Journalist offers an intimate look at her departure from evangelical faith

Book review: ‘The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church’ by Sarah McCammon, ★★★★☆

From the book cover of “The Exvangelicals”; St. Martin’s Press.

At the age of 17 in 1998, Sarah McCammon was a page in the U.S. Senate. As she recalls attending classes on Capitol Hill, she remembers that it was the first time she had gone to a school where the day did not begin with prayer and a Bible reading. It was the first time she remembers a scien…