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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.24 — 45,735 ratings — published 2020
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,398 ratings — published 2021
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,583 ratings — published 2015
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,432 ratings — published 2018
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,083 ratings — published 2014
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,065 ratings — published 2018
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,706 ratings — published 2016
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,676 ratings — published 2019
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.32 — 861 ratings — published 1993
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,163 ratings — published 2024
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.45 — 10,151 ratings — published 2019
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
by (shelved 26 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,921 ratings — published 2019
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,146 ratings — published 2005
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.30 — 924 ratings — published 2021
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.67 — 29,513 ratings — published 2011
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 4.27 — 4,265 ratings — published 2019
Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,768 ratings — published
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,999 ratings — published 2023
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 4.25 — 11,194 ratings — published 2010
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,768 ratings — published 2024
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,706 ratings — published 2015
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 41,192 ratings — published 2024
A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 17,380 ratings — published 2012
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,654 ratings — published 2013
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 11,406 ratings — published 2009
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,537 ratings — published 2006
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,931 ratings — published 2023
Wholehearted Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,005 ratings — published 2021
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,737 ratings — published 2021
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 — 13,029 ratings — published 2019
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 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.40 — 18,067 ratings — published 2025
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,297 ratings — published 2020
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,980,571 ratings — published 2018
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,310 ratings — published 2014
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,462 ratings — published 2006
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,113 ratings — published 2016
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,375 ratings — published 1996
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,416 ratings — published 1967
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,945 ratings — published 2021
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 4.44 — 2,753 ratings — published 2017
The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,821 ratings — published 2025
Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,010 ratings — published 2022
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 43,121 ratings — published 2006
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,212 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 — 9,173 ratings — published 2017
Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm Into a Tool of Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.64 — 1,909 ratings — published 2025
When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,211 ratings — published 2021
On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,228 ratings — published 2021
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,353 ratings — published 2021
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,365 ratings — published 2008
“But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity.
Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.”
― Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.”
― Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.”
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