Paul Mackenzie, the self-proclaimed Kenyan pastor who shocked the country and the world after he drove his followers into mass "starvation suicide," has been charged with murder and terrorism. On Jan.

I watched my father fade away. Helpless, pained and traumatised, I held him in my hands and tried to rock him to sleep like I had done so many times before. A weak smile crawled across his shriveled ...

Historian Stephen Davies provides a good explanation of why fringe "cultic milieu" ideas are growing in influence. It's a troubling development, but not one that should lead us to categorically abjure ...