Erika Lantz & Elin Lantz Lesser - Book Burnings, Rapture Drills, & the River Road Fellowship

<p>Guests Erika Lantz and Elin Lantz Lesser join to discuss season 3 of their investigative podcast The Turning, which follows the journey of a young woman named Lindsay, a former member of a Christian group in Minnesota called River Road Fellowship. They talk about the background of the leader Victor Bernard, how Lindsay&rsquo;s parents moved the family to the cult compound, and what it was like living there&mdash;with rapture drills that required the members to never venture far from the compound, a massive bonfire designed to destroy the members&rsquo; attachments to their pasts, and other forms of strict control.&nbsp;</p> <p>They discuss how Lindsay was selected as a teenager to be one of Victor&rsquo;s ten &ldquo;maidens,&rdquo; a group of girls and women living next to his lodge who were subjected to coerced labor and eventually sexual exploitation in what Lindsay only later learned was meant to be a lifelong commitment, the escape plans she was making, and how glimpses of the o...