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Fear undeniably influences human social interactions and has at times shaped religious beliefs and practices throughout human ...

Leaders influenced by William Branham have overseen a deadly starvation cult in Kenya in 2023 and a trailer-park commune in ...

Although William Branham died in 1965, millions of people worldwide still follow his teachings. The sect has expanded, in ...

Five years after the Satanic Temple of the United States made headlines — and unleashed a wave of panic — when it was ...

The Republican presidential nominee has pledged enhanced access to the White House. “It will be directly into the Oval Office — and me.” By Elizabeth Dias As voters head to the polls on ...

The Supreme Court had outlawed school-sponsored prayer and Bible readings and had legalized abortion. In response, religious figures began to organize around the idea that they had a duty to bring ...

Thirty-two plaintiffs filed the request on Thursday, contending the mandate violates the Oklahoma Constitution’s ban of state-established religion. They asked the justices to deem the requirements ...

The LLM was reportedly trained on internet bullshit from 4chan and Reddit and somehow remixed that into a bizarre memetic “religion” around the gross “goatse” meme of a stretched anus ...

As religious leaders struggle to navigate how to address their congregants on matters related to the intersection of faith, doctrine, and politics, some person or group inevitably complains that a ...

I find enormous satisfaction looking back over the last 20 years and saying the Lord established us, preserved us, and he’s growing us. That’s extraordinary, coming out of a meltdown of the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has sought to motivate faith voters with her “souls to the polls” effort in Black churches, but she has also become her own worst enemy with misfires on religion ...