Please Read: Disclaimer This is a wide variety of resources from a broad spectrum of people from different religious, political, and lifestyle perspectives. This list of resources is a very limited and vastly incomplete collection of what is available on the topic of religious abuse. I hope to continue to grow my list of resources. Please feel free to contact me with 1 or 2 of your favorite resources – those that have been most helpful to you! Connie A Baker is not responsible for the content of these resources. The opinions and content of these resources do not necessarily represent the views of Connie. Connie A Baker connieabaker.com Table of Contents ❖ General Resources ❖ Christian Colleges And Universities ❖ Complementarianism / Egalitarianism ❖ Homeschool Movement ❖ Institute For Basic Life Principles / Advanced Training Institute / Bill Gothard ❖ No Greater Joy / Created To Be His Helpmeet / To Train Up A Child / Michael & Debi Pearl ❖ Mars Hill / Mark Driscoll ❖ Nouthetic Counseling / Biblical Counseling ❖ Quiverfull / Duggars ❖ Purity Movement / Sex Education ❖ Seventh Day Adventist Note: Click a topic to navigate around the booklet. Table of Contents ❖ Sovereign Grace Ministries / Covenant Life Church / CJ Mahaney ❖ Southern Baptist Convention / SBC Affiliated Churches ❖ Vision Forum / Doug Phillips ❖ Wallbuilders / David Barton / Ray Comfort ❖ LGBTQ Issues ❖ Church And Race ❖ Church And Politics ❖ Domestic Abuse ❖ Sexual Abuse ❖ Physical, Emotional, Spiritual Healing ❖ Memoirs ❖ Documentaries Note: Click a topic to navigate around the booklet. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Articles ➢ “6 Reasons Why It’s OK To Tell My Story Of Abuse (Even if it causes someone else pain.)” - Connie Baker, MA LPC ➢ “10 Ways to Spot Spiritual Abuse” - Mary DeMuth, ChurchLeaders ➢ “20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Psychopaths Use to Silence You” - Shahida Arabi, Thought Catalog ➢ “Breaking Five Unhealthy Friendship Habits from Fundamentalism” - Cindy Brandt, Unfundamentalist Parenting Note: Click the article name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Articles ➢ “It’s Called Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome, and Yes It’s Real” - Post Traumatic Church Syndrome ➢ “Power & Transformation - Five Stages of Power” - Kathy Escobar ➢ “Proof That It’s not a Membership Covenant but a Legally Binding Document” - The Wartburg Watch ➢ “Religious Trauma Syndrome: How Some Organized Religion Leads to Mental Health Problems” - Valerie Tarico Note: Click the article name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Articles ➢ “Spiritual Terrorism: Christianity Without Insanity” - Boyd C. Purcell, PhD ➢ “’Survivor’ Bloggers Join Forces to Reveal Christian Fundamentalist Abuses” - Alisa Harris, The Daily Beast ➢ “Things Not Even Tolerated by the World: Christians and Hypocrisy” - Samantha Field ➢ “To The One Bruised By the Church” - Tanya Marlow, Off the Page Note: Click the article name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Articles ➢ “Top Ten Signs of a Spiritually Abusive Church” - Elizabeth Esther ➢ “9 Anti-Abuse Practices Your Church Needs to Adopt” - Becky Castle Miller, CBE International Note: Click the article name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Books ➢ FaithShift - Kathy Escobar ➢ Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith - Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, Troy Jackson, Soong-Chan Rah ➢ How to Be a Christian Without Going to Church: The Unofficial Guide to Alternative Forms of Christian Community - Kelly Bean ➢ The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority - David Johnson and Jeff VanVonderen Note: Click the book name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Books ➢ Traumatized by Religious Abuse: Courage, Hope and Freedom for Survivors - Connie Baker ➢ Spiritual Abuse: How to Identify and Break Free From Toxic Churches Without Losing Your Faith - Casey Sebella ➢ Broken Trust: a practical guide to identify and recover from toxic faith, toxic church, and spiritual abuse (Overcoming Series: Spiritual Abuse) (Volume 4) - F. Remy Diederich ➢ Let Us Prey: The Plague of Narcissist Pastors and What We Can Do About It - R. Glenn Ball Note: Click the book name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Books ➢ Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion - Marlene Winell ➢ Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma - Teresa B. Pasquale Richard Rohr (Foreword) ➢ Healing Spiritual Abuse: How to Break Free From Bad Church Experience - Ken Blue ➢ Toxic Churches-Restoration from Spiritual Abuse - Marc Dupont Note: Click the book name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Books ➢ Churches That Abuse - Ronald M. Enroth ➢ Recovering From Churches That Abuse - Ronald M. Enroth ➢ Soul Repair: Rebuilding Your Spiritual Life - Jeff Vonvonderen, Dale Ryan, Juanita Ryan ➢ Let Us Prey-The Plague of Narcissistic Pastors and What We Can Do About It - R. Glenn Ball, Darrell Pulls, Steven J. Sandage ➢ Healing Spiritual Abuse: How to Break Free From Bad Church Experience - Ken M. Blue Note: Click the book name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Websites ➢ Connie Baker ➢ Church Exiters ➢ The Inner Anarchist blog ➢ International Cultic Studies Association ➢ Rachel Held Evans ➢ Spiritual Sounding Board ➢ Tim Fall ➢ Under Much Grace ➢ The Wartburg Watch ➢ Nadia Bolz-Weber Note: Click the website name to learn more. Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ❑ Websites ➢ Kathy Escobar ➢ NakedPastor ➢ Jonathan Merritt Note: Click the website name to learn more. ❑ Other Resources ➢ The Liturgists Podcast ➢ “Spiritual Trauma” Note: Click the website name to learn more. Christian Colleges And Universities ❑ Articles ➢ “By Grace Alone” - Kathryn Joyce, The American Prospect ➢ “God is Done with You: Pensacola Christian College and Sexual Violence” - Fred Clark, Slacktivist ➢ “Jane’s Account of Rape, Response of Master’s University to Her Claims, and a Breaking Development Confirming Details #DoYouSeeUs” - Julie Anne Smith, Spiritual Sounding Board ➢ “New Lawsuit Alleges Baylor Players Gang- Raped Women as ‘Bonding Experience’” - Camila Domonoske, NPR Note: Click the article name to learn more. Christian Colleges And Universities ❑ Articles ➢ “Rape Victims Say Bob Jones Told Them to Repent” - Claire Gordon, Al Jazeera America ➢ “Sexual Assault at God’ Harvard” - Kiera Feldman, New Republic Note: Click the article name to learn more. Complementarianism/Egalitarianism ❑ Articles ➢ “10 Ways Male Privilege Shows up in Church” - Gail Wallace, The Junia Project ➢ “Do Not Bury Your Talents Due to Gender Roles” - Jory Micah ➢ “Ephesians 5:21-33: How Paul Turns Headship on Its Head” - Patrick Franklin, The Junia Project ➢ “Men Are Not Lords Over Women – Overcoming the Unbiblical Savior Complex” - Tim Fall Note: Click the article name to learn more. Complementarianism/Egalitarianism ❑ Articles ➢ “Why Christians Can Do Better Than the ‘Billy Graham Rule’” - Tina Osterhouse, CBE International Note: Click the article name to learn more. Complementarianism/Egalitarianism ❑ Websites ➢ CBE International ➢ The Junia Project ➢ Jory Micah Note: Click the website name to learn more. Complementarianism/Egalitarianism ❑ Other Resource ➢ Pete Enns, B4NP Podcast Episode 32: “Moving Beyond Patriarchy,” with Carolyn Custis James Note: Click the resource name to learn more. Homeschool Movement ❑ Articles ➢ “6 Things You Should Know about Voddie Baucham” - Nick Dukote, Homeschoolers Anonymous ➢ “7 Ways to Support Your LGBTQ Homeschooled Kid No Matter Your Beliefs” - HARO ➢ “Doug Phillips: The Sex Abuse Lawsuit Conclusion and Epilogue of His Vision Forum Shipwreck” - Julie Anne Smith, Spiritual Sounding Board ➢ “Five Ways to Empower Your Homeschooled Child to Cope with Trauma” - HARO Note: Click the article name to learn more. Homeschool Movement ❑ Articles ➢ “No Unbelievers Allowed: How Homeschooling Became a Christians-Only Club” - Nick Dukote, Homeschoolers Anonymous ➢ “Toby Willis’ Conviction Is the Latest in a String of Scandals to Hit the Christian Homeschool Community” - Libby Anne, Love, Joy, Feminism ➢ “When Homeschool Leaders Looked Away: The Old Schoolhouse Cover-up” - Hännah Ettinger and R. L. Stollar, Homeschoolers Anonymous Note: Click the article name to learn more. Homeschool Movement ❑ Websites ➢ Homeschoolers Anonymous ➢ Homeschooling’s Invisible Children Note: Click the website name to learn more. Institute for Basic Life Principles / Advanced Training Institute / Bill Gothard ❑ Articles ➢ “Four Tools of Spiritual Manipulators” - Recovering Grace ➢ “How the Teachings of Emotional Purity and Courtship Damage Healthy Relationships” - Recovering Grace ➢ “Twelve Characteristics of Fundamentalist Societies that Shelter Sexual Abuse” - Recovering Grace Note: Click the article name to learn more. Institute for Basic Life Principles / Advanced Training Institute / Bill Gothard ❑ Website ➢ Recovering Grace Note: Click the website name to learn more. Mars Hill / Mark Driscoll ❑ Articles ➢ “11 Reasons Why People Will Follow Mark Driscoll Again Soon” - The Naked Pastor ➢ “Mark Driscoll’s Mars Hill – A Tutorial on Spiritual Abuse” - The Wartburg Watch ➢ “Patheos Invite Mark Driscoll to Blog on Their Site” - Florence Goldea, Christian Today ➢ “Translating Robert Morris’s Manipulative Introduction of Driscoll” - Crying Out for Justice Note: Click the article name to learn more. Mars Hill / Mark Driscoll ❑ Websites ➢ Joyful Exiles ➢ Warren Throckmorton Note: Click the website name to learn more. No Greater Joy / Created