How Cults are Cultivated

Control. Contain. Convert.

Once upon a time, I was a young man living in the heart of the American Bible Belt, seeking truth and meaning in a world of dogma and doctrine. As I ascended to a loveable, award-winning, aspiring pastor, I found myself on both sides of the cult dynamic - as both, a leader and a follower of American evangelicalism - and slowly, but surely, began to trul…