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"Charlene Edge has written a brilliant and engrossing warning to the future by dissecting the past. ... What she exposes to bright liberating daylight is just how our political and religious worlds actually function based on the mesmerizing enticement of belonging to an "in-group." -Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back "A magnificently written life story that sheds light on the enticing ways of cult recruitment and indoctrination ... more gripping than a mystery. Undertow will sweep you away." -Janja Lalich, PhD, Professor Emerita of Sociology at California State University, Chico. Author of Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults "This thoughtful, beautifully-written memoir is a window into the gradual but compelling pull cults have on unsuspecting and well-meaning people of faith ..." -Todd French, PhD, Assistant Professor of Religion at Rollins College ..". Edge's heartfelt and earnest journey will leave you in awe of what the human spirit can conquer when it launches out in the search for truth. Well-written, compelling, and inspiring." -Kristen Skedgell, author of Losing the Way "How could a smart woman join a cult that asked of her everything, and took her all in the process? ... you'll find yourself wanting to reach into the pages to pull the author out of harm's way. ... There is something in this book for anyone who has ever wholeheartedly embraced a questionable theology." -Susan Campbell, author of Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl "Undertow is a gift to young people and their families who want to understand the inner workings of fundamentalist cults." -Steve Muratore, publisher of award-winning political blog the Arizona Eagletarian "Edge's heartfelt and heartbreaking memoir takes us behind the scenes to reveal how easily a handful of religious charlatans betrayed the trust placed in their hands. ..." -Robert Ruff, Emmy Award-winning television news producer "A fascinating insider's account of day-to-day life inside a cult ... with its endless sacrifices, compromises, and increasingly convoluted doublethink ..." -Arthur Goldwag, author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies "Charlene Edge writes with clarity and sensitivity. This memoir on her experiences in The Way International will help readers understand the subtleties and complexities of cultic groups." -Michael D. Langone, PhD, Executive Director of the International Cultic Studies Association "This well-written expose of life in a Christian fundamentalist cult reads like a novel and portrays, in lucid detail, how the author was seduced into joining the cult. ... she helps us understand how she lived with the founder's fantasies for seventeen years of her life. ... how she got out is as illuminating as how she got in. It is a must read." -Rita Bornstein, PhD, President Emerita of Rollins College, author of Legitimacy in the Academic Presidency: From Entrance to Exit "A tenderly written, intensely personal narrative about being swallowed alive by a cult. Edge's encounters with the abusive Victor Paul Wierwille and her firsthand observation of how The Way's Research Department twisted the Scriptures are enlightening and chilling." -Karl Kahler, author of The Cult That Snapped: A Journey Into The Way International "With balance and grace, Edge gives the reader a compelling portrait of the group's leader and his fraught relationship with his followers that stands as a warning beacon to all those drawn to charismatic prophets and their high-demand communities." -Phillip Charles Lucas, PhD, Professor of Religious Studies at Stetson University, co-editor with Thomas Robbins of New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century"Charlene Edge has written a brilliant and engrossing warning to the future by dissecting the past. ... What she exposes to bright liberating daylight is just how our political and religious worlds actually function based on the mesmerizing enticement of belonging to an "in-group." -Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back "A magnificently written life story that sheds light on the enticing ways of cult recruitment and indoctrination ... Undertow will sweep you away." -Janja Lalich, PhD, Professor Emerita of Sociology at California State University, Chico. Author of Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults "This thoughtful, beautifully-written memoir is a window into the gradual but compelling pull cults have on unsuspecting and well-meaning people of faith ..." -Todd French, PhD, Assistant Professor of Religion at Rollins College ..". Edge's heartfelt and earnest journey will leave you in awe of what the human spirit can conquer when it launches out in the search for truth. Well-written, compelling, and inspiring." -Kristen Skedgell, author of Losing the Way "How could a smart woman join a cult that asked of her everything, and took her all in the process? ... you'll find yourself wanting to reach into the pages to pull the author out of