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310 pages, Hardcover
First published March 19, 2024
For others - especially many of their children - The Gen-Xers, millennials, and Zoomers who grew up in the shadow of the Moral Majority only to come of age in a far more pluralistic and interconnected world - these years have been a time of confusion and disillusionment. People born into evangelical families during that era have reached adulthood at a time when information is more readily available than ever - making alternative points of view impossible to ignore - and younger generations of Americans are leaving religion, and particularly Christianity, at a rapid pace.
To compromise our understanding of the literal truth of the Bible in any way, we were told, could threaten everything. If there was no direct creation in the Garden of Eden, and no literal Adam, did that mean there was no sin? And if not, then why did Jesus come to save us? We knew we were sinners and he'd come to save us, so there must have been an Adam and there must have been a garden.