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More than conquerors : a memoir of lost arguments

Title: More than conquerors : a memoir of lost arguments / Megan Hustad.
Author: Hustad, Megan.
Publication: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
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227 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"A memoir about the author's Evangelical upbringing and how it's impacted her life as an adult"--
"Megan Hustad and her family try to reconcile an Evangelical upbringing in a post-Christian America. When Megan Hustad was a child, her father uprooted their family from Minneapolis to embark on a cross-cultural journey in the name of Evangelical Christianity. As missionaries they brought the Gospel to the Caribbean island of Bonaire and later to the outskirts of Amsterdam. After a decade away, they returned to the States only to find themselves more alien than before. The Evangelical landscape had transformed from the idealistic, market-averse movement it was in the 1970s to one where media-savvy pastors held sway over mega-churches. As the family struggled with the economic and spiritual aftermath of their break from middle-class Middle America, Megan and her sister, Amy, began to plot their escape. Megan sets her sights on New York City, where everything she was denied as a child would be at her fingertips, and Amy makes her home among the intellectual swagger of New Englanders. But fitting in proves harder than they'd imagined. As much as Megan tries to shake them, thoughts of the God she was ignoring follow her into every party and relationship. In More Than Conquerors, Hustad explores what happens when the habits of your religion coincide with the demands of your social class, and what breaks when they conflict. With a sharp tongue and deep insight, Hustad offers a vivid account of the cultural divisions, anxieties, and resentments that continue to divide our country and her own family"--

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JFD 14-1119

ISBN

9780374298838
0374298831

LCCN

2013038713

OCLC

2013038713

Author

Hustad, Megan.

Title

More than conquerors : a memoir of lost arguments / Megan Hustad.

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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JFD 14-1119

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