Ewan Whyte's feature essay, <a href="https://torontolife.com/life/grenville-christian-college-boarding-school-brockville-toronto-fundamentalist-cult/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘The Cult That Raised Me’</a> – about the United States based Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College – includes the introduction, “When I was 11, my parents sent me to Grenville Christian College, a prestigious Anglican boarding school in Brockville. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult that brainwashed, abused and terrorized students. For decades, the school tried to intimidate us into silence. It didn’t work.”Ewan Whyte is a writer, art and cultural critic. He has written for the Globe & Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. He is the author of Desire Lines: Essays on Art Poetry & Culture, Shifting Paradigms: Essays on Art and Culture and Entrainment, a book of poetry, and a translation of the rude ancient Roman poet Catullus. His feature essay <a href="https://torontolife.com/life/grenville-christian-college-boarding-school-brockville-toronto-fundamentalist-cult/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">'The Cult that Raised Me'</a> was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Ewan's upcoming book, <a href="https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/authors-all/ewan-whyte" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mothers of Invention: Essays on the Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College</a>, will be released in June and is available for preorder now. In advance of its release, Ewan shared some of his research and thoughts about these two organisations.You can support us on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=7859667" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. Sarah Steel's debut book Do As I Say is <a href="https://bit.ly/3dEBQuF" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">available on audiobook now</a>.Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/authors-all/ewan-whyte" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mothers of Invention: Essays on the Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College</a> — by Ewan Whyte, Wolsak & Wynn, 2025</li><li><a href="https://torontolife.com/life/grenville-christian-college-boarding-school-brockville-toronto-fundamentalist-cult/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Cult That Raised Me</a> — by Ewan Whyte, Toronto Life, 5 January 2021</li><li><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/community-of-jesus-orleans-cape-cod-massachusetts-abuse-allegations-wbz-tv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I-Team: Former Members Of Cape Religious Group Allege Emotional Abuse, 'People Don't Realize The Mind Control'</a> — WBZ News, 4 November 2021</li><li><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68455401" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aaron Bushnell: Friends struggle to comprehend US airman's Gaza protest death</a> — by Kayla Epstein & Angelica Casas, BBC News, 3 March 2024</li></ul> Subscribe and support the production of this independent podcast, and you can access early + ad-free episodes at <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="https://plus.acast.com/s/lets-talk-about-sects">https://plus.acast.com/s/lets-talk-about-sects</a>.

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