Let's read. Together.
There's power in community and wisdom in gaining knowledge and understanding. Let's combine them and grow. Together.
What to Expect
Each month, you’ll be presented with book selections and topics that range from faith, trauma, and deconstruction to reconstruction, identity, and belonging.
Approaching the book of the month with curiosity, compassion, and kindness, we’ll read with the intent to learn from the books and from each other.
You can choose to read alone, join a virtual reading session, or both. At the end of each month, we’ll meet to discuss. And all along the way, you’ll meet others in our community as we read, learn, and grow together.
Both the book club and benefits will grow along with each of us, and will be shaped by your valuable feedback and input.
If you're looking for a community and safe space to read, learn, and grow together, join us!
How It Works
Join
Sign up for a monthly membership. Cancel any time.
Vote
Each month, you'll help us pick the next book selection from a list of carefully curated choices.
Read
Choose to read on your own, or join us for live read-along sessions held twice a month. Or do both!
Discuss
Join the discussion in our online chat thread any time or during our monthly calls.
What We're Reading Right Now
May–June 2026
Growing Up Saved
Kristen LaValley
(description from publisher)
What do you do if the faith that raised you seems to fail when you need it the most?
Kristen grew up a church kid through and through. She said “the sinner’s prayer” before she could write her name―and spent the next few decades trying to prove she meant it; in a body that couldn’t rest, with a mind she didn’t yet understand, under a God she was afraid to disappoint. She learned to perform the kind of faith that got praised: one that hid pain and swallowed questions.
But in the thick of depression, spiritual exhaustion, and a late ADHD diagnosis, she found herself wondering if the faith she’d built her life on could really hold her.
In Growing Up Saved, Kristen maps the slow undoing of a faith formed in certainty and what it took to find God in the middle of her unraveling.
In these pages, you’ll find authenticity, empathy, and compassionate theology as you explore:
- how to find your way through a faith that was formed in fear
- the intersection of trauma, mental health, neurodivergence, and spiritual identity
- the healing work of making peace with your body, your mind, and your story
- a path for those navigating life after disillusionment, burnout, religious trauma, or pain
This book isn’t a call to give up on faith. It’s an invitation to hold it differently. With tenderness, grit, and humor, Kristen offers a hard-won way through grief and grace to a messy, holy rebuilding.
Books We've Read Together
Each month, Book Club members are presented with a curated selection and vote for the book we read together. Here are the books we've read so far:
Jan–Feb 2026
Holy Hurt
Dr. Hillary McBride
Oct–Dec 2025
Your Pain Has A Name
Monica DiCristina
Aug–Sept 2025
Knowing and Being Known
Erin Moniz
June–July 2025
Make Sense of Your Story
Adam Young
Apr–May 2025
Becoming the Pastor's Wife
Beth Allison Barr
Feb–Mar 2025
I've Got Questions
Erin Hicks Moon
Dec 2024–Jan 2025
Hope for Cynics
Jamil Zaki
Oct-Nov 2024
Healing What's Within
Chuck DeGroat
Aug-Sept 2024
I Shouldn't Feel This Way
Dr. Alison Cook
July 2024
The Understory
Lore Wilbert
June 2024
How to Walk into a Room
Emily P. Freeman
May 2024
The Lord is My Courage
KJ Ramsey