EDJ
Evangelical Deconstruction Journey
By Christena Cleveland
This is a phenomenal book in which Christena makes a case for tearing down our image of God as a white male and fashioning a new God-concept for ourselves. “Whitemalegod” is the term she uses in her book to encompass a very strict, moralistic, …
By Tina Schermer Sellers
Probably the best book I've read when it comes to reversing religious sexual shame!! It deconstructs purity culture / the old Christian sexual ethic, then reconstructs a new Christian sexual ethic, and on top of that it gives embodiment …
By Ruth Everhart
I really appreciated Ruth's exegesis of Biblical passages in this book. David & Bathsheba stands out to me as Ruth so powerfully provokes the question: can anyone refuse or truly consent to the king? The imbalance of power makes it impossible for …
By Meghan Tschanz
This book will break you and remake you in the area of gender equality, if you let it!
I appreciated Meghan's personal experience as a missionary to various countries, trying to help change and expose issues of sex slavery and women's rights …
By Jessica Valenti
This book is brutal.
Jessica Valenti grabs purity culture by the throat and chokes the life out of it.
She talks about “purity” being sexist and racist, it is geared at females far more than males and white females are treated as …
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