Tag: cults

Read Pete Haug's latest commentary about Breaking free from the influence of cultish thinking vs. cultural conditioning to discover the importance of independent thought and self-reliance.

Mark Driscoll recreates his now defunct Seattle Mars Hill Church into the Trinity Church in the Arizona desert. And he hasn't changed his abusive style.

As we wrote about before, Tracy Simmons is no stranger to cults, and now anyone can watch her TEDxSpokane 2020 talk, “The Cult Next Door,” on YouTube.

Tracy Simmons is no stranger to cults. In fact, she grew up in one but didn’t know it at the time. This is the subject of her upcoming virtual TEDxSpokane 2020 talk on Saturday.

California Institute of Technology psychologist Jon-Patrik Pedersen, in attempting to explain why people are drawn to cults, has argued that the human desire for comfort, in the face of fear and uncertainty, leads us to seek outlets that can soothe our anxieties.