3 Books That Saved My Relationship with Scripture

Because quoting the Bible isn’t the same as knowing how to trust it.

You can only white-knuckle your faith for so long.

At some point, if the version of God you were handed no longer holds up to your lived experience, something has to give.

For me, that moment came when I realized I hadn’t actually been taught to read the Bible. I’d been taught to repeat it…filtered through someone else’s lens, framed by someone else’s agenda, backed by a particular theology that pretended to be the only faithful one.

I knew how to quote it. I knew how to defend it. But I didn’t know how to wrestle with it. And when you’re not allowed to wrestle, you never really learn how to trust.

So I started over. Slowly. Quietly. One book, one scholar, one honest conversation at a time.

In this week’s behind-the-scenes video, I’m walking through the resources that helped me rebuild my relationship with Scripture…not as a weapon, not as a rulebook, but as a sacred conversation. These are books, voices, tools, and questions that gave me permission to be curious again.

They helped me stop…