Cults

VFTB Live: Tony Kail – Narco-Cults and the Drug War

By: Derek

On: December 30, 2018

In: A View From the Bunker, Podcast, VFTB Live

Tony Kail, Southern Regional Coordinator of the Symbol Intelligence Group and author of Narco-Cults, joins us to explain how drug cartels use African religions and Latin-American cults to give them a supernatural edge in the ongoing drug war.Continue Reading

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Mormon temple in Salt Lake City

VFTB 095: Mormonism and Christianity

By: Derek

On: December 4, 2011

In: A View From the Bunker, Podcast

With: 6 Comments

AS OF this writing, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is still considered a leading candidate to win the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Assuming President Obama runs for reelection, to many conservative Christians this would mean choosing between a socialist and a member of a cult. Is that fair? Continue Reading

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This Is My Body by Keith Giles

VFTB Live: How and Why We Believe

By: Derek

On: June 4, 2011

In: Podcast, VFTB Live

With: 3 Comments

WHAT WE believe determines how we live. Do you know why you or your church does what it does? Keith Giles joins us to discuss his new book, This is My Body: Ekklesia as God Intended, which expores the difference between church as we know it and ekklesia the way GodContinue Reading

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VFTB 078: Santa Muerte — Mexico’s Mysterious “Saint Death”

By: Derek

On: March 12, 2011

In: A View From the Bunker, Podcast

With: 0 Comments

A STRANGE cult that worships a Grim Reaper-like figure called Santa Muerte — Saint Death — is spreading northward from Mexico. It’s not well understood by most religious observers, and it’s beliefs and practices are morphing almost right before our eyes. It seems to have special appeal to the downtrodden,Continue Reading

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