Blogspot Index: Charlene Edge Speaks about The Way International


Greetings, readers. Perhaps the following list of my Blogspot posts about The Way, which I began writing in 2023, will be helpful. There is no other way to provide such a list on this site.

Note: The featured photo is from the late 1970s, at a meeting before I came on staff as a member of the Biblical Research Team. It's of a small group of us doing "biblical research" at Way headquarters in the old Biblical Research Center with Victor Paul Wierwille, founder of The Way (1916-1985). He is seated on the left at the head of the table. Walter J. Cummins, his research assistant and later my boss (see Undertow), is right of VPW wearing a white shirt. Next to him, wearing a dark top, is Donna Randall, VPW's research secretary (1931-2023). I don't know who that guys is sitting back there in the corner wearing a tie. I'm next around the table on the right wearing a white blouse, with my head resting on my arm, looking a bit tired or bored...

The following list is current as of May 18, 2026.

Cheers,

Charlene Edge

DATE PUBLISHED

TITLE

2026

 

5/16/2026

Undertow Brings Home the Gold

5/7/2026

What’s Missing from Undertow?

5/4/2026

Review of Kristen Skedgell’s “Losing The Way.”

5/2/2026

Who is Charlene L. Edge Who Writes about The Way Int’l?

5/1/2026

May 1: Cult Recovery Day

4/17/2026

Undertow’s 10th Birthday Coming in November

3/28/2026

What The Way International REALLY Teaches

3/4/2026

Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit Against The Way International

2/27/2026

The Way CHANGES the 1972 story in Whiteside’s Book, The Way: Living in Love

2/26/2026

What Did Victor Paul Wierwille Say About Women?

2/20/2026

Was Victor Paul Wierwille, Founder of The Way International, a Sexual Predator?

1/31/2026

Weaponizing Fear: How Victor Paul Wierwille Used Fear to Control Followers

1/25/2026

What I said in my first published interview about The Way International and my memoir, Undertow

1/23/2026

Undertow on BookRiot's List: 100 Must-Read Books About Life in Cults ...

1/6/2026

Charlene Edge “A Cult Insider’s Story” on YouTube

2025

 

12/31/2025

Happy New Year 2026: Celebrating 39 years away from The Way

12/28/2025

From Fundamentalism to Freedom

12/25/2025

The 3-D Cult Experience

11/15/2025

Update on Undertow

9/22/2025

Who is Strong?

8/15/2025

Charlene Edge has NOT authorized translations …

8/12/2025

Is The Way International a Christian Nationalist …

3/12/2025

Letters that Victor Paul Wierwille wrote to the Way Corps

2/22/2025

Caution: If you want to “join” The Way International

2024

 

11/19/2024

When Fundamentalism Hooked Me

8/2/2024

Preface to Charlene Edge’s memoir

5/23/2024

What’s Critical about Critical Thinking?

3/29/2024

Is VPW and The Way Int’l Fraudulent?

3/5/2024

The Good People I Met at The Way International

3/5/2024

What Makes The Way International a Fundamentalist Cult?

3/2/2024

“The Word” – Which Bible is it anyway?

3/2/2024

VPW and Plagiarism

2/27/2024

Book Review of “Undertow” published by ICSA

2/24/2024

Launched in L.A.: The Campaign of Christian Fundamentalism

1/4/2024

Interview with Charlene L. Edge

2023

 

12/30/2023

Former Religious Right Leader Endorses Undertow

12/29/2023

The Certain Curtain: How Fundamentalism Hooks

12/29/2023

Confession: I’m a former Christian Nationalist

12/29/2023

What Do You Know About Cults?

12/29/2023

What is a Cult?

12/28/2023

How to Identify Cults, a.k.a. High-Control groups

12/22/2023

Breaking the Power of Cult Symbols

12/9/2023

Speaking of “Way” stories

 

 

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