Gordon Neufeld: 5 books

In Part Two, Neufeld describes being sent from the California-based Oakland Family (which operated as a cult within a cult) to Los Angeles in early 1977, to work with members from the nationwide Unification Church on a team known as the International One World Crusade (IOWC).  The longer he works...

Mass weddings. Matching ceremonies where people meet their future spouses for the first time. Desperate flower-sellers approaching bar customers late at night. Isolated farms where young men and women are rapidly transformed into fanatical devotees of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. All these are well-known...

In Part Three, Neufeld recounts the dilemma he finds himself in after two years of study at the Unification Theological Seminary.  For the first time in his cult life, he no longer feels he must obey the leaders automatically.  Instead, he believes the cult’s failure to achieve greater success...

In Part Four, Neufeld describes his final years as a member of the cult known as the Unification Church (often called the “Moonies”).  Neufeld now finds himself in an isolated situation, living in Canada far away from any other church members.  Worse, he is also single again.  The woman he...

International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling author Gabor Maté, M.D., to tackle one of the most disturbing trends of our time: Children today looking to their peers for direction—their values, identity, and codes of behavior. This “peer orientation”...