Waco is a wake-up call. If the cult watchers are to be believed, there are thousands of groups out there poised to snatch your body, control your mind, corrupt your soul. Witches' covens, satanic ...

Paul Mackenzie, the self-proclaimed Kenyan pastor who shocked the country and the world after he drove his followers into mass "starvation suicide," has been charged with murder and terrorism. On Jan.

I watched my father fade away. Helpless, pained and traumatised, I held him in my hands and tried to rock him to sleep like I had done so many times before. A weak smile crawled across his shriveled ...

Historian Stephen Davies provides a good explanation of why fringe "cultic milieu" ideas are growing in influence. It's a troubling development, but not one that should lead us to categorically abjure ...