A woman who appeared on Louis Theroux's documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, has completely turned her life around. Back in 2007, Theroux visited the Westboro Baptist Church, in Kansas, where he unpacked their extreme and very uncomfortable beliefs…[Continue Reading...]
One summer’s evening in 2003, my partner Bill and I attended a workshop at a house just south of San Francisco. The event was designed to help you tap into your true, instinctive sexual desire. It was there that I…[Continue Reading...]
There is a nondescript house on Brookfield Drive in East Lansing, Michigan, whose address I forget though I remember everything else about it. It’s where I lived for almost three years in the 1970s as part of a religious group…[Continue Reading...]
Cait West spent a lot of time at home growing up. She was home-schooled and wasn't allowed out. She didn't have boyfriends or hang out with friends. She wasn't allowed to. On the surface, this isn't particularly remarkable. After all,…[Continue Reading...]
The niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige has revealed eerie details about a song she claimed she was taught while growing up inside what she called 'the cult'. Jenna Miscavige, 40, posted a clip of herself singing the lyrics while…[Continue Reading...]
Inka Winter has no memories of the day she arrived at the commune as a tiny child. After her father abandoned the family, her mother had to seek work in Berlin, so four-year-old Inka was left at the headquarters of…[Continue Reading...]
More than 50,000 people belong to a global religious sect that has restrictions around television, eating with outsiders and attending university. Some who've left the church say they still carry the trauma of what they experienced there. Members from that…[Continue Reading...]
On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik carried out the worst terror attack in Norway's history, detonating a bomb in Oslo before gunning down scores of civilians at a youth event nearby. The victims were young as…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
Sarah Edmondson is a former member and whistleblower of Nxivm, a cult disguised as a self-help organization run by Keith Raniere, a convicted sex offender. Edmondson was part of the group for 12 years and cofounded the organization's center in…[Continue Reading...]
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