harm's way. ... There is something in this book for anyone who has ever wholeheartedly embraced a questionable theology." -Susan Campbell, author of Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl "Undertow is a gift to young people and their families who want to understand the inner workings of fundamentalist cults." -Steve Muratore, publisher of award-winning political blog the Arizona Eagletarian "Edge's heartfelt and heartbreaking memoir takes us behind the scenes to reveal how easily a handful of religious charlatans betrayed the trust placed in their hands. ..." -Robert Ruff, Emmy Award-winning television news producer "A fascinating insider's account of day-to-day life inside a cult ... with its endless sacrifices, compromises, and increasingly convoluted doublethink ..." -Arthur Goldwag, author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies "Charlene Edge writes with clarity and sensitivity. This memoir on her experiences in The Way International will help readers understand the subtleties and complexities of cultic groups." -Michael D. Langone, PhD, Executive Director of the International Cultic Studies Association "This well-written expose of life in a Christian fundamentalist cult reads like a novel and portrays, in lucid detail, how the author was seduced into joining the cult. ... she helps us understand how she lived with the founder's fantasies for seventeen years of her life. ... how she got out is as illuminating as how she got in. It is a must read." -Rita Bornstein, PhD, President Emerita of Rollins College, author of Legitimacy in the Academic Presidency: From Entrance to Exit "A tenderly written, intensely personal narrative about being swallowed alive by a cult. Edge's encounters with the abusive Victor Paul Wierwille and her firsthand observation of how The Way's Research Department twisted the Scriptures are enlightening and chilling." -Karl Kahler, author of The Cult That Snapped: A Journey Into The Way International "With balance and grace, Edge gives the reader a compelling portrait of the group's leader and his fraught relationship with his followers that stands as a warning beacon to all those drawn to charismatic prophets and their high-demand communities." -Phillip Charles Lucas, PhD, Professor of Religious Studies at Stetson University, co-editor with Thomas Robbins of New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century
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About the Author
Charlene L. Edge spent seventeen years in The Way (1970-1987). Since then, she's become a poet and prose writer and earned a B.A. in English from Rollins College. She worked for more than a decade as a technical and proposal writer in the software industry. Her poetry has been featured on WMFE-FM's Poetic Logic and published in The Florida Writer magazine, the Tampa Writers Alliance's Wordsmith, and the Rollins Book of Verse 1885-2010; her essays have appeared in Shifting Gears: Small, Startling Moments In and Out of the Classroom and ICSA Today, magazine of the International Cultic Studies Association. She is a sought-after guest speaker, and a member of the Florida Writers Association, the Authors Guild, and ICSA. She lives in Florida with her husband, Dr. Hoyt L. Edge. Charlene blogs about their travel adventures, writing, cults, fundamentalism, and other topics at: http: //charleneedge.com.
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Product details
Paperback: 474 pages
Publisher: New Wings Press, LLC (March 26, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0997874708
ISBN-13: 978-0997874709
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
20 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
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It confirms many things I thought and heard were going on in the Ministry. I understand the difficulty of giving up on something you’ve invested your life and belief in even in the sight of compelling evidence. It took me years to shake the twisted dogma I was taught by Wierwille. On the other hand I still have some fond memories of the people and fellowship I had in Twig. I am back to being the atheist I was before my Way experience. I do appreciate good Christians with true human love and respect.
I had met Charlene my first year in the way when I was at headquarters for training as the second wave as WOW ambassadors. We went to a coffeehouse where there was dancing and laughter. My memory of Charlene was seeing her on the dance floor doing an interpretive dance with another member of the way. Even then this impacted my life as my thoughts were that I wish I could be as free as she in expressing myself in dance. This time was a time of God truly being love and it being shown to other members. A sidenote to this experience is I avoided the group that was to go out witnessing that night as I tried to do or not do throughout my time with the way. A rewarding book in so many ways I can’t even start to explain. Don’t have to because Charlene has done it so well. Thanks to you Charlene!!!
