Christopher Owens, the songwriter who fronts jangling indie rockers Girls, insists he doesn't have an ax to grind. Sure, the revivalist cult Children of God effectively destroyed his life before it had even begun, indoctrinating a young Owens to live like a monk in the name of "apostolicism." Sure, they dragged his mother kicking and screaming into a prostitution ring (so much for that literal interpretation of the Bible). And, yeah, the cult's powers that be left his brother to die of pneumonia because they thought hospitals were icky, secular places. In spite of all this, Owens claims to feel no hatred toward his... More >>>