Unveiling Hidden Truths: How Stephanie Stalvey’s "Everything in Color" Transforms the Love Story Genre
However, Stalvey demonstrates that all these issues are symptomatic. The true rot resides in the way evangelicalism teaches its adherents, particularly children, to see themselves as depraved sinners who deserve nothing more than death.
“I kept trying to reconcile what I thought our faith was about,” Stalvey writes, “the way in which we are healed by giving and receiving compassionate grace — with what I kept encountering: an ice-cold theological equation that ultimately justified the disposal of anyone who ‘got it wrong.’” Stalvey’s work, like a well-aimed arrow, sticks right in the heart of the issue, showing all those other complications as ripples that reverberate out from this corrupted center.
