A book club for women navigating complex faith
faith · friction · belonging
Some questions need to be lived before they are answered.
If you’ve sat in a room and sensed there was more depth, more honesty, more of the divine available than the conversation could hold, this is for you. If you’re reaching toward something and you want company for the reach, this is for you.
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Hallway Conversations is a book club for women navigating complex faith. Rather than provide answers, we share carefully chosen books, honest conversation, and a community of women committed to learning together rather than figuring it out alone.
Our community is looking for a way forward with more support, clarity, and purpose — a book club where the reading we do, and the conversations we have, help us become more grounded, more capable, and less alone in our individual faith journeys.
“You can’t make organizations safe for people. You have to make people safe for organizations.”— Kathleen Flake
The Closed Beta — September 2026
Before Hallway Conversations opens the doors, we are inviting a small, curated group of women to be our founding community. The beta book club runs September 2026 through April 2027 — eight months of noticing, wondering, discovering, and transforming.
We will work through a curated curriculum of books, supplemented by science-based resources, that provide intellectual grounding for our dialogue. Unlike lectures, these book clubs are facilitated and structured specifically so that the text leads and the discussion follows.
Our purpose in this beta is to learn from you. Beta members are not just participants — they are the founding community. Your voice, your questions, and your experience shape everything that comes after.
What we read
We don’t pick popular self-help. We pick books that do real work — books that create language for the things you’ve been quietly carrying.
Memoir and spiritual autobiography from writers who say out loud what most people only think. Henri Nouwen. Sue Monk Kidd. Kate Bowler. Books that recognize you.
Scholars and theologians who don’t flinch. Peter Enns on doubt. The Givens on transformation. Writers who have done the intellectual work so you don’t have to start from scratch.
The interior life, the mystical tradition, the theology of hope. Books about what is actually available to someone who keeps showing up — spiritually, personally, communally.
What organized community delivers that solo practice cannot — trust, resilience, social capital, shared narrative. The empirical case for why this conversation matters.
The spark
Fourteen women. One generation. A church in the middle of enormous change. Their stories are the foundation of everything Hallway Conversations is built on — and this book is also the first text our beta community will read together.
Learn more about the book ↗We are not looking for women who have it figured out. We are looking for women who want to co-create what this conversation can become.
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