The World in Flames : A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult (Paperback)

from ragmop999

The World in Flames: A boyhood in a Doomsday Cult is about a cult religion going to far. As a child growing up I knew families that followed a similar type of religion that did not allow celebration of any type. As I read through this book my thoughts kept going to the real life people I knew. Gr...

from karenweyant

Jerald Walker grew up as a member of Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God, a doomsday religion that preached that the world, as everyone knew it, would end in 1975. This slim book tells Walker's remarkable story growing up as not only a member of this cult, but also the son of blind par...

from catscritch

A rare book, indeed. What's your normal? Life is a bowl of cherries? Or all will end as Revelations kicks off in your near future? This story of Jerry growing up under difficult circumstances is even more upsetting when he can't even complain because, well, the end is nye. What's the point? Just ...

from LNDuff

How do we really know what goes on within a family? Jerald Walker recounts a childhood which seems nearly unbelievable. His parents raised their children with love, but with elaborate strictures based on their faith that seem more akin to abuse than nurturing. This telling of a very unusual child...

from wevans

Engrossing and unique. Jerald Walker expertly modulates his voice, inhabiting his younger self with matter-of-fact credulity tempered with the wistful irony of an adult looking back. I might consider "The World in Flames" somewhat underambitious - it never manages to reach beyond the personal for...