Suggested Resources

Recommended Books

• Dealing with purity culture
  • Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
  • Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy by Tina Schermer Sellers
  • Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber
• Rethinking the bible. (Christian Theology)
  • How the Bible Actually Works by Peter Enns (I highly recommend this author. He has a number of other great books as well.)
  • Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans (Rachel Held Evan would fit within the label of progressive Christianity, but her work often discusses the problems with evangelical Christianity)
  • The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate by John Walton (Upstanding the ancient context and genre of writing that is included in genesis one. The author leaves room for many different interpretations of the biblical creation story.)
• Rethinking Heaven and Hell
  • Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell
• Rethinking God (Progressive Christianity)
  • The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe by Richard Rohr
• Rethinking LGBTQ+ (Christian Theology)
  • God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships by Matthew Vines
• Ex-Evangelicals and their stories
  • Bad Theology Kills: Undoing Toxic Belief & Reclaiming Your Spiritual Authority by Kevin Garcia
  • The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns
• Philosophy
  • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard

Recommended Podcasts

• Dirty Rotten Church Kids by Josh & Adrian, “Two millennial dads figuring out life beyond the evangelical bubble.”
• Existential Happy Hour by Micah J. Murray. “A voice crying in the void. conversations about god and art and doubt and wonder. stories of disbelief. radiance and math and music and pixels. consciousness expressed as vibrations.”
• https://www.propheticimaginationstation.com/episodes Krispin and D.L. Mayfield are a dynamic duo who delight in overthinking evangelical pop culture artifacts of the 80s and 90s. Discussion about evangelical media like “Adventures in Odyssey,” DC talk, and C.S. Lewis. And their recent “Strongwilled” project has been amazing.
• Leaving Eden Podcast “A podcast about the IFB Cult as told by survivor Sadie Carpenter, with her co-host Gavri’el HaCohen. This podcast covers the IFB, the history of the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement, other cults, other religions, and the real and present threat that cults and cult ideologies pose to society as a whole. Our goal is to promote freedom of mind, freedom of thought, and freedom of religion.” (This is the same IFB denomination that help found PCC, and the church that my partner grew up in.)
• Kitchen Table Cult Podcast “Kitchen Table Cult unpacks all the things Kieryn and Eve learned at the kitchen tables of their childhoods in conservative Christian homeschooling families. We drill down on various topics about Quiverfull, the Religious Right, and our childhoods in high-demand groups (otherwise known as cults).”

Recommended Websites

• BioLogos “BioLogos invites the church and the world to see the harmony between science and biblical faith.” A great resource for anyone starting to look into evolution, science, and the bible.

Blogs and Writers

• https://substack.com/@dlmayfield “Late diagnosed non-binary autistic born into white evangelicalism. Now writing about healing from authoritarian/christian fascist environments. Current special interest: fascism, miniatures, and somatic therapy.” I also highly recommend their podcast and Strongwilled project they are writing with their partner.