Illustration: Daniel Zender

Inside the Secret World of Covenant Communities

The tight-knit, restrictive, and obedient religious groups whose views shaped the country’s newest Supreme Court Justice

Sarah Stankorb
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12 min readOct 28, 2020

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In the summer of 1974, John Flaherty, an 18-year-old high school grad, attended a Thursday night prayer meeting at a local Catholic parish in East Liverpool, Ohio. When the group…

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Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com