When The Cross and the Switchblade first hit shelves in 1963, it lit a match in the hearts of readers across America. David Wilkerson’s memoir of leaving his small-town church to minister to violent gang members in New York City captured the raw power of faith in the face of chaos. It was a story of intervention—a preacher stepping into …
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You’ve heard this story before—or at least you think you have. A gang member hits rock bottom, finds God, turns his life around, writes a book. Clean ending. Big altar call. Amen. But that’s not this. This isn’t a polished testimony.This is blood on the page. Split Down The Middle is not about a man who found God and got …
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When people ask what it was like to write my memoir, I usually talk about the emotional toll of revisiting childhood trauma. The silence between me and my mother. The abandonment. The secrets. But the hardest scene to write wasn’t about what was done to me.It was about what I did to someone else. There’s a chapter in Split Down …
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Before a single page is turned or a chapter unfolds, I want to let you in on why this book exists—and why it matters. Split Down the Middle is more than a memoir. It’s a reckoning. A journey through the darkest corners of my past, the complicated choices I made, and the slow, painful climb toward healing. Writing it has …
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