Harrison Hill - The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps

Author Harrison Hill joins the girls to discuss his new book The Oracle's Daughter , which follows the rise and fall of a small cult called the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps. He explains what the religious landscape in America looked like at the time, with the spiritual awakening and unrest of the 60s transitioning into a new Christianity movement, and how this group's leader Lila Carter (who later became Deborah Greene) began her spiritual journey on a commune called the Bear Tribe. They discuss the beginnings of Lila's own visions, moaning and grunting and giving birth to what she called "spiritual soldiers," how her following grew, and the parallels between her and Shaker leader Ann Lee. Naturally, the group became more controlling and cruel over time, changing people's names to words like "Despised," using physical punishment on its members, and even kidnapping a baby. And finally, they touch on how Lila's daughter Sarah, the subject of the book, found her own way through all of this, eventually leaving and sharing her story of survival. SOURCES The Oracle's Daugher: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult The Cut - How Sarah Greene Escaped Her Mother's Cult

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Harrison Hill - The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps is an episode from Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and the Abuse of Power by iHeartPodcasts.

This episode is 58:19 long.

This episode was published on Apr 8, 2026.

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