I will continue to dig more and try to figure this out. I was trying to figure out if any of his podcasts were archived anyplace as I was curious if he shared different written materials with his podcast participants vs the more mainstream fiction writings? It also wasn't totally clear if what Chad was writing as "fiction" really was "fiction" in his mind or the mind of any of his followers? On the GH podcast last night the comment was made about how Lori became 'enamoured' with Chad's teachings. I was trying to figure out if this meant Chad's books of "fiction" or whether Lori was reading something else written by Chad that isn't public? I'm still confused on the topic of Chad and his 'teachings' and whether he had any disciples in real life or if they were just people that subscribed to his podcast?
I think I've seen at least 5 references too to "dangerous cult" in MSM and this is being said so far as I can tell without attribution to any source documents that might discuss some of the Chad teachings. I'm not saying this to in any way defend Chad and his teachings, I'm just trying to better understand what his teachings involved and why precisely he was excommunicated and why he was deemed to be part of a 'dangerous cult'.
Here is the Statement from the "Preparing A People" website about the situation with Chad and Lori:
https://www.preparingapeople.com
Statement:
Statement on Recent News Events
December, 26, 2019
We are a small multi-media company (Color My Media) that has provided services to a variety of clients for about 7 years. "Preparing A People" was a series of lecture events focusing on self-reliance and personal preparation, that provided several LDS speakers and authors an educational forum. Associated with these events were podcasts, videos and websites used to advertise and distribute some of their content.
Chad Daybell was an author and began publishing books under the name of "Spring Creek Book Company." He spoke at some of the "Preparing A People" events, but had no ownership in it, nor was he a founder. Mr. Daybell was simply one of many speakers at the events. His last speaking engagement was back in February of 2019, in Boise, Idaho. Like all of our speakers, we helped promote the events by interviewing and podcasting interviews with our speakers, including, but in no way exclusively so, Mr. Daybell.
The majority of our work in 2019 has been contract video editing work for other companies, and had nothing to do with Mr. Daybell.
We decided in early Spring of 2019 to close out our Preparing A People commitments and moved back to Utah from Rexburg, Idaho to work with clients based in the Utah area. None of this had anything to do with Mr.Daybell.
While out of the country on a family trip, we were deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Tammy Daybell, the wife of Mr. Daybell.
We, Michael and Nancy James, own Color My Media, and the Preparing A People website and again, for clarity, Mr. Daybell had no ownership or founding interest in any of our business's.
We were shocked by the reports about Mr. Daybell and the missing children. Like everyone, we are deeply disturbed over media reports involving Mr. Daybell and his new wife Lori Vallow and her 2 missing children. Lori Vallow appeared on some podcasts submitted by our podcast network partners. We learned of the missing children Fri. Dec. 20, 2019. along with everyone else.
In light of concerning media reports and ongoing criminal investigations regarding the recent death of Lori Vallow's previous husband in Arizona, and the sudden death of Mr. Daybell's previous wife in Idaho, along with the unknown whereabouts of Chad and Lori, we feel it inappropriate to promote any media content that featured or contained references to either Chad Daybell or Lori Vallow.
We are cooperating with law enforcement, and ask anybody who has information that could assist investigators in Arizona or Idaho to please contact them. We ask for prayers on behalf of the missing kids and ask that the truth of whatever happened will be brought to light soon.
We are also amazed at the lack of journalistic standards by several news sources. "Preparing A People" is part of a media company that films speakers on a variety of topics not affiliated with any specific religion. It is not a "group" and is not a "Cult" or something you join, but has educational lecture events that can be attended or watched on video. We have provided multi-media services for a wide variety of other events and clients. Mr. Daybell did not start, own or control any part of our media company. He was also not paid to speak at our events. We also do not share any of Chad Daybell's or Lori Vallow's beliefs if they are contrary to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Michael & Nancy James
Color My Media & Preparing A People
