Unveiling Hidden Truths: How Stephanie Stalvey’s "Everything in Color" Transforms the Love Story Genre
Many people I’ve encountered who explore departures from evangelicalism err on the side of negativity. After being raised within a teleological framework that punishes deviance with damnation, those of us who have left that community often feel compelled to defend our apostasy. We can go above and beyond when articulating what was wrong, exchanging one kind of narrow binary for its inverse. In this way, some ‘ex-vangelical’ writing can be reduced to polemic or propaganda: ‘hysterical’ arguments against the creeds to which we formerly clung. We use big words and heady arguments — like I’m doing now — to hide our woundedness.
