Episode 6 Apostolic Socialism

Jim Jones had a gift for recognizing and cultivating a person's capacity for magical thinking or the belief that unrelated events are connected by invisible, supernatural threads. Those who followed J...

15 Aug 20211h 59min

The paranormal healing ministry drew new members to Peoples Temple with Jim Jones' promises of supernatural support for the cause. The divine gifts physically took a toll on Jim Jones as he felt the s...

15 Aug 20211h 20min

Welcome to the Sunday Service, a 3-part immersive experience exploring Jim Jones' paranormal ministry and the mystery of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. Your first visit to Peoples Temple will invo...

15 Aug 20211h 7min

Denise was three years old when her family joined Peoples Temple. Like so many early childhood memories, obscured by the lenses of time, Denise's recollections are vivid emotional snapshots that pain...

21 Maj 20211h 24min

Music was often peoples first, and last impression of Peoples Temple. From the moment you walked into a temple service, the music created a certain atmosphere. The voices of the choir lifted the spiri...

5 Mars 20211h 45min

In the charged atmosphere of the mid-1960s, Jim Jones moved Peoples Temple westward, seeking a new beginning in California's radical counter cultural awakening. In Redwood Valley Jim Jones embedded hi...

2 Jan 20212h 24min

Long before Jonestown, Jim Jones was preaching a prophecy of nuclear annihilation down to the exact minute it would begin. In this episode, we trace how Cold War hysteria, doomsday visions, and a now-...

16 Dec 20201h 4min

I believe in Jim Jones. Many of you have seen the photograph. An elderly woman dressed in her Sunday best with a resolute, if not revolutionary sparkle in her eye. But what did Jim Jones believe? Jim ...

2 Dec 20201h 38min