Dominique (Dom) Benninger is a technologist, researcher, and institutional accountability advocate based in Pennsylvania. A survivor of the high-control college group known as the Narrowgate Fellowship, Dom has spent years documenting how spiritual manipulation, psychological coercion, and authoritarian control operate within religious communities. After later blowing the whistle on a convicted predator in a Pennsylvania church, he channeled his tech background into systemic reform. Dom co-founded BaptistAccountability.org and serves as Vice President of ProtestantAccountability.org, an expansive survivor-led database that aggregates public records of clergy abuse and organizational concealment. His work bridges lived experience and data science to expose institutional abuse and help people identify manipulation tactics.
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Links Mentioned:
Listing: “Edward (Jack) Powers”
“Man gets closure 30 years after sexual assault” (Polk Itemizer-Observer)
“Bad Faith: The Narrowgate Cult” by Logan M. Davis (Colorado Times Recorder)
“‘The tongue is a fire’: Southern Baptist church fractures over secrets and spiritual abuse” (USA Today)
“Emergency hearing set in Pawleys Island church class-action lawsuit” (CountOn2.com/WCBD-TV)
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