Where Are We Going? A Spiritwatch Podcast

One of the chief claims of the Xenos / Dwell ministry is it's endlessly emphasized claim that genuine Christian counsel is offered through a plethora of services it offers to members and all comers. Former Xenos leader Oliver Long brings this beautiful fantasy down to earth with some homely facts: if you struggle with personal emotional and psychological challenges, you will be found out and that...

This is the first of several planned podcasts on the controversial movement known as the Community, the Gladstone Community, Gladstone Community Church and - since a critical 2016 article about them was released - the Madison Place Community Church. The old adage about being hidden in plain sight gets new life here as we start to bring our original research, aided by many former members, to expose...

One of the first survivors of the Xenos / Dwell cultism in Columbus, Ohio who we personally were able to meet and share with was a young woman by the name of Claire. Like the story of the very first individual who originally emailed us about their traumatic time in Xenos, Claire's unconscionable violation at the hands of a Xenos member while a teenage girl and how she was ostracized for it is yet...

Although all of the membership of the controversial "church" movement called Xenos / Dwell are charged to become leaders charged with the task of relentlessly growing it, only a few become the kinds of mid-range leader that Oliver Long did. He embraced the Xenos vision only to find that it's black light blinded him to the reality all around him about how much of it's advance was an orchestration o...

With the recent Daily Beast website article concerning the dark side of Xenos/Dwell, the legitimate questioning of their doings is increasingly being dismissed as the thrashing of postmodern spiritual rebels by X/D leaders. With their most recent response to the Daily Beast now on record, our guest Amy Grover stepped forward as an ex-Xenos member who could no longer stay silent. Her observations o...

Spiritwatch Ministries welcomes to our virtual studio the insight of former Xenos leader Steve Cardoza, who was a leader in the Xenos college and adult groups for 18 years until he left about 4 years ago. He brings a well informed perspective on the functioning of the cult that is unique in its probing and compelling observation and a heartfelt personal message to the Xenos culture at large. WARNI...

Our 17th episode continues our ongoing outlet for survivors of the Xenos / Dwell cult of Columbus, Ohio by welcoming Katie Reinaker to the podcast. Katie is the founder of the new critical website https://www.dwellchurchcolumbusisacult.com that provides an incredibly probing analysis of Xenos / Dwell's aberrant practices. Her journey in and out of the group is only part of our discussion here, how...

This week's episode brings Nina Lombardo, a former Xenos Christian Fellowship member, to our virtual Spiritwatch Ministries studios. Xenos' cunningly cloaked agenda of cultic micromanagement of its' members' lives is a sad reality that Nina's account brings light upon - how her young peers there were empowered to play God over her life and that of others.

Another survivor of the Remnant Fellowship cult we interviewed was Rachel, who also appears in the "Way Down" documentary about Gwen Shamblin Lara's cultic church in Tennessee. She shared more about her time there, her long running struggle with it's shaming control of her life and her ultimate break from it. Rachel's testimony is also shared at spiritwatch.org/RFtest9.htm and she fills in the gap...

Steve and Betsy Miozzi were among the first to join the Remnant Fellowship and among the first to finally leave. Their story of life within the movement was also among the first to sound the alarm about it's increasingly controlling and manipulative ways through a syndicated article in the Associated Press in 2004. They join the podcast to remember those dark days. As Steve relates: " .. (Remnant...

The third episode of ongoing testimonies from former members of the Xenos / Dwell movement in Columbus, Ohio is provided by Christa. Her sharing of her experience in Xenos is yet another litany of painfully bought perspective on the heretical and abusive pressures she suffered. She shares the good of that time, along with the bad and the plainly shagnasty ugly.

She's a former Xenos student leader that now volunteers in a group for women who have been victims of abuse in faith communities. Trauma informed, she's currently working towards being a credentialed victims advocate. She sadly acquired this unique perspective in a manner no woman should have to endure and she helps explain how Xenos is to thank for this ..

As we mentioned in our last podcast, we will be featuring interviews with former members of the heretical Xenos / Dwell church movement. Others will be forthcoming. This week, we feature the testimony of Shawna, an eyewitness to the outrages of a church culture supposedly based on "love."

The Columbus, Ohio based megachurch Xenos Christian Fellowship, having changed it's name to the Dwell Community Church states on its website that it is “ connecting biblical truth to modern life in real community. ” Sadly, we’ve discovered this lofty assertion to be little more than marketing verbiage that seeks to deflect from public view what the cold reality actually is. After our personal inve...

In his sharing today, Chris Elkins helps us recognize what that X factor is which cultists are so able to engage within us all and we trust you’ll get some sobering reflection here that we believe will help you understand how cults truly are indeed the result of a problem, an uncomfortably intimate issue within us all.

Our first special guest and interview on the podcast is of Mina Munoz, a survivor of the Remnant Fellowship whose testimony we will be shortly publishing. Her frank, no-holds barred sharing of her time within the cult that finally ended in 2010 will open eyes and we hope hearts as well. She has a special message for her Remnant family she left behind. WARNING: Explicit adult language she shares he...

As a great final summary of our warnings about cultic mind control, one of Spiritwatch Ministries' associates Mike Spencer will provide for us his own teaching on it's broad and deceptive power. You won't want to miss this.

The conclusion from our last episode providing long needed light upon how cults control people so terribly and completely through the power of cultic mind control where no thought is safe and the unforgiveable sin is thinking independently. .

Cultism is more than doctrine. See how cultism's deceptive power doesn't rely on twisted teaching alone, but their ability to change the behavior of their masses by the change of their thoughts through cultic mind control.

The Bible is abundantly clear how cult leaders attract and ensnare disciples for their own followings and our podcast explores this and some illustrations of how deception works in this context.

We live in a day in which the deceptive is so readily accepted as the reliable and in today’s podcast we want to explore how readily deception uses the spiritual as a back door into the hearts and minds of millions worldwide.

The cultic movement calling itself the Remnant Fellowship as founded by the now late Gwen Shamblin Lara is currently in it's own spiral downward into chaos. The current state of the cult will be our focus in this edition of our podcast. We apologize for the delay in our scheduling for this.

We take heed that no man deceive you, A look back at the history of this ministry, so you may know who we are, what we stand for and just where WE are going.

It's not a bad time now to be a Jeremiah crying aloud about the truth of our darkening world when it's deepening slumber has become a coma. A final look into the warnings of Jesus Christ found in Matthew 24 will be our brief focus. Thanks for surfing back in!

In 1979, disco was dying even as the Sony Walkman had just been released. The rise of radical Islam was about to start in Iran during the U.S. Hostage Crisis. But as dated as all of that is, the timeless truths of Scripture Dr. Walter Martin will memorably share here begin with his equally eternal reflection of the kinds of students there are in the world. Recorded live in 1979 at Lee College. Thi...