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The Secret Thoughts Of An Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith (2012)

by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1884527388 (ISBN13: 9781884527388)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Crown & Covenant Publications

review 1: The tone of this book is uneven. The first two-thirds are spent sharing her pretty incredible story of converting to Christianity and having that radically upend her life. (At the time she was a tenured English professor at Syracuse University, was in a same-sex relationship, and was heavily involved in the LGBT movement and feminist causes.) Of course becoming a Christian was traumatic for her! :-). She couldn't deny the truth, yet accepting this meant reframing her beliefs about everything. Soon after she left Syracuse, and within a few years was married with an adopted family of her own.I love that a person of her background is a believer. She (rightly) mourns how Christians and the church have treated the LGBT community. There is a lot to be said about this and Rosaria... more has a lot of informed insight she can share with the church to help us love better. That being said, her tone is often condescending toward the church. I get her frustration, I really do! She is a well-educated, critically thinking woman from a non-evangelical background who is suddenly part of the culture she once criticized. But she makes easy targets of homeschooled kids and megachurches. The last third of the book is more of a defense of her adoption practices and advocacy (awesome) and her orthodox Presbyterian community.
review 2: Stunning story of one woman's conversion from lesbian, tenured, English professor to being married to a pastor of a small Presbyterian and Reformed denomination, homeschooling 4 adopted kid, none of which are racially similar to her or her husband. An amazing testimony, not of a woman who made the right decisions, but of a God who will pursue His people regardless of the lengths or cost necessary. Butterfield also aptly defends her strong theological convictions on adoption, exclusively psalmody, grace, mercy, and reaching out to the least and the lost.My only complaint is that is ended too soon. I am sure there is so much more she could have written. Secret Thoughts is one of the few books that ended far too soon. less

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