https://www.ted.com/talks/lilia_tarawa_i_grew_up_in_a_cult_it_was_heaven_and_hell
Lilia Tarawa was brought up in the Gloriavale Christian Community on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, where she was constantly surrounded by everyone she loved. But over time, she began to see the dark side of her community, and ultimately realised that she had to get out. In this raw and emotional talk, Lilia shares the reality of life in a cult, and her heart-wrenching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7mBbXxJYA
Lilia Tarawa was brought up in the Gloriavale Christian Community on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, where she was constantly surrounded b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilia_Tarawa
Lilia Tarawa is a New Zealand speaker, author, entrepreneur, and influencer. Tarawa grew up in the Gloriavale Christian Community on New Zealand's West Coast, but left the community with her parents and siblings in 2009. In 2017 Tarawa published her bestselling book Daughter of Gloriavale and gave the viral TEDx talk: I grew up in a cult. It was heaven - and hell.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/989032183/after-growing-up-in-a-cult-lauren-hough-freed-herself-by-writing-the-truth
Karl Poss IV/Knopf Doubleday. Writer Lauren Hough grew up in a nomadic doomsday Christian cult called the Children of God. She says she remembers being taught animals could talk to Noah — that's

https://wpdh.com/peter-frampton-tour-2024-albany-ny/
Rock legend to perform in the area ahead of rock hall induction. Peter Frampton rose to prominence as a member of the English rock band Humble Pie. Later in his career Frampton found significant success as a solo artist. He has released several albums, including his breakthrough album, the live

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_men%27s_national_football_team_records_and_statistics
Rank Player Caps Goals Career 1 Ivan Vicelich: 88 6 1995-2013 2 Chris Wood: 74 34 2009-present 3 Simon Elliott: 69 6 1995-2011 4 Vaughan Coveny

https://hds.harvard.edu/news/video/2024/04/11/yang-scholars-2024-explorations-world-christianity
The Yang Visiting Scholars in World Christianity program brings distinguished senior and junior scholars of world Christianity to Harvard Divinity School each year, opening up fresh perspectives, particularly from the global south. This discussion was led by David N. Hempton, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, and Alonzo L. McDonald, Family Professor of Evangelical Theological

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_murder_convictions_without_a_body
A murder conviction without a body is an instance of a person being convicted of murder despite the absence of the victim's body. Circumstantial and forensic evidence are prominent in such convictions. Hundreds of such convictions have occurred in the past, some of which have been overturned. In all cases, unless otherwise noted, the remains of the victims were never recovered.

https://aleteia.org/2018/07/06/what-did-paul-vi-mean-by-saying-the-smoke-of-satan-has-entered-the-church
A letter unpublished until last year adds some clarity on the pope's torment.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity
The answer to the question lies partly in U.S. history, beginning in the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, but not ending there. Elements of racist ideology have long been present in white

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_in_poetry
Events. January Last issue of The Criterion is published; The Kenyon Review is established by John Crowe Ransom; January/February - Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism, founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first published February 17 - Gunga Din, a film directed by George Stevens, based loosely on Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name

https://theconversation.com/what-ancient-cultures-teach-us-about-grief-mourning-and-continuity-of-life-86199
Altar to the dead in Yucatán, Mexico. Daniel Wojcik, CC BY. Festivities begin on the evening of Oct. 31 and culminate on Nov. 2. Spirits of the departed are believed to be able to reenter the

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/paradise-lost-how-the-apple-became-the-forbidden-fruit
This month marks 350 years since John Milton sold his publisher the copyright of Paradise Lost for the sum of five pounds. His great work dramatizes the oldest story in the Bible, whose principal

https://intellectualtakeout.org/2018/11/the-christian-quote-that-everyone-takes-out-of-context/
To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much. Lord Illingworth makes the bold-yet-sardonic declaration that everything that has traditionally been taken seriously, all the values of polite society and Christian morality, are mere jokes. Lady Hunstanton, a moral and proper Victorian woman, claims to be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entering_heaven_alive
Judaism. In the Hebrew Bible, there are two exceptions to the general rule [which?] that humans could not go to heaven - Enoch and Elijah - but neither is clear. Genesis 5:24 mentions Enoch as one who "walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away", but it does not explicitly say whether he was alive or dead, and it does not say where God took him.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/textualizingscience/library_of_babel.html
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings. From any of the hexagons one can see, interminably, the upper and lower floors. The distribution of the galleries is invariable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/
J.G.'s despair was only heightened by his seeming lack of options. "Every person I spoke with told me there was no other way," he says. The 12 steps are so deeply ingrained in the United

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_and_the_Angry_Inch_(musical)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell.The musical follows Hedwig Robinson, a genderqueer East German singer of a fictional rock and roll band. The story draws on Mitchell's life as the child of a U.S. Army major general who once commanded the U.S. sector of occupied West Berlin.

http://www.realdevil.info/2-5.htm
2-5 Hell . The popular conception of hell is of a place of punishment for wicked 'immortal souls' straight after death, or the place of torment for those who are rejected at the judgment. It is our conviction that the Bible teaches that hell is the grave, where all men go at death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_in_poetry
Events. Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell start the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry.; Conjunctions literary magazine gets its start one afternoon late this year when founding editor Bradford Morrow sits in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California talking over the idea of assembling a publication to celebrate James Laughlin, editor of New

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_post-credits_scenes
Year Title Description of scene(s) 1966 The Silencers: Matt Helm lounges on a bed with several scantily-clad women while overlain text reads: "Coming up next: Matt Helm meets Lovey Kravezit in Murderers' Row.": 1968 She-Devils on Wheels: Queen rejoins her gang waiting for her outside the town's jail and they all ride out of town for places unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloriavale_Christian_Community
gloriavale .org .nz. The Gloriavale Christian Community is a small and isolated cult located at Haupiri on the West Coast of the South Island in New Zealand. It has an estimated population of 700 as of June 2023. [1] It has operated on a property owned by the registered charitable Christian Church Community Trust since 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents_episodes
Kim Stanger (Forsythe) returns home to the U.S. after four years in Paris, hoping to reunite with his estranged father, Greg, who has not answered any of his letters.After being dropped off by local cabbie Mason (Brinegar), he runs into old acquaintance Douglas Irwin (MacReady), his sister-in-law's father, who is quite surprised to see him and tries to get Kim to call his family first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(film)
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish.The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb.The plot involves a serial killer (Mitchum) who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash