Gwen Shamblin's Remnant
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Gwen Shamblin, Christian dietician and leder of the Remnant Fellowship Church has been accused of encouraging punishments that amount to child abuse and lead to the death of a young boy.
Former members also accuse Remnant leaders of condoning beatings with glue-gun sticks and locking disobedient children in their rooms with only a Bible for company. ...
Shamblin said she used a wooden spoon on her children and has never advocated glue sticks but doesn't think there's anything wrong with it.
Church leader: Abuse case being used to attack her
There's Gwen Shamblin's 1997 Weigh Down, (Doubleday), a book and group weight loss program which eschews exercise and food restriction and instead urges people to shift their obsession with food to a commitment to God. A church associated with that program is under fire today, after the alleged murder of an 8-year-old boy in suburban Atlanta ...