Strange Country Ep. 214: Moonies 2, Electric Boogaloo

In the second installment of the Moonies, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about mass marriage, rituals and how Sun Myung Moon began to cement his relationship with the New Right in America. You'll never look at indemnity sticks and handkerchiefs the same. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: Benscoter, Diane. Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie. Lucky Bat Books, 2013. Blake, Mariah. "The Fall of the House of Moon" The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2021, https://newrepublic.com/article/115512/unification-church-profile-fall-house-moon. Blake, Mariah. "EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Love Child Rev. Sun Myung Moon Desperately Tried to Hide." Mother Jones, 9 Dec. 2013, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/reverend-moon-unification-church-washington-times-secret-son/. Boyer, Jean-Francois. Johnson, R.W. "R.W. Johnson · Rising Moon · LRB 18 December 1986." London Review of Books, London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2019, https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n22/r.w.-johnson/rising-moon. Edge, Simon. "The Express: DARK SIDE OF THE MOONIE." Express, The (London, England), 15 Oct. 2009. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12E3828D241D77D8. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021. "Frontline: The Resurrection of Reverend Moon." 1992, PBS. https://vimeo.com/520151453. Frosman, Daniel. "The Untold Story of Sushi." The New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sushi-us.html. Gorenfeld, John. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom. PoliPointPress, 2008. Hong, Nansook. In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moons Family. Little, Brown, 1998. Kaplan, Anna. "The Moon's the limit." The Humanist, vol. 64, no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2004, p. 14+. Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A121765419/PPPM?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-PPPM&xid=e603ec35. Accessed 19 June 2021. Levine, Martin, et al. "Sun Myung Moon, We Hardly Knew Ye-or Your Church's Finances!" Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly, 12 Sept. 2018, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/sun-myung-moon-we-hardly-knew-yeor-your-churchs-finances/. McFadden, Robert D. "Donald M. Fraser, Lawmaker Who Bared a South Korea Plot, Dies at 95." The New York Times, The New York Times, 3 June 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/obituaries/donald-fraser-dead.html. "Moonies Accused of Involvement in Drugs." The Irish Times, The Irish Times, 14 Oct. 2004, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/moonies-accused-of-involvement-in-drugs-1.1161827. MORPHEW, CLARK. "Daughter-in-law flees abuse by Moon family." Columbia Daily Tribune (MO), 10 Oct. 1998. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0FC2AC5BEB9E53AC. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021. "NANSOOK HONG." Weekend Edition Saturday [NPR] (USA), 26 Sept. 1998. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/15758DBAA26FDF48. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021. Reuter, Lisa. "A HARSH LIFE BEING ECLIPSED BY THE MOONS." Columbus Dispatch, The (OH), Home Final ed., sec. FEATURES - Accent & Arts, 3 Jan. 1999, p. 6F. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/10DD3E8BA07C3D08. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.