Faith Healers
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2011
Ling visits a faith healing revival in Fort Mill, S.C., run by controversial evangelist Todd Bentley. During the visit, Ling says she's challenged by what she thought she knew about faith.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2011
Ling visits a faith healing revival in Fort Mill, S.C., run by controversial evangelist Todd Bentley. During the visit, Ling says she's challenged by what she thought she knew about faith.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2011
Five transgender people in various stages of transition are profiled.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2011
Lisa Ling explores the challenges of living life on a list of registered sex offenders as she meets with ex-cons in Florida. "They're America's pariahs, pushed into the shadows," she says. Or, as one man living in a swampy campground with other offenders calls it, "the leper colony." Ling also meets a real-estate agent who finds more substantial housing for offenders who can afford it; and follows authorities as they arrest an ex-con accused of failing to register an address change.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Mar 8, 2011
"Can prayer make you straight?" Host Lisa Ling explores that notion as she observes some 1100 participants at a Freedom Conference sponsored by the evangelical organization Exodus International, which offers advice on combating same-sex attractions. "I have chosen to live my life through the filter of my faith," says Exodus president Alan Chambers, "not through the filter of my sexuality.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 15, 2011
A Texas man travels to Colombia to meet women who advertise for husbands at a marriage website.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 22, 2011
Lisa discusses the time she spent in a central Ohio town ravaged by heroin, and the connections that she made with the people along the way.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 29, 2011
Updates on the people and situations shown in previous episodes.