Liz Cameron, Part 1 - Jesus Morning Star aka JMS: A Bookstore, a Bible Study Group, and a Prophet on Earth
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week is part one with Liz Cameron, survivor of South Korean religious sect Jesus Morning Star (aka JMS, aka Providence), and author of Cult Bride: How I Was Brainwashed – and How I Broke Free. She explains how her entry into JMS began with being approached by a woman in a bookstore for a harmless survey, and how that survey turned into a bible study group full of women who gained her trust and introduced her to their new and exciting Christian church.
Liz shares how the group began encouraging her to spend more and more time together and get up earlier and earlier, and how they painted her old church, community, and even family as people who weren’t dedicated enough to Jesus–all as they slowly introduced the idea of an incredibly spiritually devoted man they called Pastor Joshua.
Next week: we’ll get into how they began to reveal who Pastor Joshua really was (hint: his name was Jung Myung-seok), his criminal history, and how a god on earth could be sitting in a prison in Korea.
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| 0:49.6 | The only truth. If anybody ever tells you to just trust them, don't! Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about |
| 0:57.6 | cult's extreme belief and manipulation from two early risers who've actually experienced it. I am |
| 1:03.7 | Lola Blanc and I am Megan Elizabeth. Today our guest is Liz Cameron. This is part one with her. She is a survivor of the JMS cult, |
| 1:14.3 | aka Jesus Morning Star, and author of Cult Bride, How I Was Brainwashed, and How I Broke Free. |
| 1:20.6 | So in part one today, she's going to talk to us about how she was first approached by a woman in a bookstore to do a survey |
| 1:25.4 | and how that survey turned into a Bible study group full of |
| 1:29.0 | women who gained her trust and introduced her to their new and exciting church. |
| 1:33.1 | She'll explain how they began encouraging her to spend more and more time together, get up |
| 1:38.4 | earlier and earlier, and painted her old church community and even family as people who weren't dedicated enough to Jesus, |
| 1:47.0 | all as they slowly introduced the idea of an incredibly spiritually devoted man they called Pastor Joshua. |
| 1:55.5 | And next week we will talk more about Pastor Joshua and his criminal history. |
| 1:59.5 | And it is something. |
| 2:02.0 | It's really something. |
| 2:03.6 | Yeah, the story is, it reaches like nightmare status for me. |
| 2:09.0 | So. |
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