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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,963 ratings — published 2020
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.38 — 19,119 ratings — published 2021
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,467 ratings — published 2015
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,400 ratings — published 2018
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,052 ratings — published 2014
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,939 ratings — published 2018
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,668 ratings — published 2019
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,641 ratings — published 2016
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.33 — 855 ratings — published 1993
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,060 ratings — published 2024
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
by (shelved 26 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,896 ratings — published 2019
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 — 10,078 ratings — published 2019
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,017 ratings — published 2005
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.30 — 906 ratings — published 2021
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 4.27 — 4,234 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 — 29,453 ratings — published 2011
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,971 ratings — published 2023
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,136 ratings — published 2010
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 39,654 ratings — published 2024
Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,640 ratings — published
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,684 ratings — published 2015
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,606 ratings — published 2013
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,617 ratings — published 2024
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 3.99 — 11,355 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 — 12,969 ratings — published 2019
A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 17,322 ratings — published 2012
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,575 ratings — published 2006
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,906 ratings — published 2023
Wholehearted Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,966 ratings — published 2021
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.79 — 126,183 ratings — published 2021
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,242 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 — 4,289 ratings — published 2014
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,443 ratings — published 2006
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,108 ratings — published 2016
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,399 ratings — published 1967
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 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,615 ratings — published 2025
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,926 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,957,659 ratings — published 2018
Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,003 ratings — published 2022
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,310 ratings — published 1996
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,129 ratings — published 2014
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,723 ratings — published 2017
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 — 9,142 ratings — published 2017
Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm Into a Tool of Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.65 — 1,798 ratings — published 2025
When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,202 ratings — published 2021
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 43,031 ratings — published 2006
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,330 ratings — published 2021
UnClobber (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,454 ratings — published 2016
On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,229 ratings — published 2021
After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as deconstruction)
avg rating 4.18 — 790 ratings — published 2020
“I would see
one man fallen off me
shambling down the street.”
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one man fallen off me
shambling down the street.”
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“Love is a stage door to happiness. Happiness is a delicate dance between opposites: construction and deconstruction, peace and struggle, permanence and fleeting moments. (Love, Happiness, and Insight)”
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