Resources on Deconstruction
If you’re interested, here is a list of resources, in no particular order, that have helped me along the way on my deconstruction journey. I don’t necessarily endorse these authors, but if I’ve found something helpful in their work, then I’ve listed them here.
I’ve also got a very long “To-Read” list on Goodreads, so I’ll update this list as I find more:
· Inspired, Searching for Sunday, Faith Unraveled (previously titled Evolving in Monkey Town), and A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans
· The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
· Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
· UnClobber by Colby Martin
· Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell
· Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
· Untamed by Glennon Doyle
· The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever by Jamie Wright
· The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
· That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation by David Bentley Hart
· Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor
· I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
· Educated by Tara Westover
· The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe by Richard Rohr
· Boy Erased by Garrard Conley
· The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones
· God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
· Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversional, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible by Peter Enns and Jared Byas
· Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber
· Facing the Music: My Story by Jennifer Knapp
· You are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity by Jamie Lee Finch
