In the house I grew up in, we had an altar made of Japanese cypress. It housed carved wooden tablets for my ancestors — small tombstones embossed with golden Japanese calligraphy. The most recently departed ones had names. Not their…[Continue Reading...]
(RNS) — Kiersten White had a happy, protected childhood. Growing up in Highland, Utah, the award-winning novelist attended a high school that was 96% Mormon. She descended from pioneers who crossed the plains in the 1800s to live out their…[Continue Reading...]
COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — Growing up, Briell Decker had 13 siblings, two mothers and a father who had more than 70 wives. Now, she's living life on her own. Decker was raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…[Continue Reading...]
Growing up a gay, Mormon, Latino in south Texas was not easy. While I was surrounded by many Latine people, I knew the world at large did not see us as the loving and diverse community that we are. On…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was raised in an extremist religious 'cult' has lifted a lid on the harrowing 'abuse' that she endured as a child. Tamara MC, 50, revealed that she was taught she 'wasn't worthy of cleanliness,' and forced to…[Continue Reading...]
Bethany Joy Lenz got candid about the “breaking point” that led her to leave the cult she was a part of for a decade. “There’s a lot of highs and lots of lows and at some point, you just are…[Continue Reading...]
How can you tell if an organization is a cult? The answer lies in the level of dogmatism. The higher the level of certainty about a multitude of topics, the more likely it’s a cult. The more the cult member…[Continue Reading...]
Barefoot girls hold a ribbon and loop around a maypole. Some, styled as the “Little Lambs,” dance for the hundreds gathered at the 15-acre Timonium estate known as The Farm. There are pony rides, potato-sack races, even a live band…[Continue Reading...]
“Are you the people who don’t have blood transfusions?” was the first thing most people asked if any of us mentioned our religion. We weren’t supposed to say “yes”, because we weren’t meant to allow our faith to be defined…[Continue Reading...]
"I have been pleasantly surprised," she tells HELLO!, adding: "It's just always a scary thing to talk about and I think the biggest thing is not wanting you or your heart to be misunderstood, so it's really lovely to hear that…[Continue Reading...]
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