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It’s not just a millennial thing. I’m 68 years old, an MK, a former evangelical pastor’s wife, a Christian college grad, etc. It was 10 or 12 years ago that I poked a tiny hole in my evangelical bubble and eventually crawled out. My mentors were Rachel Held Evans, Brian Zahnd, and Daniel Taylor (“The Skeptical Believer”), to name a few. My husband left the pastorate a couple of years ago, and we now attend a vibrant Episcopalian church where we've met 3 other couples in our age range who were evangelical pastors and long term staff with Cru and the Navs. We thought we were a rarity, but apparently not.

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Some of were millennials before it was cool, Annie! I’m a year older. Didn’t grow up in the evangelical subculture yet understood it. Our millennial kids didn’t have to deal with all the evangelical subculture stuff (except for youth group and Christian College which they attended on tuition remit) and are healthier today for it.

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I have it on good authority that her parents did the best they could based on the information that was available to them at the time. Everyone has a right to tell their own story - I could write a book about my parents and I am still apologizing to my kids for raising them in a Bible church - but what is she gaining by hurting her parents like this? Does she really want to end their relationship? Couldn't she have left that part out? Just as an aside, as mad as I get about my parents, I will always remember the day my dad lay his theology aside for me.

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I found the sections on her upbringing to be more descriptive than accusatory. She also weaves in stories of probably 15 other people she interviewed who told similar (and much more damaged) stories. If your “good authority” extends to information beyond the book, then I’d say she wrote no more than she felt necessary.

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