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Chapters: Living Enrichment Center, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (Portland, Oregon), Salem First United Methodist Church, West Union Baptist Church, Calvary Lutheran Church and Parsonage (Silverton, Oregon), East Hill Church, Beaverton Foursquare Church, New Thought Ministries of Oregon, Free Methodist Church (Dayton, Oregon), Trinity Episcopal Church (Bend, Oregon), Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (Portland, Oregon),. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Living Enrichment Center, often referred to as LEC, was a New Thought megachurch and retreat center in the U.S. state of Oregon. Originally founded in the Scholls, Oregon farmhouse of senior minister Mary Manin Morrissey in the mid-1970s, the church grew so exponentially that it moved to a 94,500 square foot (8,800 m²) building on a forested area of 95 acres (384,000 m²) in Wilsonville in 1992. Over the course of its existence, the congregation grew from less than a dozen to an estimated 4,000 making it the biggest New Thought church in the state. Living Enrichment Center also maintained an in-house bookstore, retreat center, cafe, kindergarten and elementary school, and an outreach television ministry. Living Enrichment Center closed in 2004 as a result of a $10.7 million financial scandal. Mary Manin Morrissey's husband Edward Morrissey pled guilty to money laundering and using church money for the personal expenses of himself and his wife. He was sentenced to two years in federal prison. He was released in early 2007. Living Enrichment Center transitioned into New Thought Center for Spiritual Living. Aerial view of Living Enrichment Center's facilities and grounds in Wilsonville"The dream called Living Enrichment Center began in 1974 when I graduated from divinity school in Arizona," Mary Manin...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2157118 ... Read more

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Title: Bell tolls for Dexter church.(Oregon Life)(A community celebrates a 100th anniversary with a temporary museum, a special service and lots of memories)
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Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: July 12, 2009
Publisher: The Register Guard
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This is a story that has the elements often found in modern novels - sex, mass insanity, the ddownfall of prominent families, murder, and sensational court trials.

But this story is all true... and it happened a century ago.

Corvallis, Oregon leaders weren't terribly impressed with the Salvation Army dropout who appeared in the community in the early 1900s and announced plans to start a new church.While Edmund Creffiel may have been unremarkable in the eyes of the city fathers, he became something else to many of the city mothers and daughters.

When Creffield and his "Holy Roller" religious cult made headlines in Oregon in 1903, it was page-one news throughout the country.Yet few people in Oregon and Washington today have heard Creffield's name or his incredible story.And the descendants of the people who were involved still refuse to talk about those events of 100 years ago. ... Read more

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A Story From 100 Years Ago...With A Message For Today
It happened a hundred years ago. But it could be happening right now. "Holy Rollers; Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult" can be read and appreciated on many levels. On the surface, it's a great true crime potboiler, filled with religion, sex and murder. But its also a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of seemingly normal, well-adjusted people to the seductions of mass insanity. Whether it's Edmund Creffeld in 1905, Adolph Hitler in 1933 or Jim Jones in 1978, we've seen it happen again and again. In fact, the story in this book has a peculiar kind of resonance in that one of the key locations--Waldport, Oregon, also was the place where the Heaven's Gate cult held its first public gathering.

Edmund Creffeld was a Salvation Army dropout who arrived in Corvallis, Oregon in 1900 to start a new church. Within a few short years, he had persuaded some of the community's leading citizens--primarily of the female gender--to join his cult of madness. They literally practiced "holy rolling," sometimes turning themselves over and over for hours and hours at a time, becoming all the more caught up in the cult of Creffeld's strange personality. Creffeld was tarred and feathered (really!) and run out of town. That didn't stop him, nor did a stretch in the state prison. His ultimate, violent end seems almost foreordained.

T. McCracken and Robert Blodgett have combined their talents to produce an amazing story. Thanks to exhaustive research in newspapers and other contemporary sources, they're able to re-create the wild ride of Creffeld and his cult in vivid, day-to-day detail. I finished the book in a single sitting; I predict you will, too.--William C. Hall

Fascinating Read
This was definitely a page-turner!I live in this area.So, it was interesting to imagine that this went on right here!I had never heard about it, and I have lived here for the last 25 years.Makes me want to examine all the houses and areas they went to.

The book is written with a newspaper sensationalism kind of feel, but that shouldn't bother you too much.

Holy RollersRocks
The authors give us a true account, set in "the good old days",showing us that murderous cults didn't start with the Manson family, and religious fanatacism isn't an import nurtured only in foreign lands. Immediate and enthralling as any real crime story currently on the shelves or TV, this page-turning ride has just the right amount of wry, observational wit to balance the horrors. I loved it.

An incredible, painstaking reconstruction
Collaboratively researched and written by T. McCracken and Robert B. Blodgett, Holy Rollers: Murder And Madness In Oregon's Love Cult is the "truth is stranger than fiction" story of the "Holy Roller" religious cult that made brutal newspaper headlines in 1903. It all began when Salvation Army dropout Edmund Creffield arrived in Corvallis, Oregon and founded a new "church". The city fathers were less than impressed -- but not so their wives and daughters! A century later, descendants of the people involved in the macabre events of Creffield's Holy Roller Cult still refuse to discuss what happened. Holy Rollers is an incredible, painstaking reconstruction and revealing expose that create a gripping book that offers especial insight into the dark side of mass psychology, religious hysteria, and unbridled charismatic religious authority. ... Read more