Rev. Brandon J. Moore

Some people survive their childhoods. Brandon Moore survived his - the abuse, the shame, the undiagnosed mental illness, the church that told him his body was sinful and his questions were dangerous - and then turned around and walked back into the wreckage to help others find their way out. The Sacred and the Shattered is a memoir about what happens when faith refuses to die even when everything around it does.
It's about a boy who found God in a chicken coop chapel on Wednesday nights, a pastor who got kicked out of his denomination for telling the truth, a husband who learned what love actually feels like at the exact moment his life fell apart, and a man who is still - stubbornly, loudly, imperfectly - held. Raw, funny, theologically honest, and relentlessly human, this book is for anyone who has ever felt too broken for the church, too faithful to walk away, or too tired to keep pretending they have it together.
Brandon doesn't offer easy answers. He offers something better: proof that God was sitting in the rubble the whole damn time. You are sacred. You are shattered. You are welcome here.