My personal experience with Opus Dei as an undergraduate and in my professional career was typical of many of others my age at the time. As a conservative Catholic, I appreciated the order’s focus on the layperson’s potential to explore…[Continue Reading...]
Emily Watson's upbringing in a cult-like group helped her to prepare for 'Dune: Prophecy'. In HBO’s prequel series to the 'Dune films', Emily, 57, plays Valya Harkonnen, leader of a controlling religious sect, and she admitted that her childhood in…[Continue Reading...]
A man “dedicated to white supremacist” beliefs is facing federal charges in an alleged plot to use an explosives-laden drone to blow up a Nashville energy facility “in furtherance of his accelerationist ideology,” a federal criminal complaint filed this week…[Continue Reading...]
Concerns have been raised over the relationship between Lewisham council and a church which allegedly showed teenagers a video of a dead body to scare them from leaving, according to former members.The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG)…[Continue Reading...]
ONE TREE HILL star Bethany Joy Lenz is discovering a new relationship with faith after escaping a cult. “I got involved in something that seemed very rote,” she explained in an interview with Variety. “I grew up in a Christian home…[Continue Reading...]
In the 1980s, religion and politics, two forces that affect all our lives, locked arms in a concerted effort to seize power in government and overturn America's most basic constitutional guarantee: the separation of church and state. Holy Terror was…[Continue Reading...]
How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? Maybe on occasion, when you flip through TV channels and land on an episode of “Ancient Aliens.” Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme…[Continue Reading...]
Despots around the world have often tried to impose themselves on their societies’ systems for reckoning time. Now North Korea has abandoned its unique calendar, in a further indication of the growing confidence of its supreme leader, Kim Jong-un. The…[Continue Reading...]
From self-help to religious groups, cults can take many forms – and the psychological techniques they use can make them hard to leave. Here's how to spot the warning signs... Watch the video https://www.bbc.com/videos/cp81y12475mo?fbclid=IwY2xjawGVn29leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeIoAEiQYWtzzL-Pr84_czBOXexi89gDpLPMBacWU8TCjvhvQNlUno54SQ_aem_UYP9P47zLC6efPezfPqKQA[Continue Reading...]
Get ready to step back into 1982, when leg warmers were hot, love bombing was part of the wellness routine, and a retreat for the “depressed and downtrodden” might seem like a good and helpful idea. Toronto’s Small but Mighty…[Continue Reading...]
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