📼 Orphaned Believers: How A Generation Of Christian Exiles Can Find the Way Home

A book announcement for your Thursday!

👋Greetings, friends! What a treat to be emailing you on a Thursday. I couldn’t wait any longer to tell you all about Sara Billups’ new book, Orphaned Believers!

Part-spiritual memoir of an apocalyptic childhood and part-commentary on growing up as an evangelical kid during the culture wars, Orphaned Believers follows the journey of a generation of Christian exiles reckoning with the tradition that raised them and searching for a new way to participate in the story of God. Because for all the baggage, we still belong, and a bigger, more beautiful story awaits.

For those of us raised in the throes of the '80s and '90s evangelical culture wars, church has been a battleground that so many of us wandered away from. With love and compassion, Sara Billups helps to bind up the wounds of the broken and point us toward a new expression of faith that is motivated to make the world a better place.

I highly recommend that you add Orphaned Believers: How A Generation Of Christian Exiles Can Find the Way Home to your bookshelves! This book is not only an excellent resource, but also acts as a healing balm to help restore the spirits of those of who who carry the burden of church hurt and who long for reconciliation. As Billups says in her book,

“To persevere, Christians have to accept the possibility that God is actively loving. Which means change and restoration are real and near. Even, and especially, in the presence of brokenness.”

Friends, I read every word of this book and endorsed it with all of my fibers (you can read my endorsement here) If you have had a difficult experience with the American church in the last few years (like I know many of you have), Sara’s book will make you feel both understood and compelled to hope in something better.

Orphaned Believers came out earlier this week so you don’t have to wait to buy your own copy!

If you’ve been disenchanted by American Christianity over the few years, let this book be a guide on how to move forward in your faith and find community again.