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News and Opinion

Is cult author Steven Hassan embellishing and/or exaggerating his bio?

Author Steven Hassan, who writes and speaks about groups called "cults," has a personal history of cult involvement. Hassan was in the Unification Church ("Moonies") founded by Sun Myung Moon for two years in the 1970s. And his origin story includes a dramatic "deprogramming" intervention arranged by his parents. However, it... More

Recent Additions

• Brother of LDS apostle pleads guilty to sexually abusing enticing minors in Ohio and Utah
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• Supreme Court upholds prison terms for shaman ex Unification Church official
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• These people arent my family How Maria Esguerra escaped a cult to save her children
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• Saskatchewan village celebrates new beginning without Queen of Canada cult
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