Should We Really Be Talking About This?

Should We Really Be Talking About This? is a raw, honest, and deeply human exploration of the conversations many believers whisper about privately but rarely feel safe enough to say out loud.

Through fictionalized conversations rooted in very real tensions inside modern church culture, Andrew Maue tackles difficult topics surrounding ministry burnout, church finances, spiritual manipulation, leadership culture, divorce, theology, loneliness, performance-driven Christianity, abusive internship systems, and the growing disconnect many people feel between Jesus and the institutions built in His name.

These chapters are not written to tear down the Church, but to ask whether honesty might be the first step toward healing it.

Inside these pages are conversations happening:
• Around bonfires after church
• In parking lots after service
• On walking trails between wounded believers
• In empty sanctuaries after rehearsals
• In quiet text messages people are afraid to send

For readers who still love Jesus but struggle with church culture...
For those who feel unheard, exhausted, spiritually homeless, or afraid to ask hard questions...
For those trying to discern whether to stay, leave, heal, rebuild, or simply breathe again...

This book offers something rarely given in modern religious spaces:
permission to be honest.

Rather than offering easy answers, Should We Really Be Talking About This? invites readers into compassionate, challenging, and deeply necessary conversations about what the Church has become, what it was meant to be, and whether healing is still possible.

Because healthy families are capable of hard conversations.

The Church should be too.