"Erin Lane is a writer to watch--to read with focused attention now, certainly, but also to watch. Articulate, candid beyond all caution, and cosmopolitan in experience, she is passionate about the values, stances and experiences of the millennial generation to which she belongs. The result is one of the clearest and certainly one of the most informing pictures I have seen to date of the generation of young adults who presently are shaping the twenty-first-century church."
-Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence

"'I don't think I've ever looked forward to going to church for the people.' You have to love a book that makes this declaration. Erin Lane tells a good story about her curious condition as an incurable introvert who nonetheless loves the church--and is married to a pastor to boot. Part church history, part spiritual memoir, part theological treatise on Christian community, Lessons in Belonging suggests how we might shed 'illusions of how belonging should happen.' . . .

"Lane wants to help millennials and those who love them to understand the real countercultural impulse of the church: the permission it gives--indeed, the command it speaks--to 'start from the ground of our true being, a humanity fragile and flawed and dusty from the wrestling.' This message ought to be a refreshing one, especially for the hard-charging generation to which Lane belongs. But it also offers relief and rest and rescue to all churchgoers who long for more, regardless of how we label ourselves."
-Anne Blue Wills, Christian Century, December 23, 2015