Holbrook Mohr is a member of The Associated Press national investigative team. Over 14 years for the AP, he has covered devastating natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the wasteful government spending that followed, high-profile judicial bribery schemes and mass shootings. He was awarded the 2014 Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting for exposing the failings of child protective agencies in the deaths of hundreds of abused and neglected children.
In 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a promise that she could turn their lives around. In the years since, Whaley’s following has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continents. In their eyes she’s a prophet. And to disobey her means eternal damnation. The control Whaley exerts is absolute: she decides what her followers study, where they work, whom they can marry --- even when they can have sex. Based on hundreds of interviews, secretly recorded conversations and thousands of pages of documents, BROKEN FAITH is a terrifying portrait of life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades.
