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Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

What Makes a Cult Leader; what makes a follower? Authors: Max Cutler and Kevin Conley Max Cutler (the founder of Parcast) and Kevin Conley team together in Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them to review the lives and rise of ten cult leaders, their cults, and their followers. The stories range from cults that function on shame, exploitation, pathological lying, sadism, megalomania, escape, and denial of reality. Cutler and Conley feature well known figures such as Charles Manson, Jim Jones, and Marshal Applewhite as well as lesser known, more far-flung groups such as [...]

2023-05-28T16:12:59-07:00May 28th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions

The Story of Augusta Author: Thomas McNamee As a feline enthusiast and official crazy cat lady (seriously, I have 8 cats and take care of a feral colony as well), I’m always looking to learn more about what makes our purring pals tick. Enter Thomas McNamee’s The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions. This nonfiction narrative promises to be a more nature-documentary-like examination of cats, something that will leverage research, study, and unbiased scientific evaluation to reveal what cats think and feel. What The Inner Life of Cats actually is, however, is the story [...]

2023-05-17T13:44:32-07:00May 15th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought

God's Radical Laws of Freedom in the Old Testament Author: Joshua Berman In Created Equal Joshua Berman focuses on the Hebrew Bible (i.e., the Old Testament to Christians) and its revolutionary sociological and political precepts. In God’s ancient covenant with Israel, He broke from the prevailing king worship and tiered social structure (think “class”) of the day, using His laws and their implementation to create a society where everyone was equal. Of course, this one sentence doesn’t get to the complexity behind how this equal society was created and just how vastly different it was from all the other social structures [...]

2022-12-11T11:22:56-07:00December 11th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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