Very Distant Lands Newsletter

See yourself for real

on Jason Kirk's exvangelical bildungsroman "Hell is a World Without You"

Adam Fleming Petty
Jun 28, 2024
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Longtime readers of this newsletter will know that one of my ongoing obsessions—whether I like it or not—has to do with my evangelical upbringing, and how such base experiences can be transmuted into the gold of art. Can evangelicals see themselves represented? I’ve asked before. Do they even want to?

One of the most interesting responses to this questio…

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