18 Top nonfiction books like Broken Trust: …a practical guide to identify and recover from toxic faith, toxic church, and spiritual abuse by F. Remy Diederich

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Broken Trust: …a practical guide to identify and recover from toxic faith, toxic church, and spiritual abuse

By: F. Remy Diederich

4.39

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

FOR SPANISH VERSION see "Una Confianza Rota," Go you have suffered spiritual abuse from a toxic c…

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Cover of The Hospital: How I Survived the Secret Child Experiments at Aston Hall by Barbara O'Hare, Veronica Clark

1. The Hospital: How I Survived the Secret Child Experiments at Aston Hall

By: Barbara O'Hare , Veronica Clark

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking expose of the appalling abuse and experimentation carried out on vulnerable children at … read more

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2. The Attributes of God

By: Arthur W. Pink

4.51

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

This classic work of Arthur W. Pink invites readers to discover the truth about seventeen attribute… read more

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"Grace is that in God which brings into favor one justly in disfavor."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends "

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

3. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

By: Eric Metaxas

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate t… read more

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4. Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish

By: Misty Griffin

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish, it was the beginning o… read more

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5. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.42

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a … read more

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"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

Cover of I'll Start Again Monday: Break the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating Habits with Lasting Spiritual Satisfaction by Lysa TerKeurst

6. I'll Start Again Monday: Break the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating Habits with Lasting Spiritual Satisfaction

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.01

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

the missing companion for healthy eating plans that have left you feeling defeated So often we c… read more

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Cover of Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst

7. Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.16

Format: 288 pages, ebook

*#1 New York Times Bestseller* You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have do… read more

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Cover of Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It by Jennie Allen

8. Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

By: Jennie Allen

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embr… read more

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"Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Cover of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

9. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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10. 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

Cover of Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy by Aundi Kolber

11. Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy

By: Aundi Kolber

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

"In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aund… read more

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Cover of When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion by Laura E. Anderson

12. 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

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13. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

Cover of When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse by Chuck DeGroat

14. When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse

By: Chuck DeGroat

4.39

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Why does narcissism seem to thrive in our churches? We've seen the news stories and heard the rumor… read more

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Cover of Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Renew Your Soul by Jennifer   Tucker

15. Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Renew Your Soul

By: Jennifer Tucker

4.49

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Find hope amid anxiety through the spiritual practice of breath prayer in this beautifully illustra… read more

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Cover of The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Sheila Wray Gregoire

16. The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended

By: Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.56

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What if it's not your fault that sex is bad in your marriage? Based on a groundbreaking in-depth s… read more

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Cover of The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love by K.J.  Ramsey

17. The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love

By: K.J. Ramsey

4.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Walking through Psalm 23 phrase by phrase, therapist and author K.J. Ramsey explores the landscape … read more

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18. All the Scary Little Gods: A Memoir

By: Natalie Hoffman

4.66

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

"You don't know God." The church elder’s eyes locked on me from across the conference table. “He’s … read more

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Cover of Untwisting Scriptures That Were Used to Tie You Up, Gag You, and Tangle Your Mind by Rebecca Davis

19. Untwisting Scriptures That Were Used to Tie You Up, Gag You, and Tangle Your Mind

By: Rebecca Davis

4.46

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

Does the Bible really teach that you're supposed to yield your rights? What's the right way to look… read more

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Cover of Broken Trust: …a practical guide to identify and recover from toxic faith, toxic church, and spiritual abuse by F. Remy Diederich

20. Broken Trust: …a practical guide to identify and recover from toxic faith, toxic church, and spiritual abuse

By: F. Remy Diederich

4.39

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

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Cover of Patriarchy and Authority (Untwisting Scriptures #2) by Rebecca Davis

21. Patriarchy and Authority (Untwisting Scriptures #2)

By: Rebecca Davis

4.48

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you found that you can’t read the Bible without being sent back into a painful place? Have the… read more

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11 best-selling religion books like Broken Trust: …a practical guide to identify and recover from toxic faith, toxic church, and spiritual abuse by F. Remy Diederich

Transform Your Habits

The Attributes of God

Arthur W. Pink

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

Timothy J. Keller

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again

Lysa TerKeurst

4.16

Transform Your Habits

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

Shannon Harris

3.77

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23 Top nonfiction books like All the Scary Little Gods: A Memoir by Natalie Hoffman

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

John M. Gottman , Nan Silver

3.97

Transform Your Habits

His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage

Willard F. Harley Jr.

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Transform Your Habits

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

Caitlin Alifirenka , Martin Ganda , Liz Welch

3.44

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