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Read: Addie Zierman’s memoir, When We Were on Fire is an account of a devout teen (all the youth group culture!) questioning her faith. When growing up within evangelicalism was confusing or harmful: Read these alternative Christian and religious publications: Sojourner’s Magazine, the Christian Century, Commonweal, Comment Magazine, American Magazine, Religion Dispatches, Religion News Service, Red Letter Christians.

Welcome to the idea of the cosmic Christ and to the mystical and kind teacher, Father Richard Rohr (gotta love those Fransiscans). Listen: The Cosmic Egg series from Another Name for Every Thing podcast. When you need to remember that Christ is bigger than our denominations: Watch: “The Heretic,” a documentary that follows Rob Bell after his controversial book Love Wins was skewered by the evangelical community. When your former church labels you a “heretic”: Read: Barbara Brown Taylor’s Leaving Church is an understated and moving story of a minister leaving ministry. Listen: “Quietly Out the Side Door” episode from the Dirty Rotten Church Kids podcast tells how the hosts-a former youth pastor and worship leader-were shown the exit at the church where they’d ministered for years. Listen: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast documents one of the most dysfunctional churches and the fall out of its ministry. When your church “family” harmed or abused you: Read: Dante Stewart’s memoir, Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle, which echoes the themes of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, while directly addressing the racism inherent in the white American church.

Mayfield’s essay collection, The Myth of the American Dream : Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety and Power breaks all the party lines. Read: Anne Lamott’s essay collection, Traveling Mercies was one of the first books I read by a serious Christian who was also a democrat. Listen: The Holy Post podcast’s “Jesus and John Wayne series” with Kristen Du Mez gives the back story for how Republican came to mean Evangelical Christian. When you want to stay Christian, but you have the “wrong” politics: So, today, I’m sharing the stories and artistic expressions that document deconstruction or refreshed me during reconstruction as I began to journey toward Jesus in fresh ways. I am never interested in the extreme ends, but more, the middle journeying. Nor are they “f**k all Christians and churches everywhere” resources. These are not “fixing your doubts” resources.