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