The Moonies Pt. 2

Lisa Joins a Cult

Welcome, welcome, welcome, one and all.

You’re listening to the inaugural episode of Lisa Joins a Cult.

A show that explores the world of cultic organizations through real life encounters and lived-in research.

In each episode you’ll hear a conversation about a group Lisa VanArsdale has infiltrated in her curious quest to understand faith and the belief systems of others. Joining Lisa in these conversations is co-host Syran Warner, a journalist who’s brought a number of obscure cult stories into the public imagination.

Today, we’ll be hearing the second installment of a discussion about the unification church, whose members are commonly known as the moonies. In the last episode we learned about the group’s history and were introduced two the two factions of the that are currently active in America. This week we’ll be jumping straight into Lisa’s personal encounters with both sects and we’ll find out how she found herself on a gun range in Pennsylvania with a cult leader.

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