CSUF alum returns to recount childhood in apocalyptic religious cult

As a child in the Children of God cult, Flor Edwards knew several things.
The word of leader David Berg was to be obeyed, even though he was never seen in person. Her parents’ first priority was not their 12 children but the need to go out into the world to save souls. And the order to quickly pick up and move — even as far as Thailand — was a fact of life.
She also believed she would die in a 1993 apocalypse and become a “martyr for God.”
Edwards, now 37 and a Cal