Altar’d Thoughts (will james)
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"Author of Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith — coming October 2026 through Compass & Altar. Writing about inherited faith, deconstruction, and what remains."
Countdown to disappointment day
#memoir #deconstruction #adventism
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October 2, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Countdown to disappointment day
#memoir #deconstruction #adventism
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“I do NOT want to put this down! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BOOK!!”
- my cousin…but still!
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- my cousin…but still!
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Greatly Disappointed
Greatly Disappointed is a memoir about growing up inside a high-commitment religious tradition and slowly coming to terms with the limits of certainty, authority, and doctrinal control.Raised within S...
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September 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
“I do NOT want to put this down! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BOOK!!”
- my cousin…but still!
bookshop.org/p/books/grea...
- my cousin…but still!
bookshop.org/p/books/grea...
Seriously! Is everybody else’s feed just book reviews and puppies or have I just been living right?
September 22, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Seriously! Is everybody else’s feed just book reviews and puppies or have I just been living right?
My whole scroll was just dog after dog after dog, so here’s my dog
September 21, 2026 at 7:29 PM
My whole scroll was just dog after dog after dog, so here’s my dog
Greatly Disappointed Mix.03: the Un-Knowing
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Will James (@altardthoughts)
Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith
Mix.03 - The Un-Knowing
If part two was about trying to hold things together, part three is where we actively start taking things apart.
A living a...
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September 5, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Greatly Disappointed Mix.03: the Un-Knowing
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Greatly Disappointed mix.02
The time of trouble ‘tractlist’ and mood setting playlist
#memoir #deconstruction
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The time of trouble ‘tractlist’ and mood setting playlist
#memoir #deconstruction
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Will James (@altardthoughts)
Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith
Mix.02 - The Time of Trouble.
The time of trouble isn’t about questions. It’s about the consequences of denying them.
It’s about the world, the pat...
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August 28, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Greatly Disappointed mix.02
The time of trouble ‘tractlist’ and mood setting playlist
#memoir #deconstruction
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The time of trouble ‘tractlist’ and mood setting playlist
#memoir #deconstruction
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I’ve never had so much fun that going home didn’t seem like a good idea
August 22, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I’ve never had so much fun that going home didn’t seem like a good idea
If you believe liberals are traveling to DC to sabotage the reflecting pool then I have a watch, a phone, some cryptocurrency, shoes, a couple hats, a fake stolen election, an insurrection, a peaceful war, low price hikes, and a bible to sell you.
June 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
If you believe liberals are traveling to DC to sabotage the reflecting pool then I have a watch, a phone, some cryptocurrency, shoes, a couple hats, a fake stolen election, an insurrection, a peaceful war, low price hikes, and a bible to sell you.
What happens after the apocalypse doesn’t happen?
Not just to the movement, but to the generations born inside the aftermath.
Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith.
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#Exvangelical #ReligiousTrauma #seventhdayadventist #exsda #Deconstruction #selfpublishing #Memoir
Not just to the movement, but to the generations born inside the aftermath.
Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith.
Compassandaltar.com
#Exvangelical #ReligiousTrauma #seventhdayadventist #exsda #Deconstruction #selfpublishing #Memoir
May 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
What happens after the apocalypse doesn’t happen?
Not just to the movement, but to the generations born inside the aftermath.
Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith.
Compassandaltar.com
#Exvangelical #ReligiousTrauma #seventhdayadventist #exsda #Deconstruction #selfpublishing #Memoir
Not just to the movement, but to the generations born inside the aftermath.
Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith.
Compassandaltar.com
#Exvangelical #ReligiousTrauma #seventhdayadventist #exsda #Deconstruction #selfpublishing #Memoir
7 yrs ago I wrote a blog 'coming out' as no longer believing in a historically literal Genesis creation story A form of that argument ends up in my upcoming memoir, #greatlydisappointed and surprisingly, now 7 yrs later, someone wrote a review on that blog. I'd like to share that with you.
#exsda
#exsda
May 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
7 yrs ago I wrote a blog 'coming out' as no longer believing in a historically literal Genesis creation story A form of that argument ends up in my upcoming memoir, #greatlydisappointed and surprisingly, now 7 yrs later, someone wrote a review on that blog. I'd like to share that with you.
#exsda
#exsda
Thank you, Rachel
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Thank you, Rachel
What Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith owes to Rachel Held Evans
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May 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Thank you, Rachel
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Thank you Pete
What Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith owes to Peter Enns
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April 23, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith
Coming this fall.
Join the waitlist at compassandaltar.com
#indieauthor #spiritualmemoir #exsda #exvangelical #faithjourney
Coming this fall.
Join the waitlist at compassandaltar.com
#indieauthor #spiritualmemoir #exsda #exvangelical #faithjourney
April 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith
Coming this fall.
Join the waitlist at compassandaltar.com
#indieauthor #spiritualmemoir #exsda #exvangelical #faithjourney
Coming this fall.
Join the waitlist at compassandaltar.com
#indieauthor #spiritualmemoir #exsda #exvangelical #faithjourney
I spent the entirety of Godzilla Minus 1 waiting for the beat to drop.
January 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I spent the entirety of Godzilla Minus 1 waiting for the beat to drop.
‘If you don’t give me a peace prize I’m gonna start taking countries by force.’
- an insane person
- an insane person
January 20, 2026 at 5:16 PM
‘If you don’t give me a peace prize I’m gonna start taking countries by force.’
- an insane person
- an insane person
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
A guy who became my friend when we were 6 because I would protect him from bullies on the playground because he was too small to defend himself would like me to set time aside for a debate for him to convince me that America needs to be a bully.
I am who I’ve always been.
I am who I’ve always been.
January 15, 2026 at 1:07 PM
A guy who became my friend when we were 6 because I would protect him from bullies on the playground because he was too small to defend himself would like me to set time aside for a debate for him to convince me that America needs to be a bully.
I am who I’ve always been.
I am who I’ve always been.
It’s like knowing both engines have gone out and you just have to wait on gravity. This sucks
January 15, 2026 at 2:01 AM
It’s like knowing both engines have gone out and you just have to wait on gravity. This sucks
I give up
January 14, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I give up