This is a terrific book and a riveting story about how one young girl escaped years of emotional and psychological abuse from a religious cult. It is a true story. Ms. Edge tells her true story with truth and grace and clearly shows how people can distort God's word. The problem is not with God, as much as people who USE God's word to manipulate others, control others, and the psychologically damaging effects of obedience to a man or group, as opposed to a one-on-one relationship with God/Christ. Anytime obedience and secrecy and compliance are DEMANDED, (as opposed to respect which is earned by how you LIVE your faith) one should question the motivations of the group leader or group. When people are afraid to speak up or question faith teaching because they fear repercussions from a leader or a group, this is a clear DANGER SIGN! RUN and don't look back! This is not an anti-faith book. Far from it. It's a book that shows how crooked people can distort and damage an innocent longing and seeking for a genuine relationship with God. I'm glad she had the courage to honestly question harmful teachings and found the strength to escape.
This is the story of Ms Edge's nearly 2 decades of involvement with a "Christian" group that started out with good intentions, until things ultimately got very twisted. It is the story of one woman's gradual realization that she has been sold a pack of lies.As a 1978 PFAL graduate, I was involved with The Way for a couple of years, even considered myself a faithful member, until I started noticing that it didn't all add up. I still have some of the Way books. I look at them from time to time, thinking "some of this is good. How did it all end so badly?" Fortunately I was never married in the ministry, or financially dependent on it, like Ms Edge.This is quite a lengthy tome, with a lot of day to day detail about the inside of the ministry. From my perspective, the most interesting part is the author's extensive involvement with biblical research, using the ancient Syrian and Peshitta texts. This "biblical research" was Wierwille's "hook" on the naive and innocent public. While it was true that no other ministry was doing this type of work, it became tainted by Wierwille's psychopathic desire to make a name for himself and control others. Most of it wasn't real research, but it looked elegant and spiritual from the outside.I drifted away as I began to notice that many of the folks attracted to The Way were mixed up, hurting and confused. Most seemed to focus more on Wierwille than on Christ. Quoting the Bible replaced living a true Christian lifestyle. They maintained the letter of the law and not the spirit. Many had outlandish beliefs, such as Wierwille's smoking habit couldn't harm him because he was "The Man of God." Of course he died relatively young from cancer. So most of us smoked, because it was "OK". Although some of the things The Way taught were useful, the followers were just as subject as any "non-believer" to various weaknesses and human foibles. There was definitely a lack of sexual purity, as we later learned about Wierwille.Now, nearly 40 years later, I look back and I am thankful I was basically unscathed due to my limited involvement with the group. My take home message was overall a positive one. I still respect the Bible. I even have an interlinear or two hanging around, haha, should I ever have the time to indulge in things like that. However I now understand that it is more important to live out our beliefs, rather than indulging in ever finer parsing out of ancient biblical texts. Oh, yes, and don't smoke. It is a horrible habit.
I used to belong to The Way until i was in the Way Corps and saw some of the hypocrisy that she talks about. I left in 1977 when i lost trust in the leadership. Good book, i just wish she had used some real names and outed some of the creeps who were leaders, but i guess maybe it could cause her legal problems. Surprisingly i guess, i still believe a lot of things they taught and have found them very helpful in my spiritual life.
Fabulous book. Charlene is an excellent writer and the story was an intriguing true story on her experience with Cults.....Two of my book clubs have read the book and a third has it on their list to read.
Story of the brave exit from a very 'high profile' group from the pit of hell "posing' as Christians; they even "teach a class in speaking in tongues"! If you believe the Bible at all, this practice alone bans them; they also preach "all sin is okay once saved"- ridiculous; sexual deviance, too
Edge writes about her past, but through her eyes of the present. It is a fascinating story and Edge is a talented writer. If you are interested in getting an inside view of an insidious cult, read this book.
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