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This is one I feel is especially helpful: The 3-D Cult Experience | Charlene L. Edge


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Former Religious Right Leader Endorses "Undertow"

Former Religious Right Leader Endorses Undertow by Charlene L. Edge Greetings, readers. I'm honored that my cult memoir is endorsed by Frank Schaeffer. If you have a copy of my memoir, Undertow , you'll see his blurb on the front cover and a longer version of it inside. In brief, Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author, an artist, and, among other things, the son of Francis and Edith Schaeffer, Christian evangelicals, who in the 1960s, helped found what's known as the Religious Right. Keep reading to learn more. But first, the endorsement. Frank Schaeffer Endorses Undertow “In  Undertow,  Charlene Edge has written a brilliant and engrossing warning to the future by dissecting the past. There are really two books here: one is on a cult called The Way (one of the largest fundamentalist cults in America with about 40,000 followers [in its heyday]).  The second book is an examination of the dynamics of all personality, religious, and political cu...
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