Vincent Anderson joins the OFC for our third in the series, Ozarks Movements on the Margins, to recall for us one of the most notorious cults ever planted in these hills, the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord. From the earliest days of Ellison and Noble to the invasion of the compound in 1985, Anderson guides us through the history and aberrant theology of a compound in northern Arkansas that was obsessed with race, eschatology, and a supposed mission to defeat the enemies of God. A scarlet thread of hatred and end times speculation runs through many of these cults, but none exemplifies that thread more clearly than the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord.

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