July 28th - New Zion

Sometimes all you need is a pastoral about an imaginary cult. A quiet idyll about the charismatic movement when it's become less charismatic, when you're not even desperate to get away, it's just a minor irritation of your day.

That's in a sense when a cult really dies, isn't it? We think it's when it turns from being a place people love to a place people fear, but you can keep people together with fear. You might even be able to turn them back towards love if you're clever. But if you're just an irritation, just something that drags on their day a bit but doesn't really matter. Well, there's no coming back from that.