The Unification Church, widely known as the Moonies, has inked a contract to sell its longtime Midtown Manhattan headquarters at 4 West 43rd Street to an entity tied to developer Bentley Zhao's New Empire firm. The deal covers a full…[Continue Reading...]
Television audiences admit they are "still in disbelief" after watching an "insane" documentary series. Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God originally premiered on HBO Max back in 2023 and chronicles a self proclaimed spiritual saviour who established a…[Continue Reading...]
“Mike Edwards was unlike your average balaclava-wearing cellist in a rock group,” Jeff Lynne once said in tribute to his former bandmate. What a eulogy. But the thing was, it was actually very true. Edwards was absolutely not your average…[Continue Reading...]
When most people reflect on life’s threats, becoming engulfed in a high-control organization is rarely our first thought. Research suggests that around 1 percent of individuals worldwide become involved in groups of psychological abuse (Castaño et al., 2022), also known…[Continue Reading...]
Naasón Joaquín, leader of the La Luz del Mundo evangelical church, is serving a sentence in the United States for child sexual abuse and faces new federal charges for organized crime, sex trafficking, and child pornography. The U.S. justice system…[Continue Reading...]
Before Yoko Ono‘s marriage to John Lennon, the Japanese artist made her name in New York’s avant-garde scene, producing experimental performances and conceptual artwork. Meanwhile, her early career coincided with motherhood when, in 1963, her first child, Kyoko Ono Cox,…[Continue Reading...]
A cult is built on belief. Of giving yourself over to a higher power. What you’re actually believing in, what that higher power actually is? That’s somewhat secondary to the act itself. This might sound strange, but it’s true. What’s…[Continue Reading...]
Lena Dunham's new memoir, Famesick, debuted on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. The new tell-all book details her experience filming her hit 2012 HBO series Girls, navigating health battles, intimate details from her five-year relationship with Grammy-winning producer Jack Antonoff, and…[Continue Reading...]
There was silence as a Mombasa court on Tuesday heard chilling accounts of how former followers of cult leader Paul Mackenzie were indoctrinated and the subsequent deaths of their loved ones. The Kwa Binzaro deaths took centre stage in proceedings…[Continue Reading...]
Most artists write from what they know. Franni Cash writes from what she survived. In her own words: "My senior year of high school, my family and I walked out of the religious cult I'd grown up in after some…[Continue Reading...]
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