The Church of Love (Chonda-Za)
Oct 25, 2022•39 min•Ep. 42
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Episode description
The Church of Love: Chonda-Za, Love Angels, lonely hearts, and a whole lot of questionable love letters. Plus, self-delusion and seeing things for what they are.
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- Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by Shankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler
- Hidden Brain: Lonely Hearts
- Church Of Love Drama: Sex, Money, Angels And Broken Dreams AP News 1988
- Knights of Chonda-Za Chicago Tribune 1988
- Church of Love operators plead innocent to fraud The Daily Dispatch 1987
- ‘Church of Love’ wasn’t quite angelic Quad-City Times 1989
- Successful love angel: ‘Pure and wholesome’ The Des Moines Register 1988
Written and produced by Anna Roberts
Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez
Intro music by Elliot Middleton
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