cult/new religious movements

If you’ve been online at any point in the past year—if not, welcome!—your aimless clicks and doomscrolling may have brought you glimpses of the “world” of QAnon : the conspiracy theory that argues…

Despite an American Idol judging gig, a baby girl with Orlando Bloom on the way, and her new album Smile due out August 28 th , Katy Perry hasn’t been capturing the public’s attention like she did…

How completely de-Christianized and secularized has Western Europe become? Data from the EU tell a tale of radically declining Christian belief and participation. The numbers of those attending Sunday…

Fundamentalist Christian support for President Trump is a commonly known, if poorly understood, political dynamic in the United States today. That support sometimes takes surprising shape to outsiders…

In scary and uncertain times, many people turn to higher powers— for good reason . Christians like myself pray, meditate, and appeal to the Creator in unique and varied ways, but we must keep in mind…

I want to say that reading this Politico piece on the Trump administration’s predictably botched response to the emerging coronavirus pandemic puts me in mind of a cult organization. I want to, but…

It is perhaps unsurprisingly rare for anyone to talk about Goop, New Agers, and the world of wellness as offering trenchant critiques of neoliberal capitalism. But let’s try. Netflix’s The Goop Lab…

Though an estimated 70% of the overall population supports nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, and a new survey shows that a majority of every religious group agrees, there remains at least one significant hurdle.

Documentaries have always been artificial constructs blurring the line between fact and fiction, but new developments have changed the stakes.

The deadly “dance plague” of 1518 took place in a rapidly changing world where suddenly old verities were in question and a new media brought all manner of unconfirmed, superstitious ideas. Sound familiar?