Emotionally healthy spiritual leaders are hard to come by and there is just something about leading a religious flock that draws emotionally vacant, power hungry, and glory seeking manipulators, like moths to a flame.  Just as with many types of abuses, there is a spectrum of intensity and hurt that befalls victims of spiritual abuse, but how can we identify and avoid leaders like these?

Shortly after I started working for a Christian Bible camp, I got called into the Executive Director’s office. I had always wanted to...

Anna Kitko is a cult and new religions specialist with Ratio Christi, where she serves as the campus apologist at the University of...

Whether we are aware of it or not, we all more than likely know someone who has or is experiencing religious harm on one level or...

He loved to sing. He had a rare singing voice that could have opened many musical doors had he chosen to knock on them. Tears would fill...

Heartbreakingly, this isn’t new. Perhaps it is new to you, but it isn’t new to me and it isn’t new to history. And it isn’t exclusive to...