Performing Devotion, Planning Departure

Send us Fan Mail In Part 3 of my conversation with Lane Kamp, we explore the dual life of the cult during its time in Tonto Village — a small mountain town where the group integrated deeply into the community while privately maintaining layers of spiritual control and unspoken rules. Lane, now an adult with his own family, describes what it was like to live under that public-private split. The charter school had winning chess and basketball teams. The church’s businesses — from construction a...