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Sarah Sentilles earned her doctorate in theology and her master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and is the author of Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton. She lives in Camarillo, California. Visit www.sarahsentilles.com.

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3.5. On paper, Sentilles' religious background is similar to mine - mainline Protestant in her early adult life, but with a mixed-faith background that gave her an early understanding of religious diversity. I enjoyed her encounters with different theologies and following her experience of leaving a belief system that defined her identity.

However, I didn't connect with this book on a deeper level because Sentilles' experience of religion is quite different from mine. In part, her Catholic upbringing and its emphasis on personal guilt is something very foreign to me. But it's also because her spirituality is defined by emotion, whereas by the time I was in college, mine was a lot more intellectual, so that my journey out of faith was a matter of struggling with thorny philosophical issues rather than shedding an emotional relationship with God. From this perspective, I "broke up with God" a lot earlier than Sentilles. Because Sentilles' adult faith was tied to changing denominations after college, I actually think that her experience was more like an adult convert's.

In general, I'm pretty choosy about memoirs; life so rarely has the narrative structure that makes for a really compelling story. But I think this would be the perfect book for the right reader. And it did help me reflect on my own belief journey and the challenge of being an outsider to a religion while still feeling the call to engage with its ideas and language. (Alas, unlike some of the theologians in this book, being some kind of agnostic Christian has absolutely zero appeal to me.)
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raschneid | 4 autres critiques | Dec 19, 2023 |
Stranger Care is a very powerful book that I enjoyed reading from the first page to the last. A fascinating account of the foster care system! Well-written and a must read for those navigating the foster care system in the US. Highly recommend!
 
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BridgetteS | Jul 1, 2022 |
Like Craig Thompson's "Blankets" and Madeleine L'Engle's "Ring of Endless Light," this book and its protagonist's struggle with faith and religion resonates with me on so many levels. Sentilles, who grew up in the church and spent many years studying theology and the ministry, evaluates her relationship with Christianity as if examining a personal romantic relationship, from the initial infatuation to the “going steady,” the highlighting of differences and the eventual parting. She raises many of the questions that have been tossed around amongst others my age — the divergence between the human concept of God and what God is; the alignment of churches with politics and government; the fallibility of doctrine and heresy; the manipulation of scripture and spiritual authority. She addresses Christianity through the lens of various theologians, historians, thinkers, and writers, taking their views and perspectives on faith and examining them in comparison and contrast to her slowly developing personal views. And although I find myself still somewhere in the midst of these, Sentilles’ conclusions and eventual separation from organized Christianity also strikes a chord with me.… (plus d'informations)
 
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resoundingjoy | 4 autres critiques | Jan 1, 2021 |
Through a dazzling assembly of memoir, history, reportage, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles constructs a harrowing yet beautifully moving collage that portrays the making of art as a powerful response to making war and of a life lived by peace and principle. She tells the true stories of a conscientious objector during WW1, and a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, challenging conventional thinking about how violence is waged, witnessed, and resisted.
 
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ExeterQuakers | May 30, 2020 |

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