Book jacket image for The Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon

St. Martin’s

9781250284471

STARRED REVIEW

The Exvangelicals

Mixing memoir and reportage, Sarah McCammon documents the growing number of young people who, like her, have left the evangelical fold to navigate a new world.

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Review of ‘The Exvangelicals’

When Sarah McCammon was growing up in the Midwest in the ’80s and ’90s, every aspect of her life was governed by her family’s evangelical faith, a faith underscored at her sprawling nondenominational church and her Christian school with expectations of an obedient childhood and “pure” young adulthood that forbid sex and, essentially, dating until…

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