I stumbled across Cult News a weblog run by the person behind the Rick A. Ross Institute For the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups, and Movements (RRI). The institute, which seems legitimate, also seems overly focused on providing expert witness testimony in various court cases.

Cult News, which is very well put together, is a fantastic resource of information about various cults, which RRI is careful to say are not always destructive. The most recent entry is about the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints community headed by Warren Jeffs’. Jeffs is on the FBI’s most wanted list for arranging polygamist marriages of older men with very young girls — as young as 12 or 13. There’s a $50,000 reward out for Jeffs, who is building a troubling compound on a ranch in Texas — it reminds everyone of Waco. I’ve been following this story for a while, and the summary on Cult News is very comprehensive.