Courage for Orphaned Believers
 
 

Orphaned Believers, the new book

 

Now available to order

 
 
“As American Christianity changes, and as we change along with it, we need guides to remind us who we are and who we’re not. Sara has been one such guide for me. She’s brutally honest and hilarious, and her heart is wide open to the radical possibility that belonging to Jesus is identity enough for Christians. I couldn’t be more grateful for her.”
— Jon Guerra, singer-songwriter and producer

In the wake of the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, many young evangelicals found themselves untethered, disillusioned, and—ultimately—orphaned as they grappled with the legalistic, politically co-opted churches of their youth and embarked on a search for a more loving, more biblical expression of the faith and discipleship taught by Jesus.

Sara is one of those orphans. She knows the grief of following Jesus while watching political pundits twist Christianity to support their power struggles and exclusionary policies. She knows the feeling of being alone, misunderstood, and maligned.

Her experience of estrangement from a particular expression of evangelicalism has led her, somewhat ironically, to a greater dependence on the church. Orphaned Believers offers readers hope that no matter what you’ve experienced or who you are, you never have to walk away from Jesus.

Part spiritual memoir of an apocalyptic childhood, part commentary of growing up as an evangelical kid in the culture wars, part story of a dying dad clinging to rapture hope, Orphaned Believers follows the journey of a generation of Christian exiles as we reckon with the tradition that raised us and search for a new way to participate in the story of God.