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SUMMARY:Damned If She Does with Sarah Stankorb and Cait West
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to welcome award-winning journalist and aut
 hor Sarah Stankorb back to our Grand Rapids event studio to discuss her 
 latest book\, Damned If She Does. This book is perfect for fans of Krist
 in Du Mez and Sarah McCammon. Sarah will be in conversation with fellow 
 author Cait West (Rift)\, and readers won’t want to miss this fascinatin
 g conversation that centers women and their decision to stay or step awa
 y from the church. We love seeing who is planning to join us! Your RSVP 
 helps us prepare to host you. You can RSVP here: https://events.humaniti
 x.com/sarah-stankorb-and-cait-west-sbgr About the Book: In this landmark
  account of American women leaving the church\, award-winning journalist
  Sarah Stankorb\, author of Disobedient Women\, asks why they leave--and
  where they land. Ordinarily\, women are more religious than men. But th
 ese are no ordinary times. In America\, where Christianity is still the 
 most common religion\, women are vacating churches. In the past decade\,
  16 million women have left the church. Younger women are disaffiliating
  from religion faster than men. For some women\, leaving is like a drama
 tic divorce\; for others\, as one woman tells Stankorb\, it's more like 
 women and the church "stopped calling each other." Exploring trends from
  the 1980s to today\, Damned If She Does is an intimate account of women
  whose stories got missed during the Christian Right's headline-grabbing
  rise to power. Their exodus is marked by harm\, disillusionment\, and d
 rift: from pastors' wives and a national Christian TV show host\, to gir
 ls whose horrific abuse gives another face to the Catholic sex abuse cri
 sis. Some couldn't stand by a church that cast out their queer friends. 
 Others were maligned for who they loved. Churches with strong opinions o
 n sexual purity and abortion stood beside men with histories of assault.
  With horror\, women who loved the church watched the rise of Christian 
 nationalism and saw their faith bastardized. Finally\, they've had enoug
 h. Some are atheists. Others are forging new spiritual avenues through a
 strology or energy work or connection to their ancestors. Some have a Ch
 ristian faith they no longer entrust to an institution. Attuned to emoti
 onal subtlety\, women's agency\, and religious longing\, Stankorb asks w
 hat happens when a woman realizes that she's damned both if she stays an
 d if she leaves. This consequential work of narrative nonfictionis a poi
 gnant reminder that women deserve better\, and a tale of what happens wh
 en they don't get it. About the Author: Sarah Stankorb is the author of 
 Damned If She Does and the national best-seller Disobedient Women. The a
 ward-winning\, Ohio-based writer is a fan of heartfelt truth-telling. He
 r work has appeared in publications including Elle\, The Washington Post
 \, Cosmopolitan\, Marie Claire\, Slate\, and many others. She writes abo
 ut religion\, politics\, feminism\, health\, technology\, and the public
  good. Find her at sarahstankorb.com. About the Conversation Partner: Ca
 it West is a writer\, editor\, and survivor advocate working to spread a
 wareness about the harms of religious patriarchy and authoritarianism. S
 he was featured in the documentary For Our Daughters\, and her work has 
 been published in Dunes Review\, The Revealer\, Fourth Genre\, Hawai'i P
 acific Review\, and Newsweek\, among others. She is the author of Rift: 
 A Memoir and lives in Traverse City\, Michigan\, with her cat\, Sherlock
 . Follow her at caitwest.com.\n\nTickets: https://events.humanitix.com/s
 arah-stankorb-and-cait-west-sbgr#tickets\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/
 event/328490c4-3d1f-4fa8-98e4-8c9d2b0d287f
LOCATION:Schuler Books & Music\, 2660 28th St SE\, Grand Rapids\, MI 4951
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URL:https://findlocal.community/event/328490c4-3d1f-4fa8-98e4-8c9d2b0d287
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