Theme
Theology & Faith
Belief as a personal question and as a political one, and the places those two stop being separable.
16 books
most recent read first
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang · 2025 · read Aug 2026Fugelsang's argument is that the fight isn't religion versus secularism.
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
Brenda Wineapple · 2024 · read May 2025A Tennessee schoolteacher's prosecution for teaching evolution was a small-town case.
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
Katherine Stewart · 2025 · read Mar 2025America's antidemocratic right runs on three groups, in Stewart's reporting from its conferences, strategy meetings and religious…
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
Katherine Stewart · 2020 · read Mar 2025What first mobilized the modern religious right in the late 1970s?
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
Mike Rinder · 2022 · read Feb 2025A billion years is the term of the Sea Organization contract Mike Rinder signed after high school, having been raised in…
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church
Hahrie Han · 2024 · read Oct 2024Han's case is that relationships, not corporate-style diversity training, can drive deeper change on race.
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta · 2023 · read Dec 2023Alberta's case is that much of American evangelicalism has traded the pursuit of Christ's kingdom for partisan power, and its…
Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
Jon Ward · 2023 · read Nov 2023Two decades inside evangelical circles, then two outside them: that's where Jon Ward writes from, starting as a pastor's son at…
Counting the Cost
Jill Duggar · 2023 · read Sep 2023Jill Duggar discovered she had unknowingly signed a performance contract before her televised wedding.
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
Robert P. Jones · 2020 · read Sep 2023Robert P.
Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot
Seth Andrews · 2022 · read May 2023Communion symbolism, crucifixion imagery, odd Bible passages.
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
Linda Kay Klein · 2018 · read Feb 2023Twelve years of research, hundreds of interviews, and a teenager who broke up with her boyfriend because she believed God…
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Beth Allison Barr · 2021 · read Feb 2023Written out of the record: that's where Barr says the women who led in the ancient and medieval church ended up.
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
Philip S. Gorski · 2022 · read Feb 2023White Christian nationalism is a distinct ideology fusing racial, religious and national identity, and Gorski and Perry trace it…
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez · 2020 · read Nov 2022Kristin Kobes Du Mez's argument is that white evangelical support for Donald Trump wasn't a betrayal of evangelical values.
Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
Andy Stanley · 2022 · read Oct 2022Churches that tie themselves to a party trade their mission for partisan wins, in Andy Stanley's view.