Robert Burton, leader of Fellowship of Friends, Oregon House, Calif., in 1981. (Gary Fong/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) They were searching for spiritual awakening and enlightenment.

An Oregon House-based religious organization and its founder were accused of concealing sexual abuse settlements and ongoing allegations in order to obtain insurance, according to a federal lawsuit ...

The suit claimed that the Fellowship of Friends, an obscure group based in the Sierra Nevada foothills, gained influence inside Google. By Cade Metz Cade Metz, based in San Francisco, has followed ...

A civil lawsuit was filed last month against the Fellowship of Friends, its leader and several others connected with what at least one former member described as a “cult” that is located in the ...

They were searching for spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Instead, the six men were subject to “rampant, unceasing sexual abuse” by their spiritual guide, in concert with members of a ...