Illegitimate: How a Loving God Rescued a Son of Polygamy

Mackert, Brian; Miller, Susan Martins

ISBN 10: 1434766918 / ISBN 13: 9781434766915

Published by David C Cook Publishing Company, 2008

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Dust jacket is lightly bumped at the front top right corner. Book pages are clean with no marks and no page folds except former owner's name written in black ink on the back of the last page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Illegitimate: How a Loving God Rescued a Son of Polygamy
• Publisher: David C Cook Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1434766918
• ISBN 13: 9781434766915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The recent events at a Fundamentalist Mormon compound in Texas have ignited a national dialogue on religious sects. Formed as a splinter group of the LDS church, these secretive cults exist in an insular world far removed from mainstream American culture. A world of abuse and twisted theology that seems too bizarre to be true.

Yet for Brian J. Mackert, life inside this sect was all too real. As a son in a family of one father, four wives, and 31 children, Brian experienced firsthand the devastating realities of polygamous cults.  

Now Brian tells his remarkable story of tragedy and healing. Illegitimate takes readers behind today's shocking headlines and inside the walls of this controversial sect. Brian reveals a world of loving mothers and abusive fathers, devoted children and sibling rivalry, fake religion and the truth eventually found in Christ-outside the walls of the FLDS. Ultimately, Illegitimate demonstrates the incredible love of God, and His ability to bring light into the darkest of places.

About the Author

Brian J. Mackert was raised in a splinter group of the LDS church that endorsed polygamy. He later embraced a true relationship with Christ and became a licensed Baptist minister. In addition to his profession as a telecom engineer, Brian regularly speaks to church groups about the realities of radical Mormonism.Susan Martins Miller has edited and authored over 30 books for children and adults. In addition she has conducted several publisher-development workshops for writers and editors in Nepal, India, Slovakia, Colombia and Bolivia on behalf of Cook Communications Ministries International. She lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two children.