LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — There is yet another installment in Jerry Falwell Jr.'s ongoing lawsuit against Liberty University and President Jerry Prevo who are accused of infringing on the trademark and intellectual property rights of the Dr. Jerry L. Falwell…[Continue Reading...]
Jonathan Durrant, Principal Lecturer in History, University of South Wales About 400 years ago, the European witch hunts were at their peak. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, an estimated 50,000 people, mostly women, were executed for witchcraft across Europe. They…[Continue Reading...]
White evangelical Americans are more willing to endorse political violence than their non-Christian counterparts, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Concerns about political violence have been on the rise since the January 6, 2021,…[Continue Reading...]
The rapid outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) led to a pandemic known as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A recent Scientific Reports study assessed the effect of religiosity, education, trust in scientists, and political orientation on people’s belief…[Continue Reading...]
I was recently listening to an episode of the podcast My Favorite Murder, when I heard about a strange cult that was started back in the 1920s in Los Angeles. To my surprise, the leader of the cult, May Otis Blackburn, was…[Continue Reading...]
Communities across the American South have removed Confederate monuments from public spaces in recent years. Some have gone to museums, others are locked away in storage. But one particularly controversial statue from Charlottesville, Va. is on a different journey —…[Continue Reading...]
Police on Thursday launched raids on several targets across Germany and the Spanish island of Mallorca in an effort to secure evidence in a case being prepared by police and prosecutors in the eastern German cities of Oldenburg and Celle.…[Continue Reading...]
A former Jehovah's Witness hopes more survivors of abuse will come forward, knowing that the church will face scrutiny over what happened to children and young people in its care. The High Court in Wellington has dismissed a legal bid…[Continue Reading...]
Roch Thériault was an intelligent and charismatic religious extremist who, in the 1970s, founded a commune known as the Ant Hill Kids in the woods around Quebec. Thériault had persuaded a dozen or so followers to live with him “free…[Continue Reading...]
In the 1990s, “Satanic Panic” swept North America and other parts of the world, a false belief that Devil worshipers were engaging in ritual abuse of children on a mass scale – drinking their blood, forcing them into prostitution and…[Continue Reading...]
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