Trump has called out the self-described “North Carolina Girls” at rallies this year in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Arizona and South Carolina. But the women are unusual in ways beyond their ubiquity. All are members of an evangelical charismatic Christian church in the tiny town of Spindale in western North Carolina. The church, Word of Faith Fellowship, has for decades drawn controversy over its cultish insularity and its treatment of children and adults who have been judged by church leaders to be sinners.
