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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. after the cult, do your bestBy Joe P. SzimhartI got a copy of this book years ago and read through it quickly, but this past week I decided to read more carefully. This is familiar territory for me, that of unique and often painful and not often enough comical memoirs by former cult members. Wendy Duncan’s account is more thorough than most and offers insight into the realm of distorted Christian behaviors based on one preacher’s private interpretations of scripture. Ole Anthony’s Trinity Foundation formed in Dallas, in the early 1970s when Christian reform sects flourished during a burgeoning movement revival across America. Followers of Charles Manson believed he was Jesus Christ, albeit a non-traditional one. Hundreds if not thousands of mediums channeled Jesus Christ. Former Marine and preacher’s son Jim Roberts began a Jesus movement in the early 1970s that became a secretive, nomadic sect of “brothers and sisters” or brethren with no name, but the press started calling them the Garbage Eaters because they believe in eating from dumpsters or from whatever others throw out. Roberts is yet alive at this writing and maybe 50 members continue fellowship; mostly they remain cut off from biological family.Ole Anthony’s sect became a communal system serving people in need and recovering drug addicts. Some very dedicated Christians with a working knowledge of scripture as elders or “Levites” in cult jargon led the group. The author’s husband Doug was one of the Levites.Anthony basked in national fame after exposing some televangelists like Robert Tilton (as if Tilton were not already obviously off-center to most observers of his fund raising antics and bizarre name-it-and-claim-it Bible sorcery). Wendy Duncan’s story reveals that even sophisticated, well-educated scripture scholars (she was trained in a formal Protestant scripture school) can find purpose in radical movements. Her vulnerability was caused by her Christian devotion, ironically, because strict Evangelical rules forbid divorce and divorced folks from ministering. Wendy was divorced early in her adult life. Trinity Foundation welcomed the dispossessed and fallen in their midst. We must keep in mind that Jim Jones of the People’s Temple also ministered to the poor and to drug addicts. Jones promoted racial equality. His church in the early days was energetic and looked and acted so much like real Christianity should look and act that Willie Brown, a prominent Democratic leader in , praised Jones on national television as someone we all should emulate. Willie Brown made the mistake of not looking behind the curtain. He believed in the projected wizard on stage. Wendy and Doug remained in the cult as long as they did for the good things until the bad things (behind the curtain) became so overwhelming that they had to make a break, but, as the memoir describes, leaving was not so easy.For me, the larger, more important story is that of recovery. Everything “unfreezes” in Kurt Lewin’s model when the core of our very being crashes around us. Confusion reigns. Who is God becomes a huge problem, as the title indicates. Which Jesus, if any, is the right one among the myriad choices? Hearing sound scriptures in other churches can trigger the ex-member with negative emotions because the cult leader used the same scriptures to make his points. The author tells us poignantly, “I heard Ole’s voice in my mind a thousand times a day.” She states, “All I was left with was an overwhelming state of confusion.”The book indicates that recovery means becoming a mature adult that lives within probabilities, not certainties. A mature Christian knows that there was never anything like a primitive Christian community that had it all right. A mature Christian knows that the scripture is not inerrant, therefore there is no inerrant interpretation possible. A mature adult knows that life is a struggle and that we live with the best we can do. We should never let someone else’s certainty limit our best. The rest is up to God or whatever one believes God is. That was my takeaway from this book, if nothing else.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. I Can't Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult, by Wendy DuncanBy Customerreview for Wendy Duncan's book, "I Can't Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult"I give her book 5 stars-In her book, "I Can't Hear God Anymore" Wendy Duncan, carries her readers to the place right before she entered into the cult, the Trinity Foundation. She shares her vulnerability to cult influences (i.e. those factors that particularly made her vulnerable to the offerings of a cult) and through her sharing about the cult life, she hallmarks and describes through stories, the various doctrinal errors of the Trinity Foundation. She describes the life of the cult, how the members were boundaryless, the enmeshed main cult identity of all into one identity, sharing realthe stories of how this looked like.Her honest assessment of her and her husbands being vulnerable to the cult in the start, the hard look at the reasons that they were in the cult, the stories of her coming up out of it, and the experience of losing her only community, their leaving the cult and finding healing and help. All the hallmarks of cult recovery are covered in her sharing.As a cult survivor myself, I valued her framing the journey as she did, i valued the honest look at the particular teachings of Ole, the cult leader, and how they were far afield from mainstream and historical Christian teachings, I appreciated her honesty and the stories of her healing and finding eventually a solid and healing connection into a new Christian community, after floundering around 'church shopping' week upon week. I identified with just about all her issues.Highly recommended reading for cult survivors of any stripe or color and for those who care about those who come out from a cult.11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. I don't need what Ole Anthony has to offer!By B. EversbergI had a strange reason for purchasing this book. I had seen Ole Anthony on TV giving reports of various televangelists and knew he did research on them. I was thinking of contacting his organization to see if they could help me find some information on a certain ministry.Fortunately, first I "googled" Ole Anthony, and this book came up. The idea that Ole Anthony could be the head of something he himself has appeared on TV purporting to be against was just too intriguing. So I purchased this book.Although I didn't enjoy Wendy's descriptions of Anthony's doctrine, because it so clearly is wrong, and although I can't identify with someone who would willingly place themselves in the situation the characters in the book did and do, still, the story is very well written, and the explanation of Anthony's doctrines are needed to "get" the story. The story was convincing enough that I believe it!I'm glad this book was published, it's a variation of the all-too-oft story of abuse by people in authority, or pseudo-authority, and the very worst kind is a religious figure who abuses his flock in the name of Christ!So, thanks to this book, I don't need any information that Ole Anthony might be able to provide me. That would be like asking Don Corleone (The Godfather) to help me because my neighbor's dog barks too loud. It just wouldn't be worth it!

I Can't Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult is an inspiring and instructive example of how normal people caught in the skillful manipulations of an abusive cult can find their way back to spiritual and psychological health. The author was a former member of Ole Anthony's pseudo-Christian group, Trinity Foundation, and writes about her experience with the group and describes the cultic nature of the group and its charismatic leader. Duncan's personal struggle to return to psychological wholeness, as well as insights from Dr. Margaret Singer and other researchers who have explored the cult phenomenon, are included in this important new book. I Can’t Hear God Anymore addresses the issues that face former members after they leave a cult or a spiritually abusive group. The author covers the loss of one’s identity and purpose, the intense loneliness, and the fear that God has abandoned them. Though the focus is primarily on the author and her husband, the book explores the clever workings of a charismatic cult leader and the manipulative techniques that were used. She also discusses the recovery process former cult members must face. In our society, we are careful to teach and learn about sexual harassment and abuse so that lives are not ruined. Just as importantly, we must warn others of the dangers of religious abuse.

About the AuthorWendy J. Duncan, LBSW, M.A. has worked in the mental health field for over twenty years. She holds a master's degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a former member of a Bible-based cult.

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