Author and journalist Liz Hodgkinson gets the BKs more middle class tabloid coverage with a Daily Mail article on The husband I love left me for the man upstairs ... that's God, just in case you're wondering" about the reasons behind her divorce from her husband and BKWSU "ambassador" journalist Neville Hodgkinson.
You see, Liz has a new book to promote, "Why Women Believe in God ... in conversation with BK Jayanti of the BKWSU", published 26 October 2012.
The BKs get good PR and Liz makes a few bucks for very little effort ... I guess just like the last time? I have not read the book yet, I don't suppose they will be sending us a review copy. A nice piece of the polished, soft touch PR BK Neville is known for. I doubt Liz asked "all the awkward questions" we could, including questioning whether the BK god is actually the god of all other religions.
The comment section of the Daily Mail was closed early but did not favour the BKs' god ... "a god rather than 'The God'".
Liz Hodgkinson, whose last book on the BK called "Peace and Purity" was an inaccurate and lightweight PR job during which it appears Neville steered her away from more revealing controversies of the Brahma Kumari cult, has remain friends with Jayanti Kirpalani and "serviceable" to the BKWSU. A woman who, by her own admission, "would rather have her nails done than ponder the eternal verities" plays the feminist card, or perhaps "womanist" card, for the BKs again.
You see, Liz has a new book to promote, "Why Women Believe in God ... in conversation with BK Jayanti of the BKWSU", published 26 October 2012.
The BKs get good PR and Liz makes a few bucks for very little effort ... I guess just like the last time? I have not read the book yet, I don't suppose they will be sending us a review copy. A nice piece of the polished, soft touch PR BK Neville is known for. I doubt Liz asked "all the awkward questions" we could, including questioning whether the BK god is actually the god of all other religions.
Why Women Believe in God takes the form of a discussion between two lively, outspoken women with very different viewpoints and life experiences. We ask an important question, whether God is necessary, and answer it with reference to scriptures, politics, feminism, secularisation and the serious financial and environmental issues which now confront us and which can no longer be ignored. These days, most educated people - men and women - take the attitude that God and religion are outdated and belong only to fundamentalism and the bible belt. We pull no punches, ask all the awkward questions and try to find satisfying answers. Liz Hodgkinson, a well-known journalist and author of many controversial books, asks the questions, and Sister Jayanti, who has dedicated her life to spirituality, provides the answers.
The comment section of the Daily Mail was closed early but did not favour the BKs' god ... "a god rather than 'The God'".
Liz Hodgkinson, whose last book on the BK called "Peace and Purity" was an inaccurate and lightweight PR job during which it appears Neville steered her away from more revealing controversies of the Brahma Kumari cult, has remain friends with Jayanti Kirpalani and "serviceable" to the BKWSU. A woman who, by her own admission, "would rather have her nails done than ponder the eternal verities" plays the feminist card, or perhaps "womanist" card, for the BKs again.
Daily Mail readers wrote:In 1981 their children were still children. Why did their Father abandon their life as a family?
- Dee , Ireland, Ireland, 15/11/2012
is not he a bit old to have imaginary friends?
- Paul , Manc, United Kingdom, 15/11/2012 19:35
Any god or religion that breaks up a happy family is to be avoided. This is a false and dangerous god!
- Dee , London, Algeria, 15/11/2012
He has found a god, not God, its different
- Veronica Essex , London, United Kingdom,
If my husband told me he was off to meditate with a bunch of women, I would tell him to THINK again.
- Angela , Esher, 15/11/2012
He has joined a eastern cult. The God I know would not would not break up a marriage and family. VERY misleading article.
- S. , Sussex, 15/11/2012