Goodbye, My Tribe
Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus is Vic Sizemore's chronicle of personal essays chronicling two simultaneous transformations. One is the gathering of unconnected--and nonpolitical--evangelical…
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Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus is Vic Sizemore's chronicle of personal essays chronicling two simultaneous transformations. One is the gathering of unconnected--and nonpolitical--evangelical congregations across the nation into the political juggernaut called the Religious Right; the other is the author's own coming to terms with the emotional and spiritual trauma of his life deep inside fundamentalist Christianity, and his struggle to free himself from its grasp. Sizemore, whose father was a preacher and professor at a small West Virginia Bible college, attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, arguably the crucible of American evangelical Christianity.Sizemore began writing these essays with the aim of exploring and understanding what happened when the mythology of his "tribe" crumbled from beneath his feet. He draws heavily on his upbringing and his