Shiny Happy Catholics

A few thoughts on the Duggars documentary

When I was 20, I briefly interned at a charity which compiled data about “new religious movements” (NRMs) - aka cults, but this word was avoided because of the loaded connotations - in order to provide support and resources to people who had been involved with NRMs and their loved ones. We had literally thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of NRMs in …