Harrison Hill - The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
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.
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The Oracle’s Daugher: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:07.6 | Trust me. Do you trust me? |
| 0:10.8 | Would I ever lead you astray? |
| 0:12.3 | Trust me. |
| 0:13.2 | This is the truth. The only truth. |
| 0:15.8 | If anybody ever tells you to just trust them, don't. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, |
| 0:24.9 | a manipulation from two spiritual soldiers who've actually experienced it. I'm Lola Blanc, and I'm Megan |
| 0:31.5 | Elizabeth, a spiritual soldier to my core. To your core. This week, writer Harrison Hill joins us to discuss his new book, |
| 0:40.6 | The Oracle's Daughter, which follows the rise and fall of a small cult called the aggressive |
| 0:45.5 | Christianity missions training court. Whoa. It's quite a mouthful. Yeah. He explains what the |
| 0:51.0 | religious landscape in America looked like at the time, with the unrest of the |
| 0:54.9 | 60s transitioning into a new Christianity movement, and how this group's leader, Lila Carter, |
| 0:59.9 | who later became Deborah, began her spiritual journey on a commune called the Bear Tribe. |
| 1:05.7 | The bear tribe is something I would probably join. We'll discuss the beginning of Lila's |
| 1:10.1 | own visions of giving birth to what she |
| 1:12.2 | called spiritual soldiers, how her following grew, and the parallels between her and Shaker leader, |
| 1:19.1 | Anne Lee. We'll talk about how the group became more controlling and cruel over time, |
| 1:24.4 | changing people's names to words like despised, using physical punishment on its |
| 1:29.6 | members and even kidnapping a baby. And finally, we'll touch on how Lila's daughter, Sarah, |
| 1:36.1 | the subject of Harrison's book, found her way out. Very inspiring story. Lots to dive into, |
| 1:43.1 | before we do that diving, since we're professional divers. |
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