Greatly Disappointed follows my journey as an African American attorney raised in the Bible Belt inside the Seventh-day Adventist church: a world where every day was a race against an invisible clock toward Christian perfectionism, church building, and an impending apocalypse that would one day leave me and my family fugitives from a hostile world.

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Faced with the unbearable weight of those expectations, I trace the pathways that produced them through the eyes of a child, a teenager, and ultimately the attorney I became. In searching for the God of love, I found instead a god more cosmic accountant than friend.

Part confession, part case file, Greatly Disappointed arrives at an uncomfortable verdict: certainty was the wound, and that losing it may be the only way to everything worth having.