Hello, friends! Welcome to Part 17 of my something-part series “Better Know a Speaker!” Today’s speaker: Glenn Davis, the fighting Glenn Davis!

Glenn Davis is an advertising creative director living in Columbus, Ohio. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years, where he became a devotee of the many varieties of self-help woo on tap in that mecca of the “human potential movement.”

Since becoming a full-fledged skeptic in the early 00’s, he has had a special interest in critically examining new religious movements, self-help cults, and pop psychology trends, which he does at length in his blog, spiritualskeptic.com.

Glenn’s presentation is titled “Critical Thinking About Cults and Culture.” In it, he will examine a few things. First, what drives people to join cults, religions, and borderline cults like Alcoholics Anonymous and Landmark Education? Second, why do we put “mainstream religions” into a separate category and give them a free pass when they exhibit similar characteristics to cults like the Church of Scientology? Third, if we discard belief in the supernatural, is there anything left that might be beneficial about being a member of a religious or ‘applied philosophy’ group?

Only a few speakers left to go! We’ve hit the home stretch!

–Speaker Conjurer Don

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