18 Top nonfiction books like Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion by Matthias Roberts

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Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

By: Matthias Roberts

4.22

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Holy Runaways speaks to people who are feeling ignored, oppressed, or rejected by their religious c…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion by Matthias Roberts , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Chr… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bessey's Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith book and Matthias Roberts's Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

  • christian
  • memoir
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

2. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs

By: Peter Enns

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more

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3. Learning to Walk in the Dark

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learnin… read more

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4. UnClobber

By: Glennon Doyle Melton , None

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude t… read more

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5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • spirituality
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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6. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

By: Russell D. Moore

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • religion
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

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8. 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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  • christian
  • memoir
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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9. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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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

Similar categories in Laura E. Anderson's When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion book and Matthias Roberts's Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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11. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

By: Emily Nagoski

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections book and Matthias Roberts's Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

  • nonfiction
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12. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

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13. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

By: Andrew L. Whitehead

4.20

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."-- Library Journal Power. Fear. Viol… read more

Similar categories in Andrew L. Whitehead's American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church book and Matthias Roberts's Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • theology
"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

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14. A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal

By: Amena Brown

4.40

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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15. Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World

By: Jacqui Lewis

4.03

Format: 219 pages, Hardcover

A healing antidote to our divisive culture, full of evocative storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and p… read more

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  • memoir
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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16. 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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  • christian
  • memoir
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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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17. #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

Similar categories in Emily Joy Allison's #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing book and Matthias Roberts's Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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18. Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

By: Sarah Stankorb

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet—its networks, freedom of expression, … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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19. Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

By: Matthias Roberts

4.22

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Holy Runaways speaks to people who are feeling ignored, oppressed, or rejected by their religious c… read more

Similar categories in Matthias Roberts's Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion book and Matthias Roberts's Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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20. God After Deconstruction

By: Thomas Jay Oord

4.25

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Deconstruction is hard!Bad views of God and harmful experiences lead many of us to deconstruct. But… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils by Thomas Jay Oord

21. God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils

By: Thomas Jay Oord

4.03

Format: 212 pages, ebook

Many people wrestle with questions of evil. Some appeal to mystery (“God’s ways are not our ways”).… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith

Sarah Bessey

4.36

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Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

Russell D. Moore

4.31

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The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Shannon Harris

3.77

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Sarah McCammon

4.21

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4.63

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Tim Alberta

4.45

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Scot McKnight

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