“Cults” Articles

Wait! Conspiracies happen all the time! Why are people so down on conspiracy theories these days?

Even if your inward-facing, self-replicating church—or Mandalorian group, for that matter—never becomes a cult, in my experience, it can (and does) start to get weird.

The thing about lies is that eventually they have to give out. No matter how badly liars want truth to be relative—it isn’t.

Netflix’s new documentary miniseries Wild Wild Country tries to get to the bottom of a 1980s dispute between a religious commune and the Oregon community next door. Also the Nick Offerman-starring Hearts Beat Loud, a feel-good indie movie about a dad trying to get the band back together with his college-bound daughter.

While Protestants want to call every believer a saint, we reserve a particular esteem for some of our more public faithful.

We are inexplicably drawn to shiny new things that make us laugh, inspire, evoke hope, or instill a sense of status.

” . . . their debut album is a surprisingly honest look at the dichotomy between light and dark that is raging within all of us.”