Apr 28, 2019
In this special follow-up bonus episode to the one I recently did on "The Psychology of Conversion," I move further into developing psychiatrist Dr Robert Jay Lifton's model of cult formation.
Lifton demonstrates how, in 8 different ways and methods, cults and cult leaders operate to control and manipulate their...
Apr 19, 2019
Keeping it in the Great White North, this week I'm returning to Canada for a great conversation with Neil604--the Canadian atheist!
On his YouTube channel, Neil loves to speak with people who have left religion behind--religious deconversion, spiritual transitions, divorcing religions--whatever you'd like to...
Apr 5, 2019
In this return visit from Canadian ex-evangelical David Hayward, "The Naked Pastor," we get right into the subject of religious trauma, how evangelical churches can resemble cults, and how people can recover from the damage they may have suffered while in the system.
As a former evangelical pastor like myself, David has...