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The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,060 ratings — published 2021
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,815 ratings — published 2020
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,104 ratings — published 2015
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,643 ratings — published 2015
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,663 ratings — published 2024
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,532 ratings — published 2018
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,235 ratings — published 2021
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,284 ratings — published 2018
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.28 — 33,598 ratings — published 2024
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,828 ratings — published 2024
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.32 — 840 ratings — published 1993
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.31 — 876 ratings — published 2021
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,443 ratings — published 2013
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,649 ratings — published 2019
Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,003 ratings — published
The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.38 — 721 ratings — published
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.40 — 17,328 ratings — published 2023
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.00 — 157,177 ratings — published 2023
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,826 ratings — published 2023
The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,354 ratings — published 2011
Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,693 ratings — published 2023
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,835 ratings — published 2021
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That’s Great News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,119 ratings — published 2019
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,490 ratings — published 2016
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,984 ratings — published 2010
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 3.80 — 119,475 ratings — published 2021
After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.18 — 775 ratings — published 2020
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,879 ratings — published 2025
Awake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.16 — 35,754 ratings — published 2025
God Didn't Make Us to Hate Us: 40 Devotions to Liberate Your Faith from Fear and Reconnect with Joy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.56 — 534 ratings — published
Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm Into a Tool of Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.70 — 1,296 ratings — published 2025
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.30 — 189,268 ratings — published 2025
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,534 ratings — published 2025
Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.03 — 345 ratings — published
Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing (A Clinically Informed and Compassionate Guide)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.35 — 665 ratings — published
The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,621 ratings — published
The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,006 ratings — published 2023
The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.30 — 237 ratings — published
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.43 — 7,005 ratings — published 2024
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,770 ratings — published 2019
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,489 ratings — published 2022
Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.04 — 859 ratings — published 2023
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,478 ratings — published 2003
Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.13 — 324 ratings — published 2018
American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.19 — 878 ratings — published
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,198 ratings — published 2023
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,071 ratings — published 2019
A Generous Orthodoxy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,259 ratings — published 2004
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.37 — 73,590 ratings — published 2018
Heavy Burdens (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as deconstructing)
avg rating 4.46 — 848 ratings — published
