Season 1
Season 1 • 2011
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Episodes
1. Faith Healers
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.
2011-02-15 • 60 min
2. Transgender Lives
Five transgender people in various stages of transition are profiled.
2011-02-22 • 60 min
3. State of Sex Offenders
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.
2011-03-01 • 60 min
4. Pray the Gay Away?
"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.
2011-03-08 • 60 min
5. Online Brides
A Texas man travels to Colombia to meet women who advertise for husbands at a marriage website.
2011-03-15 • 60 min
6. Heroin in the Heartland
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.
2011-03-22 • 60 min
7. A Closer Look
Updates on the people and situations shown in previous episodes.
2011-03-29 • 60 min