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

I appreciate the author's humor and candor. He told an amazing story full of twists and turns and very real human hopes and foibles.

I was born into Worldwide Church of God. I was vaguely aware of controversies within the organization but had no idea of the full extent of them. Partway through reading this book I found the 60 Minutes segment and watched it. I went down a rabbit hole doing research on the many ways in which WCG preyed on their "brethren" 's hopes and fears to bleed them dry. It is despicable and it happened to my family too.

Reading someone else's account made me feel like it was real and I am not alone. I have always felt weird and ashamed, as if i brought it on myself. I know now I am a survivor.

Thank you, Jared Walker, for being brave enough to tell your story.