The Cult of Rodney Howard-Browne: “Holy Ghosted”
Was I In A Cult?15 Sep 2025

The Cult of Rodney Howard-Browne: “Holy Ghosted”

She thought she was enrolling in a Bible college.


Instead, she was signing up to give her identity, her labor, her choice—and her fire—to a man who called himself the Holy Ghost Bartender.


At “River University,” worship looked like laughing fits and collapsing bodies. Romance was arranged. Submission wasn’t suggested—it was glorified. And your soul? That was just a tally mark on a clipboard.


For Sarah, what started as a mission from God turned into a 12-year descent through emotional control, spiritual abuse, and religious labor trafficking.


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