Media and Speaking
Media
Paul Cooke is available for TV, radio and print media interviews, and is willing to provide written articles on the themes listed below for online and hard copy publications.
1) Cults: what they are, how to recognize them, who joins and why, getting out and recovery, rooted in my personal experience in the Children of God (1969-1979) and subsequent extensive study of cults
2) Linking cults to the social and cultural contexts from which they have emerged and are still emerging
3) Distinguishing Christian-seeming cults from genuine biblical Christianity, and the status and content of evangelical Christianity
4) Achieving biblical literacy
5) Review of non-fiction works relating to contemporary American culture
6) Issues related to graduate studies and life in the American university based in my four years at Brown University, nine years at Harvard and eleven at the University of Houston
Speaking
Available for conferences and talks on any of the six themes listed above