THE WORLD IN FLAMES
A BLACK BOYHOOD IN A WHITE SUPREMACIST DOOMSDAY CULT
It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions—including a prohibition against doctors and hospitals—the underpinning tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God was that its members were divinely chosen and all others would soon perish in rivers of flames.
Reviews
A riveting, compelling, and impressively candid account from first page to last, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult is unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Contemporary American Biography collections.
This is one of those truly engaging memoirs that will linger in the mind and memory long after the book itself has been finished and set back upon the shelf.
Jerald Walker has a remarkable story to tell, and he tells it with a wealth of grace and intelligence at his command.
The key to the memoir’s cumulative power is Walker’s narrative command; the rite of passage is rockier than most, making the redemption well-earned.
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