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    Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International
    Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International
    Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International
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    Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International

    By Charlene L Edge and Duane Stapp

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    Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International™ is Charlene Edge’s riveting memoir about the power of words to seduce, betray, and, in her case, eventually save. After a personal tragedy left her bereft, teenaged Charlene rejected faith and family when recruiters drew her into The Way I

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    PublisherNew Wings Press, LLC
    Release dateMar 26, 2017
    ISBN9780997874716
    Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International
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    Charlene L Edge

    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 writing has appeared in Shifting Gears: Small, Startling Moments In and Out of the Classroom, ICSA Today, magazine of the International Cultic Studies Association, and The Florida Writer magazine. She is a member of the Authors Guild, ICSA, the Florida Writers Association (FWA) and contributes monthly to the FWA blog. 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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