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As the self-appointed exit counselor for UBF, I have much to share on this topic. Since 2011, I have interacted with over 40 UBF members while they were at UBF. Most of them have now left UBF for good. I plan to submit a few articles to Eddie, for this topic is of great interest to me. I also plan to share a series on recovering from UBF, for those who decide to leave for good. Here are my initial three thoughts.
What has been lost has been found. It was believed that upstanders to the perpetrators of UBF and its retribution were silenced or disbanded. However, that is not truly the case. The reformers are still active and mainly together even to this day. In fact with the way events and circumstances are proceeding in current UBF chapters where current members are shaken up and questioning things (like those who are still in the chapter I use to go to) there’ll be a 5th reform movement. This is a theory of course but a very probably one.
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UBF leaders like to claim they are just a normal mainline church. This is categorically false. UBF cut all ties with the Presbyterian Church and formed their own new religion. Here is my summary of this new religion.
UBFism is the new religion invented by Chang-Woo (Samuel) Lee and Sarah Barry in 1961. It is practiced exclusively by University Bible Fellowship. The religion has not been comprehensively documented or examined objectively except for here on this new Wiki. The religion has been passed on by oral tradition until now. This new religion is a sort of hyper evangelicalism mixed with Buddhist and Confucian values, and bound by an ideology of sacrifice. UBFism is a shepherding system, where each member, called a sheep, has an appointed lifelong moral supervisor, called a shepherd. I have identified nine components of this religious system.
I don’t think it’s particularly helpful, or even useful (however that’s defined) to attack a work of any kind on account of its age or the culture it which it grew up. It fails to answer the question of if it’s truthful, which is really the only question worth answering. It is not at all useful to say that a practice or book or hymn was right “back then” and not right now. Read More
Someone asked me this week about why the negative articles about UBF are all from the 1980’s and 1990’s, with almost no recent articles. Did UBF suddenly get better since the death of Samuel Lee in 2002? Here is my answer.