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)
Jack Powers Obituary (Legacy.com)
“‘The tongue is a fire’: Southern Baptist church fractures over secrets and spiritual abuse” (USA Today, 2/12/20)
Stop Baptist Predators (not active since 2012)
This Little Light: Beyond a Baptist Preacher Predator and His Gang by Christa Brown (Amazon)
The Body Keeps the Score - by Bessel van der Kolk (Amazon)
20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms (Houston Chronicles)
The Preacher Boys Podcast (exposing clergy sexual abuse in the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist denomination)
Bishop Accountability (exposing clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic denomination)
Anglican Watch (exposing clergy sexual abuse in the Episopalian/Anglican denominations)
Mennonite Abuse Prevention (exposing clergy sexual abuse in the Mennonite/Anabaptist denominations)
SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests; Reources for survivors of clergy sexual abuse in ALL denominations)
How the Southern Baptist Convention covered up its widespread sexual abuse scandal (NPR, 6/2/22)
Jeffrey Epstein survivors compiling their own ‘client list’ (NewsNation, 9/3/25)
Wikipedia Links
Section 230 (of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 - CDA)
Mike Chapman’s links:
Husband Material Ministries (“HM”/”HMM”; faith-based ministry helping men find freedom from pornography and other sexual brokenness issues) FREE
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