Category Archives: Personal Stories

‘The Fucked up Brady Bunch’ on Falling Out

Elgen Strait starts the second season of his podcast ‘Falling Out’ with a reunion of the contributors for the first series. This three hour conversation features the collaborative story-telling skills of eight ex-moonies making sense of their past:

The Purity Knife: Sex, death and human trafficking in the Unification Church – Jen Kiaba

Blog post by Jen Kiaba about her experience on the Special Task Force in USA:: https://www.summerofcheesecake.com/2015/08/sex-death-human-trafficking-unification-church.html

Toxic Positivity and the Thought Terminating Cliche: Lessons on Leaving with Jen Kiaba

Jen looks at the methods of indoctrination used by the church and how thought stopping language is used as a method of control. This article is also available as a podcast. https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving/toxic-positivity-thought-terminating-cliche

To The Moon and Back: Lisa Kohn’s memoir

Lisa’s mother joined the church when Lisa was a child, making her a ‘Jacob’s Child.’, inferior to the born and raised ‘blessed children.’. In her memoir, Lisa describes her early life with the Moon family children and her experience of abandonment while her mother took care of ‘blessed children’ instead of her own.

Elgen Strait on the Ares Meyer Podcast

Elgen talks to Ares about his realisations as he left the church, and why he started the Falling Out podcast. 5. Elgen background. New Yorker Hotel. 9. DC church. 12. Double life and True Parents pictures 21. Cheon il guk card and being witnessed to. 29 STF and Blessing. 39. Lancaster Gate and moon daughter livingContinue reading “Elgen Strait on the Ares Meyer Podcast”