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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,172 ratings — published 2020
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 24,879 ratings — published 2015
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.38 — 17,412 ratings — published 2021
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,174 ratings — published 2018
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,386 ratings — published 2016
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,859 ratings — published 2014
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,214 ratings — published 2018
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,628 ratings — published 2019
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,691 ratings — published 2019
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,299 ratings — published 2024
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 23 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,017 ratings — published 2019
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,395 ratings — published 2019
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.31 — 851 ratings — published 2021
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.32 — 825 ratings — published 1993
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,897 ratings — published 2010
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,194 ratings — published 2005
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.67 — 29,056 ratings — published 2011
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,622 ratings — published 2015
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,766 ratings — published 2023
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.98 — 10,984 ratings — published 2009
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,347 ratings — published 2013
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 281,536 ratings — published 2006
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.29 — 29,035 ratings — published 2024
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,569 ratings — published 2019
A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 17,013 ratings — published 2012
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,748 ratings — published 2023
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.81 — 114,304 ratings — published 2021
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,862 ratings — published 2020
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,041 ratings — published 2016
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,321 ratings — published 1967
Wholehearted Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,512 ratings — published 2021
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,127 ratings — published 2014
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,541 ratings — published 2017
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,755 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,821,005 ratings — published 2018
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,322 ratings — published 2006
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,137 ratings — published 2015
What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,898 ratings — published 2017
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,146 ratings — published 2024
Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,918 ratings — published 2022
When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,160 ratings — published 2021
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,178 ratings — published 2021
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,276 ratings — published 2008
Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 618 ratings — published
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 10,958 ratings — published 1996
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,590 ratings — published 2014
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,480 ratings — published 2012
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,609 ratings — published 2023
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,593 ratings — published 2009
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,259 ratings — published 2004
“I would see
one man fallen off me
shambling down the street.”
―
one man fallen off me
shambling down the street.”
―
“I feel that pinch of guilt. I wish I could belong. And if things were always like they are right now, I think I would. I could be a part of this kind, chili-night family of friendly words and gentle smiles. I love my parents and my brother. Sometimes I even like them.
But this is only a piece of them. A bright, glowing corner. The rest of them is cold and piercing. A set of spikes in the shape of a cross. We've been taught that Christ is to be all. That Jesus Christ is to consume us, be every aspect of us; that we are to seek and burn and refine every speck of sin and discontent. The parts of my family that I love, that I feel closest to—most warmly recieved and tenderly nurtured by—are the non-Jesus parts. And if they strive to make Christ the whole, is there any love left, any space left, for me?”
― Gay the Pray Away
But this is only a piece of them. A bright, glowing corner. The rest of them is cold and piercing. A set of spikes in the shape of a cross. We've been taught that Christ is to be all. That Jesus Christ is to consume us, be every aspect of us; that we are to seek and burn and refine every speck of sin and discontent. The parts of my family that I love, that I feel closest to—most warmly recieved and tenderly nurtured by—are the non-Jesus parts. And if they strive to make Christ the whole, is there any love left, any space left, for me?”
― Gay the Pray Away
