Lake Drive Books

12/05/2025

Author Katherine Spearing, with her new book A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: The Subtle, Insidious Nature of Spiritual Abuse and Life on the Other Side, empowers those of us who have suffered at the hands of controlling, patriarchal religious figures.

The Dismantling Doctrine podcast with host Clint Heacock
https://open.spotify.com/episode/09M4tSDGShpeQgrjRPKbFQ?si=5FqkXdp5TgaMi_rgcFewIQ

The Dismantling Doctrine Podcast · Episode

12/03/2025

From Amen? Questions for a God I Hope Exists, by Julia Rocchi

12/02/2025

Just like trees carry hidden root diseases, we carry the roots of our own stories—sometimes stretching back generations. Healing begins when we’re willing to dig deep.

Read our new Substack post on trauma, recovery, and the courage to look beneath the surface, from Caroline Beidler, Author.

Guest Post from Caroline Beidler

12/02/2025

12/02/2025

Here's one "good Christian girl" who is picking up pieces of life and faith and figuring out how to heal and move forward, with one of the only and now bestselling books of faith deconstruction poetry you'll find. You need this now!

Author Marla Taviano's plan was to move on from white evangelical Christianity to bigger, lovelier, more all-embracing thoughts. But she couldn’t do it. Why? Because she was still jaded—and knew there was work left to do.

For those of us who are picking up pieces of life and faith and figuring out how to heal and move on, jaded: a poetic reckoning with white evangelical christian indoctrination is a collection of poems–short, thoughtful, brave, and spicy–showing that we still have a whole lot to get off our chest...

11/24/2025

Transgender woman, author, and Love in the Face Founder Nia Chiaramonte from her book "I Hardly Knew Me."

11/20/2025

Check out my conversation with Karl J Forehand & Laura Forehand of the The Desert Sanctuary where we chat about my role as a religious satirist in exposing spiritual narcissists, as well as finding healthy places where we can explore our spirituality.
Karl Forehand
Lake Drive Books

11/19/2025

I devoured book Girls and Their Monsters (which also explores religious trauma). So when she agreed to endorse TTPC, I danced a happy jig!
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11/18/2025

In Tiger in a Lifeboat, Lauren Cibene takes us on a personal and courageous journey: when everything she once trusted and believed in fell apart, she booked a one-way ticket to India.

This beautifully written excerpt marks a reclamation of self-trust, faith, and hope in a world that often strips those things away.

Guest Post from Lauren Cibene

11/18/2025

From Intersexion: A Story of Faith, Identity, and Authenticity, by Cynthia V***a Davis