Everyone familiar with the internship understands the basic rules you are required to follow, i.e. no secular music, no R rated movies, no dating. But there are many other behaviors that are strongly recommended by David Hasz and the group peer pressure is enormous. Exercise 4 times per week, one hour quiet time per day, learn new […]
This series is inspired by Alan Knox’s Scripture…As We Live It series. John 8: 3-11 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees Honor Academy staff brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group Honor Court and said to Jesus, Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Honor Academy handbook, Moses Dave
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If you thought the Honor Academy was only about getting to know Jesus Christ more and to be more like him, you were wrong. It is also about attaining “the Aura of a Statesmen.” In recent years, this has become a very important cause for Dave Hasz. Dave gets this idea from 2 Cor. 5:20
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In a post on December 1, 2008, David Hasz, director of the Honor Academy, said: In this spiritual battle, it is crucial that you remember who provides the strength to win the battle. Satan’s conquests are only successful over ignorant individuals who don’t have the strength or understanding to resist him. Only Christians without complete armor
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This is part 2 in examining the characteristics of a cult in relation to the Honor Academy as listed by the International Cultic Studies Association. My comments are in italics. – The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs,
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UPDATE JUNE 2011: For the first 2 years of this blog, I was not willing to call Teen Mania a cult. I instead referred to it as “cult-like” or a “spiritually abusive group.” However, after reading literature about cults and attending a cult recovery workshop, I now see that Teen Mania is a cult. Internationally
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This is part 3 in examining the list of cult characteristics from the International Cultic Studies Association and how it relates to the Honor Academy internship. – The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members’ participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered
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This question has come up time and time again. As an intern, we joked about how the townsfolk nearby thought we were a cult. It was funny, because of course we weren’t a cult! It wasn’t until several years later, when I came across a long list of cult characteristics that I began to seriously
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Is Teen Mania a cult? Is the Honor Academy brainwashing teens? What really goes on during the one year internship program? I spent 2 years in the Teen Mania Honor Academy. The first as an “intern” and the second as a “graduate intern.” The purpose of this blog is to share my experience with those
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If you want to revisit the first part of Erin’s story, links are below. Tomorrow will be the final installment about her GI year. Erin’s Story, Part 1Erin’s Story: Part 2 I didn’t grow up in a Christian home AT ALL. I was raised Agnostic with a Christian tilt, very liberal and pretty much God-less.
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