The Supreme Court upheld a ruling against the Unification Church and pushed the scandal-ridden religious organization closer toward dissolution. In a decision dated March 3, the Supreme Court ruled that the church, now officially called the Family Federation for World…[Continue Reading...]
A former member of the high-profile New Zealand sect Gloriavale has written a book about her life and she’s launching it at an event in rural east Auckland. Theophila Pratt, who was named Honey Faithful at birth, was born and…[Continue Reading...]
Debby Hopkins, a member of the House of Yahweh, made her journey from a devotee to a free woman after twenty years with the group. The House of Yahweh was known to be a sect of people who enforced strict…[Continue Reading...]
Angela Johnson revealed what her childhood in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) was really like A nurse has told how she managed to flee a notorious polygamous cult which makes members completely 'isolated from the…[Continue Reading...]
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? New research has highlighted an important factor: spite. Conspiracy theories—alternative explanations for major events that reject well-evidenced explanations in favor of implausible, illogical, or fantastical secret plots—have surged in popularity, particularly in times…[Continue Reading...]
The de la Mottes family is still processing their 15 years as members of their conservative church. “[It felt like we were] brainwashed members of a cult,” Amber de la Motte shared on TLC’s Big Family, Big City on Tuesday,…[Continue Reading...]
The ruling follows years of legal battles after Santamaría and his colleagues published a 2022 report with the Institute Salud Sin Bulos, in which they argued that Gestalt Therapy is not only ineffective but also financially and psychologically harmful to…[Continue Reading...]
SIPPING coffee, Serena Kelley takes in the gorgeous landscape of her home in New Mexico. It might be hard to believe but it was this moment that was her greatest ambition in life. “I vividly remember gazing at the people…[Continue Reading...]
Utahns in a major study were likelier than Americans as a whole to say they were religiously unaffiliated — even though the state is widely considered the most religious. The big picture: 34% of Utah respondents identified as atheist, agnostic…[Continue Reading...]
When Nikki Hill Johnson’s first daughter was born in 2012, Johnson didn’t hesitate to take her to the doctor for routine infant immunizations. Soon after the birth, South Carolina-based Johnson, now 42, joined a fitness- and nutrition-oriented multilevel marketing company…[Continue Reading...]
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