cults

Each course has seven sessions and is designed around the Serendipity formula of group building, starting off light and moving deeper in sharing as the group is ready.

They knock politely. You answer, and find well-groomed, friendly faces of solid young people. They are the strangers at your door, peddling their own interpretation of Scripture, and not-so-subtly attacking the Faith by which you live.

Scholarly eighteen-year-old Paula and her merchant father journey from Transylvania to Istanbul to buy an ancient pagan artifact rumored to be charmed; but others, including a handsome Portuguese pirate and an envoy from the magical Wildwood, want to acquire the item as well.

When the three child survivors of unrelated plane crashes on different continents begin to exhibit increasingly disturbing behavior, a religious cult leader claims that they are harbingers of the apocalypse.

Francesca Dunn, an adolescent child of divorce, is serving meals in a shelter when Chester, a homeless man, begins worshipping her because of a vision he had, and Francesca must deal with hordes of followers, a profiteering friend, her scientist mother, and Chester, who believes he is her protector.

Contains essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to cults.

After his older brother is killed, David turns to anger and his parents to religion, but just as David's life is beginning to make sense again his parents press him and his sister to join them in cutting worldly ties to prepare for the Rush, when the faithful will be whisked off to heaven.