The 'prophet' who founded a sect called The Message hailed this Arizona trailer park as an ideal community in the 1960s.

The night before her wedding, Daulton said Mercier’s followers ... He said there’s no justification for them in The Bible or in Branham’s more than 1,200 sermons. LaFontaine noted that ...

Branham preached that the world would be “blowed (sic) to bits” by atomic bombs and that gentiles or non-believers would be ...

Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said that letting Oklahoma public school educators teach the Bible is a “slippery slope” if the teachers “may not be believers” themselves. Mullin, who sits on ...

Joseph Branham said his goal is to continue his father’s work of connecting people with the Bible “exactly as ... have money,” said former Message believer and Arizona resident Fumiko ...

Although William Branham died in 1965, millions of people worldwide still follow his teachings. The sect has expanded, in ...

Naomi Wright grew up in what she described as a polygamous cult near Buffalo, New York. Her father was the leader. Wright’s ...