1. About the COBU Essays.
These are papers and letters I wrote while I was in the Church of Bible Understanding. They were attempts to write down what was going on here, or to explain to others about it. I’ve also included some things I wrote after leaving.
You can click on any of the links in the right column to read the Essays.
Some of the essays were in rough draft form. I’ve edited them to make them more readable.
“My Exit Statement” was a paper I wrote and passed around to COBU members on August 15, 1993. It was an attempt to explain what my dilemma was. I was been met with a wall of resistance when I tried to talk to anyone. (They only asked me, rhetorically, “What spirit are you speaking in?” And they let me know that “My own sin is my basic problem, not the other bad guys.” This meant two things. If I were in God’s spirit, I would not say these things nor have these objections, because this way of life was from God and if you disagreed with it, or did not follow it, you were in rebellion against God. Also, my problem was sin, not what anyone else was doing, no matter how false corrupt and deceitful (such as the leader, Stewart Traill’s actions).
My page that has my diaries from when I lived in COBU is here:
