Books
Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores by Diane Langberg.
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church by David Johnson and Jeff VanVonderen.
Healing Spiritual Abuse: How to Break Free from Bad Church Experience by Ken Blue.
Exposing Spiritual Abuse by Mike Fehlauer.
Spiritual Abuse: Religion at Its Worst by June Hunt.
Spiritual Abuse Recovery: Dynamic Research on Finding a Place of Wholeness by Barbara M. Orlowski.
Faith That Hurts, Faith That Heals/Understanding the Fine Line Between Healthy Faith and Spiritual Abuse by Stephen Arterburn and Jack Felton.
The following books are more about spiritual and emotional abuse in marriage, but many of the principles apply to abusive churches too.
The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It by Leslie Vernick.
A Cry for Justice: How the Evil of Domestic Abuse Hides in Your Church by Jeff Crippen and Anna Wood.
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren’t by Henry Cloud
The following are secular books but still many helpful observations.
Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft.
In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People by George K. Simon.
Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad-and Surprising Good-About Feeling Special by Dr. Craig Malkin.
The following are out of print but may still be purchased used.
Recovering from Churches that Abuse by Ronald Enroth (or download Free PDF)
Recovery from Spiritual Abuse by Juanita and Dale Ryan
Blogs
HeadHeartHand Series
A Reformed “Spotlight”: Fighting Spiritual Abuse in the Reformed Church | HeadHeartHand
Reformed “Spotlight”: What is Spiritual Abuse? | HeadHeartHand
Reformed “Spotlight”: 10 Characteristics of Mr Controller | HeadHeartHand
Reformed “Spotlight”: What about the Victims? | HeadHeartHand
Reformed “Spotlight”: The Humblest Conference I’ve Ever Attended | HeadHeartHand
Phil Monroe Series
Spiritual Trauma and Abuse: Assessments and Interventions | Phil Monroe
Spiritual Abuse: What it is and Why it Hurts | Phil Monroe
Why do some spiritual leaders abuse power? | Phil Monroe
What factors support the use of spiritual abuse? | Phil Monroe
Why are some people prone to spiritual abuse? | Phil Monroe
Belief System Supports for Spiritual Abuse? |Phil Monroe
Do you enable spiritual abuse? | Phil Monroe
Preventing spiritual abuse? Listen to that little voice plus |Phil Monroe
Spiritual Trauma and Abuse: Assessments and Intervention | Phil Monroe
Other Blogs
Spiritual Abuse: What it is and why it hurts | Phil Monroe
Warning: Dangerous people | Wisdom for life
Evangelicals and Toxic Masculinity | Samuel D. James
Reflections on Fallen Pastors |Timothy Raymond
What is Spiritual ABUSE? | Geeky Christian
Spiritual Abuse: It’s Not Just Celebrity Pastors | Gentle Reformation
How Church Bullies and Abusers Deceive Us « The Reformed Reader
Help in Overcoming Church Hurt | Desiring God
Podcasts
Culture, Christendom, and Christ with Diane Langberg.
Are We Pastors or Platform Builders? | Mortification of Spin
Notice: We are posting here links to two valuable resources dealing with spiritual abuse. Ronald Enroth is a leading scholar on cults and cultism respected by both secular and religious media. His books on spiritual abuse are considered classics. Both of these books are now available free online in pdf. format. These volumes will help the victims of spiritual abuse and their families cope with reentry into the Christian mainstream.
If you or someone you know has been abused spiritually or has been a part of a spiritually abusive church we urge you to take advantage of these free resources. We will make these books a permanent part of the website in our Spiritual Abuse section
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