Rachel Van Amburgh's Reviews > The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

I'm admittedly a little obsessed with cults...and I was very intrigued to read this account from the perspective of a Black person in the Worldwide Church of God, a group that held many White Supremacist views. Given that this topic is included in the subtitle of the book, I was very eager to learn how Black membership in the church was navigated, but found it very oddly disappointing that the author did not really discuss this aspect of his experience much at all, aside from a brief mention of the scripture that upheld their white supremacist views. Overall, this book just made me very sad for the author's childhood that was lost inside of this suffocating, oxymoronic, and ultimately very dangerous religion. I wish more could be done to protect children who invariably must suffer in religions/cults who routinely refuse medical treatment--it's tragic.

A side note: as a music nerd and Southern Californian, I had no idea about the connection between the historic Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena (the "Carnegie Hall of the West") and the college run by the Worldwide Church of God, which was a very interesting discovery.