Resources

Here is a list of many of the books, podcasts, and art that have helped me un-learn and re-learn how to live. You may notice that many of these things are not explicitly “this is how you don’t be a fundamentalist” and that’s on purpose. There’s no silver bullet to un-learn and re-learn a thing. At the risk of stating the obvious–it takes time and listening to voices that aren’t your own and being willing to change your mind. Everyone’s process is different, but these are some of the people who have helped me along the way.

Books

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor

Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women by Carolyn Custis James

The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman

All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein

All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister

I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays by Sloane Crosley

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle by Sarah Krasnostein

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz

God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz

Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better by Myisha Cherry

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth

Arts

Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, PBS Great Performances

American Utopia by David Byrne

Newsletters

Culture Study by Anne Helen Petersen

Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz