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A "brave memoir" by a woman who left her husband and her church to find her own spiritual path ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review). Carlene Cross joined the world of evangelical Christianity as a teenager, and after attending Bible college and marrying a charismatic young man who appeared destined for greatness as a fundamentalist minister, she thought the pieces of her life had fallen into place. But her feelings of hope and promise started to crumble when she realized that her husband had fallen victim to the same demons that had plagued his youth. When efforts to hold their family together failed, she broke away—despite the condemnation of the congregation and the anger of many she had considered friends. Once outside, she realized that the secular world was not the seething cauldron of corruption and sin she had believed, and found herself questioning the underpinnings of the fundamentalist faith. In this "absorbing" account, Cross... Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes Single Author : Carlene Cross Original Source : Mirc New Files 07 01 Sorted Author by LN, FN: Cross, Carlene Title Length : 022

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Author
Cross, Carlene
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9781565124981
Category
religious
Subjects
Memoir, Christian, Fiction
Rating
3.79 / 5 (139 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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