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Dear Church: Letters from a Disillusioned Generation
by
Sarah Cunningham (Goodreads Author)
Through this series of letters from a former emergent church staffer to the global church she's not always sure she wants to be a part of, this volume invites every person to engage their own disappointments and journey through disillusionment and back again.
Paperback, 219 pages
Published
July 25th 2006
by Zondervan Publishing Company
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The word “disillusioned” is used often in Sarah Cunningham’s book Dear Church: Letters from a Disillusioned Generation (Zondervan). It’s a series of letters written by the twenty-something who is the daughter of a Southern Baptist Church planter. I didn’t read it because of the church planter thing. I didn’t even know that until after my wife brought it home from the library for me. My initial reason for reading it was because I’d...more
The word “disillusioned” is used often in Sarah Cunningham’s book Dear Church: Letters from a Disillusioned Generation (Zondervan). It’s a series of letters written by the twenty-something who is the daughter of a Southern Baptist Church planter. I didn’t read it because of the church planter thing. I didn’t even know that until after my wife brought it home from the library for me. My initial reason for reading it was because I’d...more
Sarah Cunningham, a twentysomething, shares the problems she both had to work through and continues to work through with Church and what it both can and should look like both locally and globally. With her sense of wit, sarcasm and irony, a potentially sadenning heavy subject becomes easy to read, challenging and interesting.
Due to the style of her writing, Cunningham leads the reader on a journey through both ups and downs, toward encouragement and further dissalusionment paradoxically held in...more
Due to the style of her writing, Cunningham leads the reader on a journey through both ups and downs, toward encouragement and further dissalusionment paradoxically held in...more
I recently finished reading this, and it really hit home to some of the emotions that had bothered me with my own local church. I knew that I needed to forgive and move on, yet everytime I saw someone from my local church, the feelings would resurface. I like the fact that she offers hope and encourages us to try to work out the problems we have with the church, wether they will hear us or not.
It gave me hope that there are many others out there like me, who are disillousioned in the church, and...more
It gave me hope that there are many others out there like me, who are disillousioned in the church, and...more
Disappointed. Sometimes, read that: sometimes, she had some valid points, but I think she failed to give any concrete solutions. It seemed more like another twenty-something rant against organized religion. FWIW, I'm a twenty-something that grew up in the church just like her. I just came to some very different conclusions about it.
Some parts of the book could have been condensed, but interjected several good points and questions throughout the book. Overall, enjoyed reading this book and could relate to several of the letters. I enjoyed Letter 9: The Best Dirt I've Ever Eaten as she wrote to different segments of the church.
I read this a few years ago kind of by accident. Sarah is my talkin' bout my generation so I wanted to see what we thought about the church and God. I have to say... sometimes she wasn't too far off. Everyone has their own stories to tell and their own issues with God's people - they are people after all - so I found it interesting and enlightening to read Sarah's. Glad she shared.
The writer Sara Cunningham constantly reminded me of what my distastes are for the church of this day and age. Then mentally slaps me with the the realization that God has created the church and God will never let me down no matter how disillusioned I may become with the church.
Excellently written
Excellently written
Sarah is right in what she is observing but at the same time, I have yet to read anything that I had not yet heard or experienced. Although, I find her helpful in the sense that she doesn't want to give up like most in her generation. She is searching for a solution.
I liked the book, but I was disappointed that it was not Letters from a Disillusioned Generation, it was just the authors reflections on church.
Apr 06, 2008
Jeanne Wong
marked it as emergent
I learned that I am not the only one disillusioned with the church. Can I find my way out and dream once again?
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