Do you feel Illegitimate?

Illegitimate:

Memoir of a
Priest's Daughter

A secret shame.
A powerful longing.
A search for belonging.

In these pages you will read the powerful true story of one woman’s lifelong search for identity and love. The illegitimate daughter of a Catholic priest and an African-American teen, Christa Armstead struggled against poverty, prejudice, and rejection from her father growing up in inner-city LA. Finding the strength to thrive, Christa Armstead persevered.

Christa shares her journey with honesty and vulnerability. It will resonate with anyone who has ever felt like they didn't fit in and struggled to find their place in the world. Those who have experienced hardship, trauma, abandonment, or abuse will be pointed to the depth of God’s love for them and find hope.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646455478
Publisher: Redemption Press
Publication date: 07/18/2023
Pages: 274
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

Praises for the Book

  • “In Illegitimate, Christa Armstead examines the devastating impacts of classism, racism, sexism, abandonment, and abuse of power. Her emotional story offers authentic truth telling, delivering a memoir that will break your heart and put it together again. In the end, readers will cheer as she overcomes significant hardships to discover healing, love, and deep faith—a drastic contrast to the religious hypocrisy that wrecked her childhood family.”

    Julie Cantrell

    New York Times and
    USA Today bestselling author of Perennials.

  • “Illegitimate,” is the journey many have started, and some have accomplished. “Illegitimate” is more than a search and discover mission, It answers many plights that have attacked and ravaged the nation and the world. This, wonderful, heart-wrenching, and moving truth journal addresses the unspoken truths of the damage and residue of pain and suffering that the clergy scandal does not want to address.

    Earl A. Smith, Sr.

    Team Pastor, San Francisco 49ers
    and Golden State Warriors

  • “This book is indeed a must read! Christa Armstead’s story is a missing puzzle piece of healing, empowerment, and transformation that will fill a space many carry within their souls. Through her deep transparency she provides a roadmap for moving from pain to purpose, trauma to testimony, and from isolation to empowerment. Let this book bless you through whatever challenges your facing.”

    Dr. Efrem Smith

    Co-Lead Pastor of Midtown Church,
    Author of Killing Us Softly and The Post Black and Post White Church

  • Christa Armstead was born a poster child for religious hypocrisy. Her story of wresting redemption from Poverty and hopelessness, using the power of her faith to find a life path of love, creating a family guided by her contagious energy, and upending preconceived notions of what’s possible, is uplifting to anyone hoping to reorient their lives and use their God-given gifts to find peace.

    Ann Kreis

    Trustee Emeritus Berklee College of Music,
    Harvard Business School