Author: END-TIME HANDMAIDENS (GWEN SHAW)
Title: God's Answer to Mr. Moon
Description: Jasper, AR: End-Time Handmaidens, Inc, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Pamphlet. This is a trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The pamphlet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "In the early 1970's Mrs. Gwen Shaw (then Gwen Schmidt) founded the End-Time Handmaidens. ("Servants" was added several years later after men expressed interest in joining. ) Joel 2: 28-29 is the basis for this cult's name. At the time, she lived in Chicago. She married James v. D. Shaw, and around 1974 settled her cult in the northwest corner of Arkansas, just south of the town of Jasper. The estate is comprised of 340 acres of mostly wooded land in a valley that is labeled "The Grand Canyon of the Ozarks. ” The small amount of acreage that is cleared is occupied by 5 houses, 2 garages, a large dormitory that also houses a chapel and dining room/ kitchen, a barn, and a pasture for livestock. (Circa 1991.) This area of Arkansas is home to other cults and aberrant groups. In the early 1980s on a bridge just outside of Jasper, two members of F. O. U. (Foundation of Ubiquity) killed themselves before a crowd. They had stated that they would resurrect within three days. "The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord" is located near the Arkansas-Missouri border, and believers in the Book of Urantia are sprinkled throughout the Jasper area.". Very Good .
Keywords: Religion Cults Gwen Shaw End-time Handmaidens Moonies Unification Church Urantia Angels Religion
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Title: God's Answer to Mr. Moon
Description: Jasper, AR: End-Time Handmaidens, Inc, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Pamphlet. This is a trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The pamphlet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "In the early 1970's Mrs. Gwen Shaw (then Gwen Schmidt) founded the End-Time Handmaidens. ("Servants" was added several years later after men expressed interest in joining. ) Joel 2: 28-29 is the basis for this cult's name. At the time, she lived in Chicago. She married James v. D. Shaw, and around 1974 settled her cult in the northwest corner of Arkansas, just south of the town of Jasper. The estate is comprised of 340 acres of mostly wooded land in a valley that is labeled "The Grand Canyon of the Ozarks. ” The small amount of acreage that is cleared is occupied by 5 houses, 2 garages, a large dormitory that also houses a chapel and dining room/ kitchen, a barn, and a pasture for livestock. (Circa 1991.) This area of Arkansas is home to other cults and aberrant groups. In the early 1980s on a bridge just outside of Jasper, two members of F. O. U. (Foundation of Ubiquity) killed themselves before a crowd. They had stated that they would resurrect within three days. "The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord" is located near the Arkansas-Missouri border, and believers in the Book of Urantia are sprinkled throughout the Jasper area.". Very Good .
Keywords: Religion Cults Gwen Shaw End-time Handmaidens Moonies Unification Church Urantia Angels Religion
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 32564
- Book number: 32564
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