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Girl at the End of the World: My Escape from Fundamentalism in Search of Faith with a Future by Elizabeth Esther
5.0
"Girl At the End of the World" arrived on my Kindle at 12:04am on March 18th, 2014. By 2:00pm, I had finished the entire book, and was sitting on my couch sobbing. I'm still not sure if these were tears of grief or tears of redemption. I'm starting to believe that they were both.
Elizabeth Esther tells the story of her life growing up in The Assembly, a "church" in name, a cult in reality. She tells stories of abuse and brainwashing, of confusion and heartache, of backwards thinking that had her so turned around that she barely knew how to function when she did finally escape. She talks about love and forgiveness, about her escape from fundamentalism and her connection with the God of Grace. She lived at the ever-changing End of the World, and still, God met her. She tells of how she met the Holy Mother of God, how she found the Catholic Church, and how Mary and Jesus worked together to save her life and breathe healing into her bones.
She tells a brave story. A wild story. She weaves truth so vividly that I was often reduced to weeping over the sheer agony of it all. She depicts life within a cult with such depth and clear language that one is left sitting with the words and basking in the healing of the Most High God.
Everyone should read this book. Everyone.
Elizabeth Esther tells the story of her life growing up in The Assembly, a "church" in name, a cult in reality. She tells stories of abuse and brainwashing, of confusion and heartache, of backwards thinking that had her so turned around that she barely knew how to function when she did finally escape. She talks about love and forgiveness, about her escape from fundamentalism and her connection with the God of Grace. She lived at the ever-changing End of the World, and still, God met her. She tells of how she met the Holy Mother of God, how she found the Catholic Church, and how Mary and Jesus worked together to save her life and breathe healing into her bones.
She tells a brave story. A wild story. She weaves truth so vividly that I was often reduced to weeping over the sheer agony of it all. She depicts life within a cult with such depth and clear language that one is left sitting with the words and basking in the healing of the Most High God.
Everyone should read this book. Everyone.