Episode 61: What's Happening in the Cultiverse May 2025

There’s a lot going on in the cultiverse! We thought it time for an update on the culty happenings in our neck of the woods. In this episode you'll hear more than you want to know about chickens, rats, and mice, and heaps about cults. From news from the Olive Leaf Network, to Caz's connections with professionals & researchers, to Liz sharing culty tree metaphors with professionals on the West Coast. This episode has everything, including some really odd census data about Gloriavale!

Show notes:

• Webpage: Olive Leaf Network and how to donate

• Webpage: International Cultic Studies Association home page and Montreal annual conference  

• Podcast: Cult Chat Episode 58: 2x2s and Survivor Advocacy with Tristan Phipps and Kyle Eggleton

• Podcast: Cult Chat Episode 55, 56 and 57 - Are the Jehovah Witnesses a Cult? (Parts one and two) and Waking Up  - with Dr Andre Jackson

• Article: One News coverage of Two By Twos

• Article: Inquiry into cults prompted by media attention on Geelong Revival Centre in Victoria. 

• Facebook group: Stop Religious Coercion Australia run by Ryan Carey

• Podcast: Secrets We Keep - Pray Harder - series about Geelong Revival Centre

• Article: BBC - Japan court dissolves controversial 'Moonies' church

• Article - The Saints cult and the convictions for the manslaughter of 8 years old Elizabeth Struhs - Brisbane

• Religious Trauma Collective and the on-line conference

• Webpage: Theophila Pratt - Unveiled - A Story of Surviving Gloriavale

Article: Press -  Gloriavale population falls while 100 babies born, census shows