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Trinity's own Roman-like architecture is unfamiliar for a church, which might explain why some outsiders found it cultish and strange. The congregation meets in a theater-in-the round, designed after secular buildings like the Parthenon and the U.S. Congress. Stained-glass windows flanking the entrance feature images of African-American leaders, not saints: W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. There is also a glass sculpture of a man resembling Obama. Above it, light streams through block-lettered words: "VOTE. We need YOU." For now at least, Trinity may offer the only refuge...
...game of make-believe took on an entirely new dimension in 1974 after E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson created the cultish, fantasy-role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. In the mythic game--an immediate obsession for smart, geeky teenage boys everywhere--players adhere to complex rules while pretending to be wizards, warriors, elves and other medieval-era oddballs. The still popular D & D spawned TV shows, films and countless face-to-face and online imitators. Gygax, who had been in poor health...
...That Buckley was dead wrong on pretty much every major historical issue of his time—McCarthyism, civil rights, Vietnam—seems to matter little to his swooning acolytes. The National Review has floundered some in recent years, but what holds it together is an almost cultish devotion to the personality of its founding father—whether or not this was Buckley’s intention at all. Such were his charms. Similarly, while conservatism erodes today as a practical governing philosophy, a shell of the monolith that Bill built, it is alive and well...
...City lifestyle as a single woman working in central Tokyo, living alone and puffing cigs at noisy cafés, heighten Noriko's sense of entrapment. Her life is like a pachinko game: she's the silver ball, pinging between her once happy but now cultish family and her better instincts...
Ween—for those uninitiated into their somewhat cultish following—is a band that writes the kind of songs you might have written when you were 12, adopting various musical styles and rigging them up with lyrics that walk the line between juvenile and crass. Only they do it surprisingly well—most of the time, anyway. Now, on their 11th full-length album, Ween seems to have lost some of the magic that earned them a name in the alternative music genre. “La Cucaracha” focuses heavily on satirizing various musical...