Recommended Reading
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Religious Deconstruction & Recovery
Leaving faith, naming harm, and understanding high-control belief systems
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Leaving the Fold – Marlene Winell
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Faith Unraveled – Rachel Held Evans
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Jesus and John Wayne – Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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The Power Worshippers – Katherine Stewart
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Cults in Our Midst – Margaret Thaler Singer
Atheism & Critique of Religion
Letting go of God through reason, skepticism, and moral clarity
- God Is Not Great – Christopher Hitchens
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The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
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Breaking the Spell – Daniel C. Dennett
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Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris
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Outgrowing God – Richard Dawkins
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No Nonsense Spirituality – Brittany Hartley
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The Age of Reason – Thomas Paine
Secular Humanism, Meaning & Ethics Without God
Rebuilding purpose, morality, and dignity without belief
- Good Without God – Greg Epstein
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The Little Book of Humanism – Andrew Copson
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Man's Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
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The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
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Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
Decolonization & Unlearning White Supremacy
Dismantling whiteness, hierarchy, colonial Christianity, and racialized power
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White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
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How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
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The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
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The Color of Compromise – Jemar Tisby
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Jesus and the Disinherited – Howard Thurman
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Christianity and the Making of the Modern World – Jeremy Lent
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Decolonizing the Mind – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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My Grandmother’s Hands – Resmaa Menakem
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So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
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The Dawn of Everything – David Graeber & David Wengrow
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Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
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A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn