ICC/RCW – On the News

Media Coverage

Restored Churches Worldwide

The RCW is a new offshoot of the ICC, birthed from a church split in late 2024 that was orchestrated by Jason Dimitry, Mike Patterson and others. ICC/ICOC founder Kip McKean is now a member of the RCW.

Here’s a growing list of articles about them:

• How an Aggressive Church is Making Waves at N.C. State (24 February, 2025)

International Christian Church

News articles about the ICC, an offshoot of the ICOC in 2006 founded by Kip McKean:

• “This Church Promised to Save Their Souls. Defectors Say It Was a Cult” – RollingStone (3 August, 2023)
• “Not Your ‘Church Next Door’: ‘Cult’ Ignored Abuse, Ran ‘Pyramid Scheme,’ Lawsuit Claims” – RollingStone (31 December, 2022)
• “Sydney student shares warning signs after his friend joined a religious cult“
  – news.com.au (16 May, 2022)
• “I spent six months in a cult. They’re still here on campus.“
  – The Daily Northwestern (24 February, 2022)

International Churches of Christ (ICOC)

The history of the ICOC (the former church movement started by Kip McKean) go back much further than the ICC. But despite McKean’s departure in the early 2000s, this movement has continued in much of its doctrinal beliefs instilled by its founder, subsequently causing a lot of grief and psychological trauma for people who end up in their path.

The following is a growing list of news articles written about the ICOC:

• “US Christian group accused of covering up sexual abuse of minors“
  – The Guardian (19 March, 2023)
• “In Plain Sight: A Controversial Faith Group Finds a Home at Simmons“
  – The Simmons Voice (16 March, 2021)
• “A Different School Spirit: Harvard and the Boston Church of Christ“
  – The Harvard Crimson (10 April, 2014)
• “Unanswered Prayers: The Story of One Woman Leaving the International Church of Christ“
  – The Washingtonian (1 July, 2008)
• “Cult following” – The Guardian (21 June, 2000)

Documentaries

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Report on the ICOC with Trish Wood – 5th Estate, CBC (1993)

• “International Churches of Christ (Boston Movement)” – The Insider (May 1994)

• “Is the International Church of Christ a Cult? Fox News Investigates on ICOC with Catherine Crier” – Fox News (1999)