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FORGED, by Bart Ehrman

September 4, 2011

DISTINGUISHED BIBLICAL SCHOLAR Bart Ehrman’s evidence-based challenge to the Christian canon’s authenticity.

Grade: B PLUS

FORGED: WRITING IN THE NAME OF GOD--WHY THE BIBLE'S AUTHORS ARE NOT WHO WE THINK THEY ARE
HarperOne

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THIS BOY’S FAITH, by Hamilton Cain

August 7, 2011

A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHILDHOOD is remembered, reframed in a time of family crisis in eloquent, bittersweet memoir. B PLUS

Grade: B PLUS

THIS BOY'S FAITH: NOTES FROM A SOUTHERN BAPTIST UPBRINGING
Crown
2011

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I WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND, by Brenda Peterson

March 7, 2011

THOUGHTFUL, POETIC MEMOIR of an evangelical girlhood by a writer who came to find the divine in nature.

Grade: SOLID B

I WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND
Da Capo
2010

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DATING JESUS by Susan Campbell

May 31, 2009

AN EVANGELICAL GIRLHOOD in 1970s Missouri, remembered with a refreshing touch of sardonic, yet always loving, wit. B PLUS

DATING JESUS: A STORY OF FUNDAMENTALISM, FEMINISM, AND THE AMERICAN GIRL by Susan Campbell
Boston: Beacon Press
January 2009

Grade: B PLUS

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