Deconstruction


Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Anasazi Vision by True  NorthFrom Doctor to Healer by Erica M. ElliottGod is Alive and Well by Dr Robert W WalkerSacred Crossroads by Mitch RussoTouch Enabled by Dante F. Lupinetti
Progressive Christian Fiction
22 books — 18 voters
Pure by Linda Kay Klein#ChurchToo by Emily Joy AllisonHell Is a World Without You by Jason KirkThe Purity Myth by Jessica ValentiSex, God, and the Conservative Church by Tina Schermer Sellers
Healing from Purity Culture
17 books — 7 voters

God is Alive and Well by Dr Robert W WalkerBetter Ways to Read the Bible by Zach W. LambertJesus Feminist by Sarah BesseyHell Bent by Brian ReckerThe Justice of Jesus by Joash P. Thomas
Faith-adjacent
11 books — 2 voters

Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 by Hajime IsayamaDeath Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi OhbaDeadman Wonderland, Vol. 1 by Jinsei KataokaBlack Butler I by Yana TobosoFuture Diary, Volume 01 by Sakae Esuno
Transgressive Manga
87 books — 158 voters

Erik Pevernagie
“ Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" ) ...more ”
― Erik Pevernagie

“ Authenticity had become essential to my survival. I craved it in myself and others. It had taken so much painstaking attunement to excavate my truest self. I couldn't deny her again just to maintain belonging in my faith community. If I didn't actually believe these things, why was I saying that I did? And was I being intellectually honest if I called myself a Christian if I didn't believe many of its doctrines and practices? ...more ”
― Lauren Smallcomb, Golden Child: My Descent to Scapegoat and Rise to Freedom

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