On the anniversary of photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt's death, LIFE celebrates his life and work with 22 unforgettable pictures.
I wandered into the weird part of the internet again this morning, through the doors of a snake-handling church in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, to be specific. I stumbled upon a peculiar documentary from 1977, an in-depth portrait of a snake cult that exists still to this day, in a ti
With ORU in the NCAA Sweet 16, people are wondering, “Who is Oral Roberts?” Here is a short blog that answers that question.
We set another record for downloads on the Power Prosperity Podcast last week. A big reason was the special episode I put out on Saturday. Since it got such a huge response, let’s continue the d...
Only in LA, it seems, could a former US Marine, World War II hero and alleged bankrobber, transform himself into a natural foods restaurateur, polygamous leader of a hippie cult and vocalist for an experimental
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Eva Beem Nationality: Dutch Residence: Netherlands Death: 1944 Cause: Murdered in Auschwitz (buried in Auschwitz death camp) Age: 11 years
Name: Jan Andersen. Age: 27 Born: 21st of February 1978 Died: 14th June 2005, at Leuchtfeuer Hospice, Hamburg Jan Andersen was 19 when he discovered that he was HIV-positive. On…
Small stones at the site of the execution wall
If you watch TV evangelists I hope that this article will discourage you from doing so and that you will find a good bible believing church instead.
Name: Jan Andersen. Age: 27 Born: 21st of February 1978 Died: 14th June 2005, at Leuchtfeuer Hospice, Hamburg Jan Andersen was 19 when he discovered that he was HIV-positive. On…
For about six heady years from the end of the sixties to the mid-point of the seventies, a group of over a hundred young people known as the Source Family operated a pioneering vegetarian restauran…
There are few jobs out there that I would nearly kill for, but Mark Halpern's is one of them. As the CEO of Rock Paper Photo, Mark spends his days hunting for rare and unseen photos of all your favorite iconic rock stars, actors, and authors.
I was once a member of a cult. It was difficult for me to finally admit, but looking back I now realize that I was a water carrying, pulpit pimp protecting, twisted-scripture repeating drone. Oh, a…
Dance of Death: The Emperor, c. 1526. Hans Holbein the Younger (German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art,...
These shocking events that happened in Indiana reveal a darker side of Hoosier history!
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Model Madison Stubbington joins her flock in this spiritual (or cult as young bloggers have written) fashion editorial styled by Samuel François in ethereal femininity. Photographers Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello capture Madison in ‘Le temple du soleil’
„Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem. – – – One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. – – – It is enough that the people k…
Pythagoras, the man behind the Pythagorean theorem, was more than just a mathematician. He was a spiritual leader with followers who thought he’d been sent from Heaven. For the Pythagoreans, math was a religious experience, and some equations were divine secrets, unfit for public eyes. When your middle school teacher showed you how to find
On view in San Francisco for just a few more days are two major photography exhibitions: Ralph Eugene Meatyard at the de Young and Francesca Woodman at SFMOMA. On January 26th, Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Chief Curator at the de Young, and Corey Keller, Associate Curator of Photography at SFMOMA, talked to each other via G-chat, and discussed the two artists, their work, and their place in the history of photography.
In 1921, while attending a church service in Missouri, 14-year-old Kathryn Kuhlman had her first religious epiphany. The Holy Spirit shook up her world and she would never be the same. A committed soldier in God’s army, she wasted no time in spreading the teachings of her beloved Christ. When most teenage girls were wooing neighborhood boys, Kuhlman was traveling with evangelistic tent ministries and preaching in pool halls. Jesus was her boyfriend. By the time she was 28, Kuhlman was fronting her own revival show in a tabernacle in Denver, Colorado. But a romance with an older married minister (whom she eventually married) brought her budding religious empire crashing to the ground. It took several years and the selling of the tabernacle before she regained her mojo. When she came back, she came back strong. Kuhlman ended up in the mining town of Franklin, Pennsylvania where the pulpit of the 1500 seat Gospel Tabernacle seem designed expressly for her. The crowds grew and Kuhlman’s Denver karma evaporated like holy water in the desert. It was in Franklin that Kuhlman discovered she had the divine ability to heal people. As word spread of Kathryn Kuhlman’s miraculous ability to make...
As October closes and I have less and less excuses to indulge my darker tastes, I thought it wise to end with Sarah. Sarah had the great charm of not only being a lively sprite, indulging fully in …
4560. But Coromo was no Wolfli, although they might have had some things in common. Coromo must travel to New York, and I will tell you how he overcame his fear. It was the same solution anyone in his position discovers, he threatened himself with death. 4561. It was August. He did not solve his problem until about the middle of September. All of the time that had passed since his failure to buy his ticket one would have to describe as a state of depression, if he had been feeling anything at all. 4562. He went about his work like an automaton, and his friends and fellow workers gave up enquiring of him what might be wrong. He always said, "Nothing," it a way that indicated that it could not be so. 4563. Everyday he thought about how it would be possible to fill the void he was feeling with some new thing to replace the idea he had lost, but as he searched his mind for some clue, all the while he knew there was no point to it.
