My life in an end-times sect with a guitar, books as my only possessions
NY Post
Growing up in an end-times religious community, Shawna Kay Rodenberg renounced her earthly possessions and spoke in tongues. She was whipped for the smallest infraction, such as using a marker to underline passages in her Bible.
And yet, “there was a camaraderie there,” Rodenberg said. “We all were trying to navigate growing up and balancing being good with being free.” She details her life in her memoir “Kin” (Bloomsbury), out now, starting in Seco, Ky., the Appalachian region where her family dates back 300 years. Rodenberg’s mother, Debbie, watched as the coal mines destroyed her father and older brother Jesse, who would get so violent that she sometimes had to lock him in a cage overnight so he wouldn’t kill her.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.