Unmasking Wonderland
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“We are all mad here.”
For twenty years, Kenna lived inside a dream she didn’t create. She was the primary voice and visual storyteller for Evermore Church, a thriving, inclusive community that promised a “Disneyland” for the soul.
Recruited for her creativity and trained into the role of a loyal “Armour Bearer,” Kenna was entrusted with intensifying the expansive vision of her Senior Pastor, Austin Bradley. But beneath the polished stage lights and the promises of spiritual purpose, a meticulously crafted labyrinth of coercive control was being built.
In Unmasking Wonderland, the scales finally fall.
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“We are all mad here.”
For twenty years, Kenna lived inside a dream she didn’t create. She was the primary voice and visual storyteller for Evermore Church, a thriving, inclusive community that promised a “Disneyland” for the soul.
Recruited for her creativity and trained into the role of a loyal “Armor Bearer,” Kenna was entrusted with intensifying the expansive vision of her Senior Pastor, Austin Bradley. But beneath the polished stage lights and the promises of spiritual purpose, a meticulously crafted labyrinth of coercive control was being built.
In Unmasking Wonderland, the scales finally fall.
Through the thematic lens of Alice in Wonderland, Karen documents the subject’s harrowing descent into a world where logic was inverted, kindness was treated as treason, and absolute surrender to the architect at the top was the only currency. This is a raw, factual exploration of how even the most educated and visionary minds can be groomed into complicity within a high-control group.
The heart of this story belongs to the silenced:
Red: A twelve-year-old girl whose report of sexual assault was systematically buried by leadership to protect a reputation.
Tesha: A minor isolated from her support systems through strategic psychological warfare.
Kara: A single mother haunted by Austin in the dead of the night.
When the “nuclear explosion” of 2023 finally shattered the facade, Kenna and a small band of survivors were left to navigate the debris of their lives. Documenting the journey through a diagnosis of Complex PTSD, the book reveals the staggering cost of breaking two decades of silence to demand accountability from the man who designed their prison.
A Memoir of Many Voices
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Phoebe Hicks –
The Trinity of Fear, Shame and Guilt in Church
Calling this book good or enjoyable doesn’t feel quite right. Those words seem a little crass given the subject matter. What I can say is that it is very well written, I read it cover to cover in a single sitting.
This collection of survivors’ stories from within a toxic church environment, led by a deeply disturbing and power-obsessed leader, is confronting and eye-opening.
While each story is deeply personal, the patterns described echo the experiences of many others who have endured similar “leadership” in other churches.
The similarities are chilling: the abuse of power used to control people spiritually, emotionally, physically and financially. Too many people in pulpits appear willing to use on fear, shame and guilt in the name of God to “grow the kingdom.”
Books like this matter because they bring difficult stories into the light, stories that too often remain hidden behind silence, loyalty and misplaced trust.
– Phoebe Hicks