A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Journalist Sarah McCammon combines her own story with reporting and interviews to examine the growing exvangelical movement. She explores how conservative white evangelicalism shaped people through faith, family, politics, gender, sexuality, fear, and belonging—and why many have begun to leave it. The book describes a social and personal movement more than it argues for a new theology.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It gives travelers context for experiences that can otherwise feel isolated or purely private. McCammon identifies shared patterns while leaving room for people who do not use the exvangelical label or who arrive at very different destinations after evangelicalism.
Good starting place if…
You want an empathetic, reported account of why people leave white evangelicalism and why family, culture, politics, and identity often remain tangled afterward.
Know before you begin…
“Exvangelical” describes a loose and diverse movement, not one worldview. The book centers white American evangelicalism and McCammon’s experience; it cannot represent every racial tradition, denomination, region, or person who stays, reforms, converts, or leaves religion entirely.