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Broken Trust
F. Remy Diederich
Diederich offers a pastoral account of spiritual abuse and recovery, with attention to distorted authority, boundaries, and rebuilding trust.
ChristianApproachable256 pages
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The Color of Compromise
Jemar Tisby
Historian Jemar Tisby traces white Christian complicity in American racism from slavery and segregation through the civil-rights era and contemporary institutions. Written as a narrative history with an explicit Christian moral call, it shows how churches and leaders repeatedly chose compromise, silence, paternalism, or active support for racial hierarchy.
Christian — liberation/contextualModerate256 pages
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Jesus and John Wayne
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces how ideals of militant masculinity, patriarchal authority, nationalism, celebrity, and political power became central to much of white American evangelical culture. Moving through popular books, ministries, media figures, military imagery, scandals, and electoral politics, she argues that evangelical support for Donald Trump reflected a long formation rather than a sudden abandonment of stated values.
Psychological / academicModerate368 pages
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Redeeming Power
Diane Langberg
Psychologist Diane Langberg examines power as a capacity that operates through individuals, relationships, systems, and religious institutions. Drawing on decades of work with trauma and abuse, she considers deception, coercion, institutional loyalty, leadership, gender, and the tendency to protect a Christian organization or reputation while sacrificing people, then measures power against the self-giving pattern of Jesus.
ChristianModerate224 pages
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When Narcissism Comes to Church
Chuck DeGroat
Chuck DeGroat describes how charisma, shame, idealization, and organizational anxiety can reward narcissistic leadership, then discusses accountability and healing. It helps visitors name a system without reducing every harmful leader to a diagnosis.
ChristianApproachable200 pages