Oct 2, 2024
JMS Cult Leader, Who Sexually Assaulted Three Women, Gets Sentence Reduced to 17 Years
Oct 1, 2024
Scott Homan's film "Witness Underground"
Seagrams Heirs Unable to Shake All Claims Linked to Sex Cult
Sep 30, 2024
Dhyana Levey is the next speaker we're pleased to announce in the lead-up to Decult 2024!
Rachel Lees, an IBLP survivor
sic Life Principles (IBLP). As one of the whistle-blowers which led to the downfall of the Christofascist organisation and resignation of the leader, and then filing a lawsuit against Gothard in 2015, Rachel withstood many personal attacks against her. She is finally pursuing her academic education in the Social Sciences to write and speak more on predatory grooming and the healing that comes from the pursuit of justice.
Sep 29, 2024
The Children of the Cult
Sep 26, 2024
Apostasy Conference 2024 – The Systemic Nature of Religious Abuse | Faith to Faithless
An online conference for academics and practitioners who care about the needs of apostates. The theme of the Apostasy Conference 2024 is 'The Systemic Nature of Religious Abuse.'
The conference will have two halves. The first half will have the theme of how some religions create rape culture and how this impacts apostates. And the second half will talk about how some UK state policies facilitate or obscure religious abuses (all forms of religious abuse, not just sexual) and how this impacts apostates.
Keynote speaker
Pragna Patel, Co-founder and co-director of Project Resist
Religious abuse in South Asian contexts
Dr Kristin Aune, Professor of Sociology of Religion at Coventry University
Christianity and Domestic Abuse
Dr James Murphy, The Open University
Leaving a High-Control Religion: Legacies of Trauma
Alexander Barnes-Ross
From Apostate to Activist: How Scientology gets away with abuse in the UK
Rachael Reign
Abuses within the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG)
Zara Kay
Addressing Religious Trauma and Apostasy Laws Impacting ex-Muslims
Yehudis Fletcher
Replicating and Reiterating Harm: how UK state policies enable abuse within high-control religions.
We will be announcing more names very shortly.