Identity Snatchers: Exposing a Korean Campus Bible Cult (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781514761823)

Brian Karcher is an author, engineer and avid LGBTQIA ally. He is a Bible cult survivor who was "done" with church after two decades of extreme religious dedication. He is a member of Matthew Vines' 2015 Reformation Project Leadership Cohort held in Washington D.C. Through worship and Bible study with gender and sexual minorities, Brian was inspired to love the church once again and to seek out a new church community. He has been happily married to a wonderful, intelligent and beautiful wife since 1994 and has four amazing children. Brian's religious background is extensive. He grew up in the Roman Catholic Church, participating in Catechism classes through high school as well as completing the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion. In college he became a leader in a campus Bible study organization from Korea where he donated nearly 40 hours of time every week for 16 years. He has gone to Russia as a missionary, amassed over 15,000 hours of bible meditation and was "pastor" in his own house church for eight years. In 2011, Brian and his family realized and escaped the undue religious influence that the campus bible study group and their Christianized ideologies had exerted on their lives. Those stories are in his first three books: "Rest Unleashed", "Goodness Found" and "Unexpected Christianity". In 2012 he was baptized at a North American Baptist church.