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Shannon Harris
Shannon Harris is a singer, actor, composer and writer. She is the ex-wife of former American evangelical writer and author Joshua Harris. She performs under the stage name Shannon Bonne and is author of the book, The Woman They Wanted.

Biography
Shannon Harris (born Shannon Hendrickson, August 19, 1973) was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey and later moved to Frederick, Maryland where she grew up singing, performing, and playing the piano. Shannon attended the Academy of Fine Arts, a school existing as a part of Governor Thomas Johnson High School. She obtained a B.A in Communication from The University of New Hampshire and soon afterward was introduced to Covenant Life Church, a large non-denominational evangelical church and the founding church of Sovereign Grace Ministries, both of which were located in Gaithersburg, Md at that time. There she met Joshua Harris, the soon to be author of the bestselling Christian book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, who was being groomed to become the lead pastor Covenant Life Church. Shannon and Josh married in October of 1998, subsequently had three children, and Josh assumed leadership of the church for over ten years.

In 2015 the couple moved to Vancouver, British Columbia so Joshua could attend Regent College. In 2018 Shannon released a six song EP described as 70's infused soft-rock under the stage name Shannon Bonne. In 2019 the couple announced their marriage was ending.

On social media Shannon talks about her negative experiences in the church communicating that leaders used fear, shame, and bullying as means of control. She also uses the hashtag #exvangelical on numerous social media posts.

In 2020 Shannon announced she was writing a book with Minnesota based publisher, Broadleaf Books. The book, entitled The Woman They Wanted recounts the story of Shannon’s experience inside the church where she was required to live within a very narrow definition of womanhood—and her journey out of that world and into a more authentic version of herself. In a 2020 post on the social media platform Instagram Shannon states that after nearly twenty years with Covenant Life Church and Sovereign Grace Ministries she found herself exhausted and disassociated, and suffering from chronic anxiety, depression and PTSD. The Woman They Wanted is set to be released on August 29, 2023. Shannon resides in Vancouver, British Columbia with the youngest of her three children.