Tia Levings

Damned If She Does

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Women are exhausted by the head-spinning conundrum of Christian patriarchy, which demands they hide the realities and crises of their personal lives to uphold a reputation and that they hold the ladders for men to climb, and that shelters abusers rather than those harmed. Damned If She Does is a book of windows in which women open up about what's really happening on the Christian Right and why they are right to walk away.”

Famished

Women

“Famished is a visceral unveiling of the secret lives of Christian girls. Evangelicalism has a long history of the ‘skinny white woman,’ and Rollins’s bold memoir not only traces the roots but also exposes the sexualized purity culture that teaches girls to fear men, their own bodies, and especially anything beyond their control. The high cost of religious scrupulosity and institutionalized religious diet culture is evident on every page of this remarkable debut.”

Weapons of Worship

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Those who've deconstructed their faith know there's a point at which we make a full turn and examine our complicity. Weapons of Worship is the work of a brave and honest worship leader turned journalist willing to critique the system he participated in and to explain how and why evangelical music is weaponized.”