The Family International

Movement·Founded 1968 CE·At its height the group reported around ten thousand full-time members living communally. Since the 2010 reorganisation there is no communal membership and no published figure.

Judaism → Christianity → The Family International

Branch

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum Part of Belief →
The shared center — held across the tradition
The law is love, and nothing else survives it. Berg's Law of Love held that any act done in genuine love is permitted. It made the group generous, mobile and fearless, and it is what the abuse was justified under. Go deeper — context →
Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
The letters carried the authority. For four decades the group was governed by mailed letters treated as current revelation. Members read the newest one and changed their lives that week; critics and former members describe the same mechanism. Go deeper — context →
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