{"id":185,"date":"2023-02-28T03:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mksafetynet.org\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:46:41","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mksafetynet.org\/?page_id=185","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Information\/Research on MKs and TCKs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Belonging-Everywhere-Nowhere-Insights-Counseling\/dp\/0615696066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Belonging Everywhere and Nowhere: Insights Into Counseling the Globally Mobile,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Lois Bushong<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Between-Worlds-Essays-Culture-Belonging-ebook\/dp\/B00SW08NJ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Between Worlds: Essays on Culture and Belonging,<\/a> <em>Marilyn Garnder<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/fg9wzBd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pieces of Purple: The Greatness, Grit, and Grace of Growing Up MK,<\/a> <em>Mich\u00e8le Phoenix<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lost-MK-Robin-Kietzman\/dp\/3639514025\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1K6V095PJKY6O&amp;keywords=the+lost+mk&amp;qid=1686154513&amp;sprefix=the+lost+mk%2Caps%2C160&amp;sr=8-1&amp;ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.18630bbb-fcbb-42f8-9767-857e17e03685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Lost MK,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Robin Kietzman and Patricia Pike<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/5t4Kdkb\">The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism,<\/a> <em>Holly Berkley Fletcher<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/6raDvcX\">Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds,<\/a> <em>Pollock and Van Reken<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unstacking-Your-Grief-Tower-Processing\/dp\/B09GZKQ1P8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unstacking Your Grief Tower: A Guide to Processing Grief as an Adult Third Culture Kid,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Lauren Wells<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Memoirs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48gYLn0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abraham\u2019s Daughter: Healing Trauma from a Childhood in Missions,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Joy Smalley<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Africa-My-Soul-Childhood-Interrupted\/dp\/1072243881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Africa in My Soul: Memoir of a Childhood Interrupted,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Cheryl King Duvall<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chameleon-Days-Tim-Bascom\/dp\/0618658696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Tim Bascom<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Little-Knew-Collusion-Misconduct\/dp\/0933451180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Litte We Knew: Collusion and Confusion with Sexual Misconduct,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Dee Ann Miller<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Journeying-Mercies-Tuesday-Was-Gone-ebook\/dp\/B004GUSB56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Journeying Mercies: Tuesday Was Gone,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Bob Neudorf<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Running-Fire-Missionary-Revolutionary-Sightline\/dp\/1609383281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Running to the Fire: An American Missionary Comes of Age in Revolutionary Ethiopia,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Tim Bascom<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seasons-Myself-Joanne-Burns-Williams\/dp\/149480672X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Seasons of Myself,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Joanne Burns Williams<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sent-Reflections-Mission-Boarding-Childhood\/dp\/0648975517\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sent: Reflections on Mission, Boarding School and Childhood,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Anstini, Dainton, Chenoweth<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Missionary-Myth-Vivian-Palmer-Harvey\/dp\/0741456303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Missionary Myth,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Vivian Palmer Harvey<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Things-Fell-Apart-Center-Held\/dp\/0578654563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Things Fell Apart, but the Center Held,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Dianne Darr Couts<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unrooted-Childhoods-Memoirs-Growing-Global\/dp\/1857883381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uprooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Faith Eidse<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3TNzaxK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guided by Heart,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Rachel Steffen<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/bgVdf7m\">Of Stillness and Storm,<\/a> <em>Mich\u00e8le Phoenix<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/So-Far-Free-mothers-anguish\/dp\/1706747462\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1IIS5UAIEMI1O&amp;keywords=rachel+steffen&amp;qid=1679500274&amp;sprefix=rachel+steffen%2Caps%2C149&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">So Far From Free: A son\u2019s peril. A mother\u2019s anguish,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Rachel Steffen\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dorm-Emma-Abrams\/dp\/1039132030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Dorm,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Emma Abrams<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mountain-Dreamer-Rachel-Steffen\/dp\/B08KBSDYFV\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1IIS5UAIEMI1O&amp;keywords=rachel+steffen&amp;qid=1679500547&amp;sprefix=rachel+steffen%2Caps%2C149&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Mountain Dreamer,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Rachel Steffen<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poisonwood-Bible-Novel-Barbara-Kingsolver-ebook\/dp\/B000QTE9WU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Poisonwood Bible,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Barbara Kingsolver<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shack-Wm-Paul-Young\/dp\/1455567612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Shack,<\/a>\u00a0<em>William P. Young<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abuse in Religious Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/fD4Y8m4\">Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren&#8217;t Being Fooled,<\/a> <em>Jennifer Freyd<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enlarging-Bostons-SPOTLIGHT-Institutional-Transformation\/dp\/1545473544\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enlarging Boston\u2019s Spotlight: A Call for Courage, Integrity and Institutional Transformation,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Dee Ann Miller<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Naming-Our-Abuse-Pathways-Survivors\/dp\/0825444004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Naming Our Abuse: God\u2019s Pathways to Healing for Male Sexual Abuse Survivors,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Andrew Schmutzer<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3vrCgxd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Religious Trauma Survival Guide: Education and Recovery Tools for Survivors and Professionals,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Anna Clark Miller<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/3OTQ5zj\">Tear Down This Wall of Silence: Dealing with Sexual Abuse in Our Churches (an introduction for those who will hear),<\/a> <em>Dale Ingraham and Rebecca Davis<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Long-Journey-Home-Understanding-Ministering\/dp\/1608993957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Andrew Schmutzer<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Too-Small-Ignore-Least-Matters\/dp\/1400073928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matter,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Wess Stafford<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/cWpMsN9\">When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion,<\/a> <em>Laura E. Anderson<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The resources we have listed are offered as suggestions for insights into the MK experience or for insights into abuse and its effects. Suggesting these links does not mean that MKSN endorses everything in them. This is an ever-evolving list and will be updated on a regular basis. If you have any resources you would like to suggest, please send those to us at mksafetynet@gmail.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information\/Research on MKs and TCKs Memoirs Fiction Abuse in Religious Settings The resources we have listed are offered as suggestions for insights into the MK experience or for insights into abuse and its effects. Suggesting these links does not mean that MKSN endorses everything in them. 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