We previously only had the healing portion of the STP project. Now we are able to bring it to you in whole. It was believed that all copies were recalled from the ministry and destroyed. Or so we were told.

In 2007 a copy of the STP project appeared on eBay (eBay didn't exist when this web site started in 1994). I recognized the email id as one of a friend and was able to get a photocopy of the original before the sale completed on eBay. In their role as an employee for the WCG they had squirreled away a copy of the STP, thinking it might be of historical interest some day.

While the document is controversial in itself among conservatives, its quite instructive to see exactly what it was that got the conservatives undies in such a metaphorical twist. The STP does give a pretty accurate description of Armstrong theology in 1978 as it was commonly understood by the membership. It was published as a 3 ring loose leaf document, presumably to be continually updated as the church evolved. The project was envisaged as a collaborative venture with the ministry.

The documents has been scanned, spell checked to American English standards. The HTML version has been reformated to suite the HTML method of displaying text.

After working with this document, I was left with the feeling the whole liberal purge was over a tempest in a tea pot. Lives and reputations were destroyed over this document? Perhaps the conservatives just didn't want their beliefs written down where they could be held accountable for them in courts of law? Your guess is as good as mine.

The church boasted for years that it would change its doctrines when they were proved inaccurate. The changes on the late 1990s, proved that some changes were more "sticky" and resistant to change than others.

At the time this web site was created in 1995, the WCG was about 80,000 strong. Today its around 10,000 individuals, and another 20,000 scattered among conservative splinter groups.