Orphaned believers: How a generation of Christian exiles can find their way home 

Reviewed by:

Ceil Carey, retired public librarian and long time book discussion leader

Title:

Orphaned believers: How a generation of Christian exiles can find their way home

Author:

Sara Billups

Publisher:

BakerBooks

https://bakerbookhouse.com/

Publication date:

2023

Format:

Paperback

Length:

232 pages

Overview:

Author Sara Billups has many interesting, even insightful perspectives on life in a Christian home during 1980 and 1990. She refers to her fellow Gen Xers as orphaned believers yet believers still and searching for their place in the Church. I found her comments often very telling particularly as this reviewer is part of the Baby Boomer generation. But her narrative jumps from one thing to another in a rather disconcerting way and this takes away from the flow of the book and the ease in following her writing.

This is also part author memoir of her spiritual life and upbringing with her father being a central character.

Rating:

3 out of 5

Suggested audience:

Particularly those interested in the take on Christianity of those growing up in Christian homes in the 1980s and 1990s

Christian impact:

Gives an interesting view of a Christian Gen Xer

Also includes:

-11 pages of notes

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