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Breaking Up with God: A Love Story ReviewSarah Sentilles bares her soul in this rather complex memoir as she writes about many issues: growing up in a religious family where the Episcopalean mother begrudgingly joins the father's Catholic church, fighting bulimia, the usual issues of becoming an adult - but mainly, how she loses her faith. Her insecurities about herself are constantly intertwined with her relationship with God. I was struck by how vulnerable she pictures herself to be while waltzing right through Ivy League schools.
Readers are privy to her tumultuous spiritual life while she gets a degree in literature from Yale, serves in the Teach For America program (a "within our borders" version of the peace corps), attends Harvard Divinity School, gets in and then out of an Episcopalean ordination program for the priesthood, and finally, finishes a PhD in Theology at Harvard. At the commencement for Harvard Divinity School she was chosen to be the student speaker. Academically, this girl is not a lightweight - she presents herself to be more fragile than she apparently is.
Her writing is irreverent, matter-of-fact, and elegant - all at the same time: "It was like an arranged marriage, my faith, God like an older man: He invited my parents to his house. They sipped wine and ate bread. They promised him their firstborn."
Her split with organized religion had something to do with feminism. Most of her teachers were female and they made it painfully clear what a misogynist book the Bible is.It also had to do with the other well-known liberal theologians she studied under - Gordon Kaufman and John Shelby Spong, among others - while she simultaneously had a position in a church, preparing her for the Episcopal priesthood."The distance between the theology I studied in school and the theology being practiced in the pews and preached from the pulpit by the other priests on the staff was enormous.....Divinity school had been like an autopsy of my faith and it didn't look the same any more....The vision of God being worshipped in that place was so narrow. In our weekly staff meetings we barely talked about God. Theology, it seemed, was not the point of running a church. Being an institution was the point."
In the end, I believe this is a "coming of age" book. Our author grew up, got a first-rate education, and eventually found ways to express her spirituality in ways that suited her. Her story is completely unique - a bit of a soap opera, but hard to put down.
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