Resources, Research and Recommendations
Information about America's Changing Religious Landscape,
Toxic Theology, and Religious Trauma
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES
Toxic Theology as a Contributing Factor in Complicated Grief
The problem of God in the presence of grief
Fowler’s Stages of Faith Development
Spiritual But Non-Religious Rituals for Loss and Grief
There are no "Stages of Grief"
Treating Religious Trauma
Near-Death Experiences And Spiritual Well-Being
Differences and Commonalities Among OBEs
OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST
Spiritual Abuse Resources
Evangelicals Leaving the Fold
About Prayer
Can Religion Give You PTSD?
There is Nothing New About “New Consciousness”
What is Spiritual Materialism?
Spiritual Bypassing in Buddhist Communities
The Fourth Commandment and Child Abuse
PEW RESEARCH CENTER
Decline of Christianity
Americans Leaving Religion
Atheists Know More About Religion
RECOMMENDED PODCASTS
LEAVING RELIGION
Born Again Again
The How-to Heretic
Thank God I'm Atheist
Recovering from Religion
Ask Doctor Death
RELIGIOUS SCHOLARSHIP
The Bart Ehrman podcast
The NT Pod
Introduction to the New Testament
AN IMPORTANT FILM
American Heretics
Books We Recommend
RELIGION/THEOLOGY
How Jesus Became God- Bart Ehrman
Misquoting Jesus - Bart Ehrman
A History of God - Karen Armstrong
God is a Verb - David Cooper
The Third Jesus - Deepak Chopra
Quantum Theology - Diarmuid O'Murchu
The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
The Bible with Sources Revealed - Richard Elliott Friedman
Zealot - Reza Aslan
Who Wrote the Bible - Richard Elliott Friedman
Why Christianity Must Change or Die - John Spong
Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World - John Spong
Original Blessing - Matthew Fox
DEATH AND GRIEF
The Smell of Rain on Dust - Martin Prechtel
Dying Well - Ira Byock -
Hello from Heaven - Bill Guggenheim
What Really Matters- Dr. Karen Wyatt
Final Gifts - Maggie Callahan
What Happens When We Die - Sam Parnia
Erasing Death - Sam Parnia
Turning the Corner on Grief Street - Terri Daniel
Grief and God - Terri Daniel
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessell VanDer Kolk
Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy - Worden
When Grief is Complicated - Alan Wolfelt
LEAVING RELIGION/DECONSTRUCTING
Breaking Their Will - Janet Heimlich
Choosing our Religion - Elizabeth Drescher
Christianity Is Not Great - John Loftus
Christianity After Religion by Diana Butler Bass
The Future of Faith - Harvey Cox
Why Christianity Must Change or Die - John Spong
Belief Without Borders - Linda Mercadante
Leaving the Fold - Marlene Winnel
Unfollow - Megan Phelps Roper
Educated - Tara Westover
Unorthodox - Debra Feldman
Crazy for God - Frank Schaeffer
Pure - Linda K Klein
Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason - Seth Andrews
Examples of Toxic Theology That Can Complicate the Grief Process
. A page from a popular national grief organization
. A video about "appropriate Christian grief"
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