— The Centers for Apologetics Research —

Equipping God’s people across borders and cultures

for discernment, the defense of the faith, and cult evangelism

APOLOGETICS WEB SITE REFERRALS

The following are just some of the most helpful web sites dealing with cultic and controversial religious movements and practices, organized according to their area(s) of emphasis. The inclusion of a site here does not necessarily mean that CFAR endorses all of the materials it produces and distributes — or all of the positions it may take on a variety of debatable issues.

GENERAL

Watchman Fellowship

• Web site: http://www.watchman.org

(Note: site features dozens of cult profiles and an index of many cultic groups)

Personal Freedom Outreach

• Special emphases: Word-Faith/extremist charismatic groups and personalities; Mormonism

• Web site: http://www.pfo.org/

Institute for Religious Research (Gospel Truths Ministries)

• Special emphases: Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism (including online foreign-language material)

• Web site: http://www.irr.org

Spiritual Counterfeits Project

• Special emphases: New Age/occult/eastern mystical groups

• Web site: http://www.SCP-INC.org

Apologetics Index

• Special emphases: "holy laughter" movement, Scientology, “cult apologists”

• Web site: http://www.apologeticsindex.org/

Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries

• Web site: http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/

Apologia Report

• Web site: http://apologia.org/

Alpha & Omega Ministries

• Special emphases: Mormonism, Roman Catholicism

• Web site: http://www.aomin.org

Christian Apologetics Research Ministry

• Special emphases: Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Christadelphianism

• Web site: http://www.carm.org

Answers in Action

• Web site: http://www.answers.org

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society)

Comments from the Friends

• Web site: http://www.ultranet.com/~comments/

Freeminds (formerly known as Bethel Ministries)

• Web site: http://www.freeminds.org/

Witness, Inc.

• Web site: http://www.witnessinc.com/

MORMONISM (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Utah Lighthouse Ministry

• Web site: http://www.utlm.org

Mormonism Research Ministry

• Web site: http://www.mrm.org

Institute for Religious Research (Gospel Truths Ministries) — see above

• Web site: http://www.irr.org

WATCHTOWER/RUSSELLITE SPLINTER MOVEMENTS

• Web site: http://www.nowthink.com

LOCAL CHURCH/LIVING STREAM MINISTRY (Witness Lee)

Light of Truth Ministries

• Web site: http://www.ltm.org

INTERNATIONAL CHURCHES OF CHRIST (Boston Movement)

• Web site: http://members.aol.com/djrtx/rsrchlnk.htm

• Web site: http://www.reveal.org

THE FAMILY (Children of God)

• Web site: http://countercog.excult.org

• Web site: http://www.geocities.com/magicgreenshirt/noregrets.htm

MISCELLANEOUS APOLOGETICS

Douglas Groothuis (Denver Seminary)

• Web site: www.gospelcom.net/ivpress/groothuis

Ravi Zacharias Ministries

• Web site: http://www.rzim.com/

SECULAR CULT RESOURCE ORGANIZATIONS

American Family Foundation

• Web site: http://www.csj.org

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IGLESIA NI CRISTO

• Web site: http://www.examineiglesianicristo.com

NEW AGE / OCCULTISM

• Web site: http://cana.userworld.com