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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,111 ratings — published 2020
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,377 ratings — published 2015
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,808 ratings — published 2021
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,029 ratings — published 2014
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,373 ratings — published 2018
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,840 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 4.25 — 4,588 ratings — published 2016
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,664 ratings — published 2019
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.33 — 849 ratings — published 1993
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,958 ratings — published 2024
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,972 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 — 8,862 ratings — published 2019
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 24 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,214 ratings — published 2019
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.67 — 29,376 ratings — published 2011
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,918 ratings — published 2005
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.30 — 899 ratings — published 2021
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,102 ratings — published 2010
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,676 ratings — published 2015
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.28 — 37,988 ratings — published 2024
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,939 ratings — published 2023
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,571 ratings — published 2013
Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,470 ratings — published
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 — 11,304 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 — 12,916 ratings — published 2019
A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 17,272 ratings — published 2012
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 286,615 ratings — published 2006
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,102 ratings — published 2016
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,400 ratings — published 2024
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,882 ratings — published 2023
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.79 — 124,431 ratings — published 2021
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,186 ratings — published 2020
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 — 4,263 ratings — published 2014
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,425 ratings — published 2006
Wholehearted Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,912 ratings — published 2021
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,910 ratings — published 2021
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,386 ratings — published 1967
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,934,456 ratings — published 2018
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 — 2,698 ratings — published 2017
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,064 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 — 9,108 ratings — published 2017
Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,993 ratings — published 2022
When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,197 ratings — published 2021
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,919 ratings — published 2006
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,302 ratings — published 2021
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,407 ratings — published 2015
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 19,890 ratings — published 2004
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 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.41 — 14,815 ratings — published 2025
Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm Into a Tool of Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.66 — 1,676 ratings — published 2025
On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,223 ratings — published 2021
After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.18 — 784 ratings — published 2020
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it—which always amounts to the same.”
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“I was ready to rip up the counterfeit lease to my life. I belonged here just as much as anyone else, and I was going to reclaim full ownership of a life of goodness and beauty on my terms.”
― Golden Child: My Descent to Scapegoat and Rise to Freedom
― Golden Child: My Descent to Scapegoat and Rise to Freedom
