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Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms.

Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was hom…

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

"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me."

As a twenty-three-year-old singer and the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, nothing in Shannon Harris's secular upbringing…

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When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publishers Weekly

Religious trauma is something that happens far more often than most people realize. …

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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me.”

Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife,…

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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of j…

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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evangelical church—the exvangelicals

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Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith

A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better. April Ajoy wouldn’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original so…

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Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy

In an explosive follow-up to The Power Worshippers, Katherine Stewart traces the disparate yet united “engine of unreason” roiling American culture and politics.

Why have so many Americans turned …

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Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

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Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back

A pioneer of the “exvangelical” movement examines how toxic right-wing beliefs took over American Christianity—and why people are leaving the church and speaking out against it

With the rise of Trumpis…

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American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

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Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

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Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

An investigation into the rise of the Christian right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision Evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy.

All across America, a storm is gathering: fro…

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Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump

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Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose

While evangelicalism dukes it out about who can be church leaders, the rest of the 98% of us need to be well equipped to see where we fit in God's household and why that matters. Recovering from Bibli…

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The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America's history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views diffe…

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Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

Discover what it means to be blessed and challenge the false beliefs many in the church hold about “the good life” and what it means to walk in communion with God. American Christians have developed a…

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A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House. New York Times bestselling ghostwriter…

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She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up

This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church about sexuality in order to raise strong, independent daughters who know who they are, use their voice…

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Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, hims…

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Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

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