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01858aam a2200217 i 4500 001 B217BA54E8AE11ED9CDDC11555ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230502010046 008 220721s2023 nyu e 000 0aeng d 020 $a 9781632461476 020 $a 1632461471 035 $a (OCoLC)1336702449 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d IMD $d OEM $d OCLCF $d SILO 100 1 $a Amodeo, Gloria Beth, $e author. 245 10 $a God's ex-girlfriend : $b a memoir about loving and leaving the evangelical Jesus / $c Gloria Beth Amodeo. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b IG Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a 261 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "Gloria Beth Amodeo was a freshman in college when she met someone who would change the trajectory of her life. Cate was smart, beautiful, and an evangelical Christian. Soon, Gloria had left behind her troubled family--which included her mother's mental illness and addiction to pills--and joined Cate as a member of Campus Crusade for Christ (now known as Cru). Embracing her newfound belief system, Gloria became a cultural warrior for Jesus, militantly focused on converting everyone she met to her conservative brand of Christianity. Over the next seven years, she spent spring breaks preaching to MTV partygoers in bikinis; hung out in bars as she tried to convert her fellow creative writing students in New York City; and kept a strenuous hold on her virginity, as she considered herself to be in a relationship with God. Slowly, she came to realize that a God who believed that people were going to hell, sex before marriage was a sin, and that men had the final say in all marital and relationship matters, among other things, was not a God she wanted to "date" any longer"--Amazon.com. 941 $a 1 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230502010814.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B217BA54E8AE11ED9CDDC11555ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search