To be fair to him, Tim Alberta 1)is a reporter, so he's gonna write like a reporter and 2)does lay out his whole family and personal background at first so he's not acting like he didn't come out of this segment of Christianity. But this man has got some daddy issues that crop up in his constant need to tell us why his dad was different than yknow every other conservative evangelical male pastor 🙄 and he is also WAY too sympathetic towards all these folks. I would have liked more analysis and examination, rather than kind of long interviews and numerous quotations from people he either talks to or listens to.
Also I feel like if he'd talked sooner to some women, and people of color, and if he'd talked to any queer people, and people who have got through the deconstruction process, it would've made the whole book more interesting. But he gets 3 stars for at least doing this kind of work, calling stuff out for being wrong, knowing scripture and citing it well, and displaying some righteous anger when needed.