A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Literary memoir and meditation tracing Black Pentecostal roots, white evangelical leadership, anti-Blackness, rupture, Jesus, Blackness, belonging, and spiritual reclamation.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It shows how spiritual belonging can be fractured when churches demand separation from one's history, body, or people. The memoir offers companionship for travelers trying to retain what gave life while naming what caused harm.
Good starting place if…
You want a vivid memoir of Black Pentecostal formation, racial trauma, public Christianity, doubt, and the search for a faith and community capacious enough for a whole self.
Know before you begin…
Stewart's story is personal, literary, and rooted in particular Black church, evangelical, and American political contexts. Its account should not be made to represent every Black Christian experience or every departure from white evangelical spaces.