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Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith
April Ajoy
4.47 AVERAGE
340 reviews for:
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith
April Ajoy
4.47 AVERAGE
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There are so many excellent books coming out these days about christofascism, and I confess I've been avoiding them all. I'm pretty familiar with the terrain already, having grown up Evangelical and then staying informed as an ex-Christian adult. I, like many, am horrified by the current state of Western politics and terrified of the future it is creating, and am struggling to cope. But the beauty of placing a library hold is that you can give a book a shot anyway (and when I decided to switch to the audiobook, it was available right away!).
I'm familiar with April Ajoy from The New Evangelicals podcast. I knew she had left patriarchal Evangelicalism as an adult and that she's married with young children and her partner is nonbinary, but not much else, so I really enjoyed getting to know her more. She's a gifted communicator — her Master's in journalism is not for nothing! She tells her story with candor and a buoyant humour, in a cogent, clear-eyed way that kept me engaged. I'm not sure I could have been as candid in telling my story if I had done all the stuff that April did. That sounds like a backhanded compliment but I swear it's not! It's what makes this book so effective. Repentance is part of the Christian tradition — and April still is a professing Christian — so she deserves respect her for owning her past life and offering her story as a pathway into understanding how and why right-wing American Christians think and act the way they do.
April's performance of the audiobook is excellent! I wish she had talked more about her marriage and its evolution from a heterosexual one to a queer one, but I have a feeling that story will be hitting the shelves in the future, and I'll be first in line to read it.
Even you're avoiding books on these kind of topics because everything is too fucking heavy right now, consider giving this one a try. It's reality-based but still manages to be uplifting.
I'm familiar with April Ajoy from The New Evangelicals podcast. I knew she had left patriarchal Evangelicalism as an adult and that she's married with young children and her partner is nonbinary, but not much else, so I really enjoyed getting to know her more. She's a gifted communicator — her Master's in journalism is not for nothing! She tells her story with candor and a buoyant humour, in a cogent, clear-eyed way that kept me engaged. I'm not sure I could have been as candid in telling my story if I had done all the stuff that April did. That sounds like a backhanded compliment but I swear it's not! It's what makes this book so effective. Repentance is part of the Christian tradition — and April still is a professing Christian — so she deserves respect her for owning her past life and offering her story as a pathway into understanding how and why right-wing American Christians think and act the way they do.
April's performance of the audiobook is excellent! I wish she had talked more about her marriage and its evolution from a heterosexual one to a queer one, but I have a feeling that story will be hitting the shelves in the future, and I'll be first in line to read it.
Even you're avoiding books on these kind of topics because everything is too fucking heavy right now, consider giving this one a try. It's reality-based but still manages to be uplifting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry
Moderate: Sexism, Islamophobia
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