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Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer
Preacher Kevin O. Smith, parishioners arrested for alleged human sacrifices
‘It was like prison’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
Naive Christians slammed for missing Kevin Smith red flags | News | Jamaica Gleaner
Kevin Smith’s money trail | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
‘He left a trail of pain and debt’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
‘Kevin Smith will return’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
Kevin O. Smith’s social media footprint | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
Kevin Smith had great prophetic powers, says Henley Morgan | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip. | Vox
Book Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler - 9Marks
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“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult | The Walrus
Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer
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‘It was like prison’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
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