most of this is really good, and offers beautiful imagery for the grief of leaving a faith community and what it offers to folks who manage to get out
my only critiques are 1)it does meander a good bit and sometimes seems like he has lost his own point in the imagery building and 2)he is straining with some of his scriptural interpretations (his opening ideas about the mustard seed are an immediate example, later he talks about jesus' words about judgment and in the former I think he just interprets something the passage doesn't say, in the second I think he's trying to make a passage acceptable that we could just go 'yknow what? this passage is painful and maybe we should reconsider even giving it weight') It was a curious flaw in the book, particularly given his background and the fact that there ARE passages that would match and support what he's trying to say in the book (I was genuinely surprised at him not using the book of Acts very much--that would seem to align very well with the concept of "holy runaways")
the memoir parts are the best parts