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According to court reporters, his lawyer Anna Karpenko said her client "sincerely repented" and that he believed he had simply been following orders from above not to take any prisoners.

At the time they released a statement which called on church leaders who had strayed from what they called "tenets of orthodoxy" to repent.

Most important of all, it inverts the liberal narrative of history, in which the misdeeds of the past offer us important lessons, mistakes to be confronted, repented and transcended on the path to something better.

He told Miller to consider the “spiritual ramifications” of his behavior under church doctrines, to repent and make restitution.

At the time of his 2024 conversion, Brand declared that he had repented of his past and that he would "acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself."