The Jerusalem Syndrome is a usually temporary but sometimes permanent condition that affects religious pilgrims - mostly Christian, but occasionally Jews - who begin to exhibit strange behavior while touring holy sites, sometimes proclaiming that they are ancient religious figures sent on a mission.

When you ’sow seed’ (in plain English: give money) to Todd Bentley, you’ll benefit from his “Deep Thoughts.”

Todd Bentley’s meetings in Lakeland, Florida, are billed as “The Florida Outpouring.” Some view it as the next ‘wave’ after the Toronto Blessing and the Pensacola Brownsville Revival.

Todd Bentley and the people he surrounds himself with talk about messages they claim to receive from angels.

Michael Rood is a self-proclaimed Messianic preacher who was ordained as a Christian minister in The Way International (TWI). Rood has continued many of the themes and practices which made TWI theologically a cult of Christianity.

Research resources on Michael Rood and his ‘Rood Awakening’

Tucked away in the shadow of fortress-like mountains of southeast British Columbia, the town of Bountiful has managed to somehow avoid the wrath of Canadian law for over 50 years despite openly practising polygamy.

Winston Blackmore was bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Canada until Warren Jeffs muscled him and others out of the way to become prophet in September 2002. Jeffs then excommunicated Blackmore, splitting the community of Bountiful nearly in half — about 700 people continue to follow Blackmore, while about 500 follow Jeffs.

The Bountiful case has wide ramifications for Canadian law: If British Columbia charges either or both of Bountiful’s leaders, Winston Blackmore and Jim Oler, with the criminal offence of practising polygamy and loses, it opens the door for the free practise of plural marriage in the guise of religion. If B.C. loses, it could even open the door to other repugnant practices, such as female genital mutilation. Certainly, Muslim groups are anxiously watching to see what happens.

Wearing heavy pastel-colored dresses buttoned up to the neck and reaching down to the ground, their hair pinned up into tight, tall waves, the women of the FLDS sect look as if they had stepped out of another century. What are the reasons behind their odd style of dress?

Fresh Fire Ministries is headed by Todd Bentley, a Canadian preacher with a ‘Toronto Blessing’ type ministry.

A list of polygamous sects — most of them offshoots of the Mormon Church.

Flora Jessop is a former member — and current critic — of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).

Research resources on Flora Jessop.

Summum, a religion founded in 1975 in Utah, USA, is based on gnosticism.

According to Summum, Moses received two sets of tablets. Before the Commandments, church doctrine says, he was given the “seven aphorisms” of a higher law. The Summum website says those relate to psychokinesis (the power of the mind to control objects); correspondence; vibration; opposition; rhythm; cause and effect; and gender.

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A sect of the Russian Orthodox Church is awaiting the end of the world — which it claims will take place in May, 2008.

The Quran states that Muslims, Jews and Christians worship the same God. However, when compared with the Jewish and Christian scriptures, the teachings of Quran show that Allah is not the same God worshipped by Jews and Christians.

Issues, Etc. has been canceled — its host and producer summarily fired.