Author Steven Hassan, who writes and speaks about groups called “cults,” has a personal history of cult involvement. Hassan was in the Unification Church (“Moonies”) founded by Sun Myung Moon for two years in the 1970s. And his origin story…[Continue Reading...]
As the so-called Doomsday Cult Mom - - who's already serving life sentences in Idaho on murder convictions -- is set to be arraigned Thursday on other charges in Arizona, a psychologist and a body language expert analyze her demeanor.[Continue Reading...]
Lori Vallow, the mother convicted of murdering two of her children in a so-called doomsday plot, is scheduled to be arraigned in Arizona Thursday morning on charges alleging she killed her fourth husband and plotted to kill the ex-husband of…[Continue Reading...]
A US national, arrested by the FBI after a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia that claimed the lives of two police officers and a good samaritan, has been linked to the “End of Days” sect. It is alleged the…[Continue Reading...]
Some of you may remember our interview with historian Larry Eskridge in Episode 113 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Larry is our foremost authority on the Jesus People and he is the author of God’s Forever Family:…[Continue Reading...]
'Tis the season to watch cult documentaries, not Christmas romcoms filmed in Ogden last summer. Christmastime and cults go together like milk and phenobarbital-laced cookies: hypnotic sparkly lights; feigned goodwill; nonstop ad indoctrination; savior confusion (Jesus? Santa? Warren Jeffs?). Wake…[Continue Reading...]
The majority of haredim remain opposed to canceling the exemption of yeshiva students from IDF conscription and believe that the ultra-Orthodox sector will continue its insularity without integrating into Israeli society, according to a survey by the Jewish People Policy…[Continue Reading...]
America has always been fascinated by cults, those strange groups of slavish devotees who do strange things for strange reasons in strange ways for extremely strange leaders. Colorado's cultish history is on full display right now in HBO's docuseries Love…[Continue Reading...]
Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandal was released just a few days ago, exposing decades of coverup and abuse in the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement. If you haven’t watched it, understand that it’s gritty, raw and tear jerking. For…[Continue Reading...]
A former leader of the Unification Church’s U.S. branch sat in on a meeting in Tokyo in 2019 between future Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, sources said. Michael Jenkins visited Kishida, who was the…[Continue Reading...]
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