The Exvangelical predicament: ‘Hurting due to the fact that we followed the guidelines’
(Sightings)-- Calling a book "prompt" seems like a backhanded compliment. It appears to recommend that the book's biggest strength is its publication date. Let me be clear: Sarah McCammon's "The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church" is both prompt and excellent.
Timely, since it handles the problems that will choose the 2024 elections-- problems of spiritual power and physical autonomy. Superb, since it goes over those problems with level of sensitivity, elegance and no percentage of bravery.
McCammon was born and raised in America's conservative Protestant subculture; she is now a reporter for National Public Radio, an outlet her daddy when rejected as "National Perverted Radio." "The Exvangelicals" is the story of her journey in between these 2 points. ...