107 books
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,933 ratings — published 2020
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 24,919 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 — 17,561 ratings — published 2021
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,203 ratings — published 2018
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,878 ratings — published 2014
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 — 4,415 ratings — published 2016
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,284 ratings — published 2018
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,633 ratings — published 2019
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,717 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 — 6,400 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 — 4,038 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 — 9,471 ratings — published 2019
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.32 — 827 ratings — published 1993
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.31 — 856 ratings — published 2021
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,304 ratings — published 2005
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 — 10,922 ratings — published 2010
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 — 29,098 ratings — published 2011
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,623 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 — 1,787 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 — 11,043 ratings — published 2009
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 — 12,607 ratings — published 2019
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,367 ratings — published 2013
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,137 ratings — published 2006
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.29 — 30,305 ratings — published 2024
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,776 ratings — published 2023
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,902 ratings — published 2020
A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 17,054 ratings — published 2012
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.81 — 115,621 ratings — published 2021
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 — 5,050 ratings — published 2016
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,336 ratings — published 1967
Wholehearted Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,564 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,834,235 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 — 4,147 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 4.44 — 2,554 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 — 2,782 ratings — published 2021
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,195 ratings — published 2021
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,662 ratings — published 2014
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,324 ratings — published 2006
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,181 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 — 8,922 ratings — published 2017
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,319 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 — 1,927 ratings — published 2022
When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,165 ratings — published 2021
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,349 ratings — published 2006
On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,203 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 — 7,280 ratings — published 2008
Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 621 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 — 10,996 ratings — published 1996
Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.28 — 450 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 — 7,547 ratings — published 2012
“A timely and necessary guide for anyone caught between religion and non-belief.
There is a third path -- guided by reason, grounded in nature, and open to discovery.”
― An Alternative to Believing in Nothing: Deism for the 21st Century
There is a third path -- guided by reason, grounded in nature, and open to discovery.”
― An Alternative to Believing in Nothing: Deism for the 21st Century
“The goal is not to tear down the church, but to free you from an imitation of it.”
― Fire in the Whole: Embracing Our Righteous Anger with White Christianity and Reclaiming Our Wholeness
― Fire in the Whole: Embracing Our Righteous Anger with White Christianity and Reclaiming Our Wholeness












