Takeaways From AP’s Report Updating the Cult Massacre That Claimed Hundreds of Lives in Kenya
The evangelical leader of Good News, Paul Mackenzie, is accused of instructing his followers to starve to death for the opportunity to meet Jesus.
IRS: The Satanic Temple is a Real Religion
(RNS) — The Satanic Temple announced this week that the IRS now recognizes it as a church. As courts wrestle with the First Amendment implications of what is — and isn’t — a religion, scholars who study religion agreed that the term is slippery.
Tom Brady, Alex Guerrero and Apocalypse Meow — When Weird Belief Turns Harmful
(RNS) — A few years ago I went to the grocery store and ran into some cultists.
They didn’t look like end-times cultists at the time.