waco

Donald Trump ’s Waco rally this past weekend was, in the end, filled with echoes of the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound —just not the kind we like to talk about. And, despite the New York…

This coming Saturday, March 25 th—one week after a hysterical all-caps social media post in which he declared that he “will be arrested on Tuesday” and called on supporters to “protest, take our…

At the Salt Lake City premiere of Under the Banner of Heaven , writer, director, and producer, Dustin Lance Black explained that the series sought to tell a broader story of Mormonism, including…

Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK publisher, didn’t receive a tremendous amount of attention in the United States —one…

Pennsylvania State Senator and retired colonel Doug Mastriano has announced his candidacy for governor. And, in keeping with his participation in the Jericho March movement, the Stop the Steal Rally…

QAnon isn’t a cult. I know we want it to be, as numerous pundits have argued . I know it would be comforting, to believe that it’s a weird fringe, in the grasp of charismatic leaders, that the people…

In the twentieth century the word “ cult ” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that people apply to a group or movement that they do not like and perhaps fear. The word “cult”…

Brother Laeo Mystwood looks at the camera, his body obscured by a 3D avatar. He is talking about the many coincidences of his life and how they led him to believe that he’s living in a computer…

Though conflicts between religious groups and the civil authorities often result in a violent outcome, activists and scientists in Hawaii have thus far managed to avoid the violence with some surprisingly simple techniques.

There must be some middle ground—not between right and wrong, but between different understandings of what constitutes abuse.