He's celibate, wears traditional robes...and he's living on a hallway of boisterous freshmen in a student dorm. We meet the first Hindu chaplain (and monk) to serve as a chaplain at an American university.

If you had to choose, would you save your own drowning child, or three drowning strangers? Larissa MacFarquhar introduces us to people who refuse to draw the line at helping their own.

We learn about people who take good works to the limit, even if it means doing less for friends and family... and we hear from a Hindu priest living in a freshman dorm.

More stories of people raised inside insular religious groups. In this hour: escapes from an apocalyptic 'cult,' a New Age sect and the most hated church in America.

The 40ish members of the Westboro Baptist Church take hate speech to a scary new level, picketing the funerals of soldiers and even children. So, who are these people?

On March 15th, 1990, nearly 800 members of the Church Universal and Triumphant braced themselves for the end of the world by nuclear holocaust. Then midnight struck ... and nothing happened.

'Snap Judgment' host Glynn Washington tells us about his formative years, waiting for the end of the world in the Worldwide Church of God.

In 2009, Luzer Twersky left the only world he had ever known, a close-knit Hasidic Jewish enclave in Brooklyn. This is an audio portrait of his first year in the secular world.

First-person accounts of people who grew up inside insular religious groups. In this episode: escapes from an Orthodox Jewish enclave, a polygamous sect and a Wiccan commune.

Joshua Safran was born in 1975 into a coven of radical feminist witches. He spent his early childhood as a kind of nomad, hitchhiking for thousands of miles, living in buses, vans, and one time, an ice cream truck.