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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 4.25 — 40,978 ratings — published 2020
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,023 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 — 17,829 ratings — published 2021
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,254 ratings — published 2018
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,912 ratings — published 2014
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 — 4,461 ratings — published 2016
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,429 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 4.03 — 1,647 ratings — published 2019
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,550 ratings — published 2024
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.32 — 834 ratings — published 1993
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
by (shelved 25 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,750 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 23 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,076 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 — 9,596 ratings — published 2019
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.31 — 867 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 4.24 — 10,966 ratings — published 2010
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,457 ratings — published 2005
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.67 — 29,172 ratings — published 2011
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,635 ratings — published 2015
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,818 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 — 11,119 ratings — published 2009
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,401 ratings — published 2013
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.29 — 32,108 ratings — published 2024
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 — 12,660 ratings — published 2019
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 283,424 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 4.23 — 5,060 ratings — published 2016
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,967 ratings — published 2020
A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 17,088 ratings — published 2012
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,801 ratings — published 2023
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.81 — 117,657 ratings — published 2021
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,351 ratings — published 1967
Wholehearted Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,645 ratings — published 2021
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,810 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,861,023 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 — 4,169 ratings — published 2014
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,347 ratings — published 2006
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 4.43 — 2,594 ratings — published 2017
Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.48 — 795 ratings — published
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,757 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 — 8,965 ratings — published 2017
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,561 ratings — published 2024
Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,943 ratings — published 2022
When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,171 ratings — published 2021
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,528 ratings — published 2006
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,214 ratings — published 2021
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,221 ratings — published 2015
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,291 ratings — published 2008
Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 631 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 — 11,066 ratings — published 1996
Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.28 — 453 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 — 7,645 ratings — published 2012
“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )”
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“In submitting to suffering, Jesus absorbs and transforms it into our salvation. Hanging on the cross, the sky went black, and Jesus absorbed the darkness of the world into his body and spirit. Overtaken by it, he lay in the grave for three days. On Easter morning, he was raised in victory over death, defeating the darkness that overtook him on the cross with the light of life.
This is what it means to persevere. While suffering is the result of the evil and brokenness of the world, we, like Christ, absorb the darkness of suffering into our bodies, transform it, and release it back into the world as light. We absorb hate and release it back into the world as love. We absorb lies and release them back into the world as truth. We absorb death and release it back into the world as life. We don’t see ourselves as simply victims of suffering but as agents of transformation who mock death and scorn shame, knowing that God’s victorious rule and reign over all evil will be made manifest through our perseverance.”
― Walking Through Deconstruction: How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith
This is what it means to persevere. While suffering is the result of the evil and brokenness of the world, we, like Christ, absorb the darkness of suffering into our bodies, transform it, and release it back into the world as light. We absorb hate and release it back into the world as love. We absorb lies and release them back into the world as truth. We absorb death and release it back into the world as life. We don’t see ourselves as simply victims of suffering but as agents of transformation who mock death and scorn shame, knowing that God’s victorious rule and reign over all evil will be made manifest through our perseverance.”
― Walking Through Deconstruction: How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith
