The Best Episodes of Our America with Lisa Ling Season 1

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   #1 - Faith Healers

   S1:E12/15/2011

   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.

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   #2 - Transgender Lives

   S1:E22/22/2011

   Five transgender people in various stages of transition are profiled.

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   #3 - State of Sex Offenders

   S1:E33/1/2011

   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.

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   #4 - Pray the Gay Away?

   S1:E43/8/2011

   "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.

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   #5 - Online Brides

   S1:E53/15/2011

   A Texas man travels to Colombia to meet women who advertise for husbands at a marriage website.

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   #6 - Heroin in the Heartland

   S1:E63/22/2011

   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.

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   #7 - A Closer Look

   S1:E73/29/2011

   Updates on the people and situations shown in previous episodes.

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