Introducing The Turning: River Road (Season 3)

The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Documentary, Philosophy

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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When the most vulnerable within a community go unprotected, how can they find the strength to push their way out?

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0:00.0	I knew I wanted to obey and submit because I didn't want to get in trouble, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant.
0:15.1	For My Heart Podcasts in Rococo Punch, this is the Turning, River Road.
0:21.5	And then he put the rings on our hands.
0:24.5	To be worn on our ring fingers, it doesn't fit anymore.
0:27.7	This is all it goes on now.
0:29.7	It doesn't even pass your second knuckle now.
0:32.6	Nope.
0:33.2	So tiny.
0:34.9	Yeah, I was just a kid.
0:38.9	In the early 2000s in rural Minnesota,
0:42.3	Lindsay became one of the maidens of River Road Fellowship.
0:45.8	She was 13 years old.
0:48.1	A ritualistic ceremony married her and nine other girls to their adult leader.
0:53.2	And for years, they all endured a secret life of physical and mental abuse.
0:58.3	It all happened in their community of 150 people, believers on a commune who saw their leader as an
1:03.7	apostle, like God in the flesh.
1:06.5	They followed his command for decades.
1:09.3	Why did I think that way?
1:10.9	Why did I allow myself to get so sucked in by this man
1:14.9	and thinking to the point that if I died for him,
1:17.3	that would be the greatest honor.
1:19.6	I don't care what happens when Jesus Christ comes back.
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