Help, care, community, and deconstruction

Resources

Resources for Women

Search for local shelter, advocacy, legal support, reproductive health care, abortion care, and other practical help.

DomesticShelters.org Search by ZIP code or city for domestic-violence shelters, programs, advocates, counseling, and other local services. Find local domestic-violence help WomensLaw.org Choose your state to find shelters, advocates, local programs, referrals, and legal information for survivors of abuse. Find advocates and shelters Planned Parenthood Health Center Finder Search for in-person or telehealth reproductive care, including birth control, STI services, abortion care, and more. Find reproductive health care Bedsider Clinic Finder Find providers for birth control, STI testing, Pap smears, and other sexual and reproductive health services. Find a provider AbortionFinder.org Search verified abortion providers and find funding, travel, legal, medical, and logistical support. Find verified abortion care I Need An A Find clinics, pill-by-mail options, current laws, abortion funds, and support organizations based on your location. Search abortion-care options 211 Search local housing, food, transportation, health care, financial assistance, and other community services. Find local help

Rainbow Community Resources

Find local LGBTQIA+ community, housing and homelessness resources, affirming health care, and trans-specific support.

LGBT Near Me Enter your ZIP code to search thousands of LGBTQ+ community resources, including centers, doctors, lawyers, youth support, social groups, and more. Search local LGBTQ+ resources CenterLink Find LGBTQ+ community centers that can connect people with local services, support, programming, and referrals. Find an LGBTQ+ center True Colors United Resources focused on LGBTQ+ youth and young adults experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Explore housing resources Trans Lifeline Resource Library Search trans-specific resources for relocation assistance, mutual aid, jobs, health care, legal transition, peer support, and more. Search trans resources OutCare OutList Search for LGBTQ+ and trans/gender-diverse affirming health-care providers by location, state, specialty, and telehealth availability. Find affirming health care HUD Find Shelter Search nationwide for shelters, food pantries, health clinics, clothing, and homelessness services in your community. Find shelter and local services

Bad Bible Hub

Check out Bad Bible Hub, join the Bad Bible Friends Discord for community, and while you’re there, read the LIPs — the List of Irreconcilable Passages.

Explore Bad Bible Hub Deconstruction resources, biblical criticism, and more from Bad Bible Hub. Visit Bad Bible Hub Join Bad Bible Friends Discord A community for people unraveling religious beliefs and finding connection after Christianity. Join the Discord Read the LIPs The LIPs, or List of Irreconcilable Passages, collect some of the Bible’s most horrific and morally disturbing passages — the ones that raise serious questions about claims that the Bible reflects a perfectly good and loving God. Read the LIPs

Study & Research

Tools for digging into biblical languages, Jewish texts, other religious scriptures, early Christianity, and the ancient Near Eastern world.

Blue Letter Bible Read and compare Bible translations and dig into Hebrew and Greek with interlinear, lexicon, concordance, and original-language tools. Study the Bible and original languages STEP Bible A powerful Bible study tool from Tyndale House for comparing translations, Hebrew and Greek, lexical information, manuscripts, and textual variants. Explore STEP Bible Sefaria Search the Hebrew Bible alongside Jewish texts including the Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Rashi, other commentaries, and reference works. Explore Jewish texts and commentary Quran.com Read and search the Qur’an with Arabic text, multiple translations, tafsir, word-by-word tools, recitations, and study features. Study the Qur’an Book of Mormon The official online text from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with the full Book of Mormon and its reference materials. Read the official LDS text Ethiopian Orthodox Canonical Books The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s own overview of its biblical canon, including the books that make up its broader Old and New Testament traditions. Explore the Ethiopian canon The Bart Ehrman Blog Accessible, non-sectarian scholarship on the New Testament, historical Jesus, manuscripts, early Christianity, canon, women in early Christianity, and related topics. Read Bart Ehrman’s scholarship Digital Hammurabi Dr. Joshua Bowen and Megan Lewis make the ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Mesopotamian texts, ancient languages, and cultural context accessible to non-specialists. Explore the ancient Near East

Mental Health

Secular therapy, recovery from high-control religion, and organizations supporting life outside religion.

Secular Therapy Project Search for secular therapists who use evidence-based methods without supernatural or religious elements. Search secular therapists Psychology Today: Secular & Nonreligious A therapist directory filtered specifically for secular and nonreligious counseling. Search therapists Cult Education Institute A large archive on destructive groups plus recovery-and-support links, therapist resources, and other help for former members. Explore recovery resources Freedom of Mind Resource Center Education and professional support for people leaving destructive cults, controlling relationships, and unhealthy group dynamics. Find support and services Freedom From Religion Foundation National education, advocacy, and resources focused on nontheism and separation of church and state. Visit FFRF

Recommended Viewing

Creators CrystalJae recommends in the deconstruction space.

Think Beyond Dogma Thinker is one of the most biblically educated women I know. She has studied biblical Hebrew, studies the Bible daily, and brings that knowledge into thoughtful, fascinating conversations about scripture, faith, and deconstruction. Open channel Bored Agnostic Bored Agnostic brings philosophy down from the ivory tower and makes it understandable. She offers a fresh perspective, asks great questions, and helps people learn how to think critically without making philosophy feel inaccessible. Open channel Leaving Faith Sarah is a breath of fresh air in the deconstruction space. She talks openly about hell, fear, and the idea that nobody deserves eternal punishment, while asking the bigger question: What does it say about a God who would create such a place? Open channel JoelReadsBible Joel is my dear friend, one of Mezzo’s best friends, and his Star-Crossed buddy. Joel reads Bible so you don’t have to, taking it a chapter at a time with ridiculous voices, funny commentary, and a way of making the Bible genuinely enjoyable to listen to. Open channel Mezzo Science, philosophy, humor, and music from Joel’s Star-Crossed buddy and one of CrystalJae’s dear friends in the deconstruction space. Open channel