You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
By: Jamie Lee Finch
4.06
Format: 82 pages, ebook
Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch’s “You Are…
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1. Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
By: Rachel Held Evans , Sarah Bessey
3.87
Format: 216 pages, ebook
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fe… read more
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2. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.98
Format: None pages,
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought… read more
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3. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more
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4. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
By: Jessica Valenti
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The United States is obsessed with virginity -- from the media to schools to government agencies. I… read more
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5. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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6. Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity
By: Alice Greczyn
4.41
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
When Alice Greczyn’s parents felt called by God to exchange worldly employment for heavenly provisi… read more
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7. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
By: Jon Ward
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more
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8. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Shannon Harris
3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more
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"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
9. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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10. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
11. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
4.21
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more
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"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
12. Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
By: Gregory D. Smithers
4.12
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, … read more
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13. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
By: Linda Kay Klein
4.17
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangeli… read more
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"The purity message nestles neatly into the larger “us"-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"Surviving gives you a very unique set of skills. It costs a lot. But it also makes you powerful."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"This illustration is picture-perfect purity culture. In short, women's sexuality must be just right, so that men can spiritually thrive."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"[T]he church had embedded the notion that sex was shameful so deeply into her brain that she couldn't shake it now that she was married and it was suddenly supposed to be okay."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
14. #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
By: Emily Joy Allison
4.35
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose t… read more
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15. You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
By: Jamie Lee Finch
4.06
Format: 82 pages, ebook
Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch’s “You Are… read more
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16. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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17. Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
By: Marlene Winell
4.31
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
This guide helps readers who have rejected rigid religious upbringings find new independence and se… read more
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18. Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms
By: Matthias Roberts
4.11
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American Evangeli… read more
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19. Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Good
By: Kimberly Ann Johnson
4.15
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From trauma educator and somatic guide Kimberly Ann Johnson comes a cutting-edge guide for tapping … read more
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20. Bad Theology Kills: Undoing Toxic Belief & Reclaiming Your Spiritual Authority
By: Kevin Garcia
4.22
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
Bad theology nearly took Kevin's life. They believed that God could never love them because they we… read more
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21. On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel
By: Brenda Marie Davies
4.04
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
“The problem was, because Purity is an idol (a validated and worshiped idol), I didn’t know who or … read more
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