Selected Professional Positions:

• Professor of Sociology, Westmont College, 1965-present
• Social Science Editor, Christian Scholar's Review, 1987-90
• Adjunct Faculty Member, Fuller Theological Seminary

Other Professional Experience:

• Expert witness in various court cases involving modern cults
• Appearances on numerous television and radio broadcasts, including "Oprah," "NBC Nightly News," and "Day of Discovery," as expert cult consultant
• Worldwide seminar leader on new religious movements

Areas of Expertise:

• Sociology of Religion
• New Religious Movements
• Sociology of Deviant Behavior
• Social Problems

Awards:

• Faculty Researcher of the Year, Westmont College, 1994
• Teacher of the Year for the Social Sciences Division, Westmont College, 1994

Books:

• "Recovering From Churches That Abuse," Zondervan, 1994.
• "Churches That Abuse," Zondervan, 1992.
• "Evangelizing the Cults" (ed.), Servant, 1990.
• "The Lure of the Cults and New Religions," InterVarsity, 1987.
• "Why Cults Succeed Where the Church Fails," with J. Gordon Melton, Brethren, 1985.
• "A Guide to Cults and New Religions," (ed.), InterVarsity, 1983.
• "Youth, Brainwashing and the Extremist Cults," Zondervan, 1977.
• "The Gay Church," with Gerald Jamison, Eerdmans, 1974.
• "The Jesus People," with Edward E. Ericson and Calvin B. Peters, Eerdmans, 1972.

Selected Articles:

• "The Kingdom of the Cult-Watchers," Books & Culture, November/December 1998.
• "Stress-Making Churches," Christian Counseling Today, Summer 1996.
• "In the Wake of Waco," Christian Research Journal, Summer, 1993.
• "Caution: Abusive-Church Syndrome," Group Magazine, March, 1992.
• "How Can You Reach a Cultist?" Moody, November, 1987.