TCU Religious & Spiritual Life, Feed Your Spirit book group is a place where faculty, staff and students can rest their soul for an hour during the school week.

The book group provides a place to worship and ask questions, as somewhere to grow and fed their spirit.

“Students, faculty and staff come together and break barriers of staff, faculty and student,” said Allison Lanza, TCU’s associate chaplain and leader of the book club. “This group is a place where they can be fed in the spirit through community and through reading a book.”

This semester, the book group is reading “Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words” by Brian D. McLaren.

The first meeting of the semester was March 3 in Jarvis Hall conference room.The book is free for those who sign-up for the group. The group reads chapters and meets every Tuesday at 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Along with the book discussions to feed the group’s spirit, they also get fed a free, home-cooked meal.

“When you sit around a table and eat with people who are different than you, you are no longer different,” Lanza said. “You become a community and friends. I think there is some power in that.”

“Feed Your Spirit” launched fall 2013. The book group is held during Advent and Lent. Since it started, the group has read four books.

‘Naked Spirituality’ goes through 12 different words about faith. Each word has a deeper meaning to it.

“These simple words help strip down all the extra stuff from our busy lives,” Lanza said.

The book group brings spiritual growth and new enlightenment, said Kayli Barnett, Robert Carr Chapel & events coordinator.

“This group brings a bunch of people from all over campus together [who] have spiritual growth through the conversations,” Barnett said.

Brenda Mapel, senior religion major, joined the book group last semester.

“The book this semester is speaking to me at a point in my life about spirituality, Mapel said.

Mapel is interested in spiritual discipline and practices.