Book Review: Orphaned Believers

 

Orphaned Believers

How a Generation of Christian Exiles Can Find the Way Home

by Sara Billups

Pub Date 24 Jan 2023 

 Baker Books 

 Biographies & Memoirs  |  Christian 

I am reviewing a copy of Orphaned Believers through Baker Books and Netgalley:

Following the Culture wars f the 1980s and 1990s, many young evangelical Christians found themselves untethered, disillusioned, and ultimately orphaned as they grappled with the legalistic, politically co-opted churches of their youth.  Maybe you are one of the ones who ended up with feelings of disillusionment.  Perhaps, like Sara Billups, you have felt alone, misunderstood, and maligned in the American church, longing for a more loving, more biblical expression of the faith and discipleship taught by Jesus.

Orphaned Believers is 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.

I give Orphaned Believers five out of five stars! 

Happy Reading!