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.
  • 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
  • The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate by John Walton
• 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
  • The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe by Richard Rohr
• Rethinking LGBTQ+
  • 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
  • On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel by Brenda Marie Davies
  • The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns
• Philosophy
  • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard
• Mysticism and Eastern Religions
  • This by Michael Gungor

Recommended Podcasts

• Dirty Rotten Church Kids by Josh & Adrian, “Two millennial dads figuring out life beyond the evangelical bubble.”
• The Liturgists Podcast “The Liturgists Podcast is a genre-bending, chart-topping exploration of the most interesting and pressing topics of our time through the lenses of art, science, and faith.”
• 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.”

Recommended Youtube Channels

• God is Grey – “Your guide to becoming an inquisitive, fearless, SEX POSITIVE, free thinking Christian in the modern world.”

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.