Since 2001, Massi has attacked the response of
Fundamentalist churches in cases of
child molestation committed by members of the clergy in which the leadership (and sometimes the entire congregation) enforced silence on the victims.[2]
In 2005, Massi produced a five-part audio documentary, The Lambs of Culpeper,[3] and released it onto the
Internet for free
download. The documentary addresses alleged abuses against children at Calvary Baptist Church of
Culpeper, Virginia, a church then pastored by Charles Shifflett. In 2007, Massi founded the Conference of the Lambs, a two-day conference designed to assist adults who had been molested as children in Fundamentalist churches.[4] In 2008 Massi self-published Schizophrenic Christianity, which denounced corruption within Protestant Fundamentalism that had resulted in harm, especially to children.[5] In 2009, Massi conducted interviews of former residents of Hephzibah House in
Warsaw, Indiana, a Protestant Fundamentalist Children's home for girls. She then produced The Lambs of Hephzibah House,[6] an audio documentary that alleges severe abuse of residents at Hephzibah House. In 2011, Gary Tuchman, a
CNN journalist reporting for Anderson Cooper 360, interviewed many of the same former residents and produced an episode about Hephzibah House on CNN's "Ungodly Discipline" series.[7]
Works
Derwood Inc. (June 1986; Peabody Adventure Series, Book 1)
A Dangerous Game (June 1986; Peabody Adventure Series, Book 2)
Treasure in the Yukon (October 1986; Peabody Adventure Series, Book 3)
The Bridge (1986; Bracken Trilogy, Book 1)
Courage by Darkness (December 1987; Peabody Adventure Series, Book 4)
Crown and Jewel (1987; Bracken Trilogy, Book 2)
The Two Collars (April 1988; Bracken Trilogy, Book 3)
Llamas on the Loose (June 1988; Peabody Adventure Series, Book 5)
Abandoned (1 May 1989; Peabody Adventure Series, Book 6)
Valkyries: Some Through the Fire (2003)
Valkyries: All Through the Blood (2003)
Schizophrenic Christianity (2008)
Hall of Heroes: A Novel Set in Peabody, Wisconsin (14 October 2013)
^Opposition to abusive fundamentalist churches took form with the publication of
Vic Nischik, Wizard of God: My Life with
Jack Hyles (Buchanan, Mi.: Sychar Publishing, 1990) and gained impetus with the publication of
Voyle Glover, Fundamental Seduction: The Jack Hyles case (Schrerville, Indiana: Brevia Publishing, 1990) who marshaled evidence against Jack Hyles and
First Baptist Church of Hammond regarding abuses of church office and church doctrine. Massi was further influenced by a 1993 news documentary
Preying from the Pulpit, produced by
WJBK of Detroit. Audio of this documentary is available at
Massi's websiteArchived 2008-04-11 at the
Wayback Machine. In 2012, Flashrock Films' executive producer Adam Rockoff engaged Massi as associate producer of the independent film, The Blue Room, a documentary examining the abuses at Hephzibah House (unreleased).
^Jeri Massi, Schizophrenic Christianity: How Christian Fundamentalism Attracts and Protects Sociopaths, Abusive Pastors, and Child Molesters (Raleigh, NC.: Jupiter Rising Books, 2008). Massi has also critiqued fundamentalism through the serialised stories
Secret Radio and A Standard Christian, which chronicle the life of a student at fictional Greater Independent Baptist College.