Just say no: The four-letter word religion writers really want to avoid

Panel at Religion News Association meeting tackles use of the term 'cult'

by Bobby Ross Jr.

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BETHESDA, Md.— “Don’t Call It a Cult.”

That was the title of one of the mor…