The Fellowship of Friends is an elite and secretive spiritual organization. Ex-members say it’s a doomsday cult and that its leader, Robert Earl Burton, preys on his followers. On October 20, 2018, journalist Jennings Brown was at the Fellowship’s extravagant compound, observing the final black-tie dinner before the end of the world. Robert had predicted the apocalypse was going to begin the next morning and Jennings wanted to report on the community as it prepared for a global catastrophe. But Jennings soon realized the end-times prophecy was just the beginning of the story. He’d spend the...
“I must create a system, or be enslav’d by another man’s.”
Jennings returns to Apollo one last time in the throes of a global catastrophe that looks much like the tragedies that Robert predicted. He finds that while the rest of the world is suffering the effects of the pandemic, the Fellowship...
Published 11/07/21
“Vice thrives and lives by concealment.”
The Fellowship has been sued by former members and investigated by the Department of Homeland Security, but the organization has never been charged with wrongdoing. How has it been able to operate for half a century despite several credible accusations of...
Published 10/31/21