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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,470 ratings — published 2020
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,063 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 — 17,968 ratings — published 2021
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,273 ratings — published 2018
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,933 ratings — published 2014
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,480 ratings — published 2016
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,492 ratings — published 2018
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,648 ratings — published 2019
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,624 ratings — published 2024
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.32 — 838 ratings — published 1993
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,762 ratings — published 2019
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 — 4,100 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 — 9,657 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 — 871 ratings — published 2021
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,979 ratings — published 2010
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,540 ratings — published 2005
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.67 — 29,194 ratings — published 2011
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,641 ratings — published 2015
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,838 ratings — published 2023
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,154 ratings — published 2009
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,428 ratings — published 2013
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.29 — 32,933 ratings — published 2024
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,703 ratings — published 2019
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 283,903 ratings — published 2006
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,065 ratings — published 2016
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,006 ratings — published 2020
A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 17,112 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 — 2,813 ratings — published 2023
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.80 — 118,762 ratings — published 2021
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,356 ratings — published 1967
Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.46 — 922 ratings — published
Wholehearted Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,682 ratings — published 2021
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,828 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,872,962 ratings — published 2018
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 — 4,184 ratings — published 2014
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,356 ratings — published 2006
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 — 2,605 ratings — published 2017
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,737 ratings — published 2024
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,799 ratings — published 2014
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 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,979 ratings — published 2017
Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,949 ratings — published 2022
When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,175 ratings — published 2021
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,584 ratings — published 2006
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,228 ratings — published 2021
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,255 ratings — published 2015
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,301 ratings — published 2008
Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 632 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 — 11,094 ratings — published 1996
Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.28 — 453 ratings — published 2019
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,687 ratings — published 2012
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it—which always amounts to the same.”
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“Happiness is a flow between a playful construction and a painful deconstruction, undulating from a hampering past into a liberating 'now,' escorting a meandering flood of twists and turns, caressing the velvet sand of dreamy beaches or smashing sometimes into the rocks of reality. ("New York at arm's length of desire")”
― Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers
― Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers
