Sin Bravely: A Memoir Of Spiritual Disobedience
by Maggie Rowe
Buy on AmazonA tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell--an NPR Best Book of the Year. As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian —regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the “good news” that they were going to hell. Finally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility. And that is where her journey really began.…
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"Everything about Sin Bravely is unexpected. It’s a deeply personal examination of what can happen when you take religion to the extreme, but it’s also hilarious. Maggie Rowe tells her own story of checking into an evangelical psychiatric facility after years of worrying she isn’t devout enough. Her fear of eternal damnation is real and at times uncomfortable to read about. But what I found so refreshing about this book was the way Rowe balanced serious religious reflection and humor without an ounce of snark or cynicism."
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