For years, this blog has been the place where I’ve thought out loud about Scripture, church life, theology, women, and all the questions that refuse to stay tidy. Some of you have been reading here for a long time, and I’m grateful for that.

But I want to let you know that I’ve moved my writing to Substack.

My new publication is called Reading Without Fear, and it’s the place where I’ll be putting my energy going forward.

If you want the newest work, the fuller versions of what I’m writing, and the easiest way to keep up with it, Substack is where to go.

Why the move?

Partly because I wanted a better home for the kind of writing I’m doing now.

I’m reworking older posts, revisiting old ideas, and turning them into fuller articles with more depth, more clarity, and hopefully better writing. Some of the things I wrote years ago still hold up. Some of them needed more context, more nuance, and more of the voice I’ve grown into. So a lot of what is going onto Substack is not just reposted content. It’s upgraded content.

What is Reading Without Fear?

Reading Without Fear is where I write about Scripture, women, power, church, and faithful interpretation.

I write for people who love the Bible and want to read it well. Especially women. Especially those who have been handed fearful, manipulative, or flattening interpretations and told that faithful reading should make them smaller, quieter, or easier to control.

I don’t think that is what Scripture is for.

I want to help people become Bible savvy. By that I mean more than knowing Bible facts or being able to win a Bible trivia contest. I mean the kind of scriptural understanding that forms good judgment, resists manipulation, and refuses fear-based interpretations. The kind of reading that asks what kind of text this is, where it sits in the story of Scripture, and how Christians read it in light of Jesus.

In other words: I want to help us read the Bible with wisdom, courage, and context.

And because I can’t seem to help myself, I will also be writing about women in ministry, patriarchy, mutuality, church systems, and the ways our theology lands on actual bodies and actual lives.

In short: if you have ever wanted help reading Scripture carefully without checking your brain at the door, or if you have ever been whacked with a Bible verse and suspected there might be more going on there, you will probably feel at home.

Come subscribe

If you’ve read here before, I’d love for you to come with me.

You can find me on Substack at Reading Without Fear, and if you subscribe, new posts will show up in your inbox instead of depending on the internet to decide whether you’ll ever see them.

So if that sounds like your kind of thing, come join me over there.

Subscribe to Reading Without Fear here:
https://readingwithoutfear.substack.com/