Charmain Speirs was 40 years old when she met prophet Eric Adusah. For several years Charmain had been part of one of the fastest-growing Christian movements in the world, Pentecostalism. Through her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bateman’s rise was made possible by a leadership void. When FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for ...

It’s been 20 years since Warren Jeffs, the “prophet” who ran the cult-like polygamist Mormon offshoot the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Short Creek, Utah, was arrested ...

In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence Film-making effects change. Director Rachel Dretzin, a former ...

A man who declared himself a prophet and the heir to an imprisoned cult leader is the subject of a new Netflix documentary that follows a couple exposing his crimes. Samuel Bateman represented himself ...

In a busy space shared with five other students, fifth-year University of Oregon BFA student Silas Cassidy sits in a windowless corner of Millrace studios, surrounded by paint-splattered floors and ...