postfun.com/pfp.news.wel.

3. “Cops Chase Car, Find 20 Nude People,” and “Naked Preacher Accepts Gift of RV from God,” based on reports in the Associated Press, 20 August 1993, http://www.airspeed.com/~shydavid/ca-04.html.

4. “Reggie White’s Pastor Gets 10 Years,” based on reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 March 2000, wysiwyg://8/http://www.postfun.com/pfp.news.wel.

5. Mark Fritz, “A Mystery of the Cloth,” Los Angeles Times, 16 November 1998, Home Edition, A-1.

6. “Faith Healer Molests Children,” Reuters, 16 May 2000.

7. “Ten Commandments Claim 900+ Victims,” Reuters, 31 March 2000; “Cult Killings Exceed Jonestown Toll,” Los Angeles Times, 1 April 2000, A-14; Margaret Ramirez, “Tie to Death Cult Stuns Those Who Knew Priest,”Los Angeles Times, 8 April 2000, B-5; “55 More Victims of Uganda Doomsday Cult Discovered,” Los Angeles Times, 28 April 2000, A-15.

Chapter 4: When Religion Becomes an Addiction

1. Adrian Van Kaam, “Addiction: Counterfeit of Religious Addiction,” Studies in Formative Spirituality 8 (May 1987): 243.

2. Van Kaam, “Addiction: Counterfeit of Religious Addiction,” 246-7.

Chapter 10: Seventeen Characteristics of Healthy Faith

1. Peter L. Benson and Carolyn H. Eklin, Effective Christian Education: A National Study of Protestant Congregations (Minneapolis: a research project of Search Institute, March 1990), 10.