Substacks recommended by Liz Charlotte Grant

Recommended by Liz Charlotte Grant

Coming Down to Earth with Barbara Brown Taylor

There is a portal right here on earth that opens every single day with a little breeze of solace coming through, a little slant of light shining on some beauty you might otherwise have missed. That’s where I want to meet you in this column.

Barbara is one my favorite spiritual writers, period.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

How to Be on the Internet

By Alexis De Weese

I am a marketer in a publishing industry that demands writers and public thinkers have a "platform" and I feel conflicted about it! I write essays about author hospitality and algorithm ethics to help us all maintain our souls in the tensions of creating.

Follow this thoughtful marketing expert and overall stellar human.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

The Scoop

By Sarah K. Butterfield

I write about spiritual practices and how to be intentional with our time so that busy women can grow deeper in faith and closer to God.

Still Life

By Michael Wright

A weekly letter for the creative spirit—every Monday since 2018.

Still Life inspires me.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Orthodoxy of Me

By Matthew Paul Turner

I'm Matthew Paul Turner and this is Orthodoxy of Me. I'm a gay dad of 3 kids who writes children's books about God. Sign up to get stories, advice, and inspirations about my life, my creativity, my parenting, and my coming out.

Yes, you can be gay and Christian.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

My Blue Peninsula

By Cait West

Writing about Life after Christian Patriarchy

Down with the Patriarchy!

- Liz Charlotte Grant

writing wholefarted

By Marla Taviano

A short original poem every Thursday. Paid subscribers get juicy, petty long form posts every Tuesday and Friday.

Feel all your feelings with Marla's help.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Fleeing Tarshish

By Ryan Ramsey

Vocational Integrity. Religious Abuse Recovery. Navigating Grief.

Spiritual Abuse Recovery

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Bitter Scroll

By Sara

Decoding the culture swaying American Christian identity.

Left Christian politics from a memoirist.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Wild + Waste

By Sarah Southern

A bi-weekly (sometimes weekly) newsletter exploring the practice of wonder and our connectivity to place, people, and the divine.

A safe space for religious wanderers.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

The Rewilded Life

By Shannon K. Evans

Finding our way back to presence, freedom, and mystery.

Shannon is kind, devout, and sassy—my favorite kind of spiritual writer.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Black Eyed Stories

By Marcie Alvis-Walker

If you remember where you were when you first heard "Rapper's Delight", subscribe and we can be play cousins.

To see Christianity through Different Eyes.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

Creative Juice

- Liz Charlotte Grant

S A Y A B L E

By Lore Ferguson Wilbert

For the believers, the doubters, the halfway in or outers. Saying the quiet part out loud.

Kind, moderate, personal storytelling.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Life is a Sacred Text

By Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Space to say true things, with ancient stories serving as mirrors and lights. Now living at LifeIsASacredText.com 🌱

I have so much to learn from this progressive rabbi.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Footnotes by Jemar Tisby

Offering historically informed perspectives on race, faith, and social issues to help you become a lifelong advocate for racial justice

This is liberation from white Christian nationalism.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Embodied

By K.J. Ramsey

letters for living at the intersection of sorrow + joy.

K.J. offers digital therapy.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Good for You News

By Erin S. Lane

celebrating the less shiny bits of a life well-lived

A hug in an email.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Notes of a Make-Believe Farmer

By Jeff Chu 朱天慧

Jesus, compost, tables and chairs

Theology in the dirt.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Grace for fuck-ups. Prayer for the impious. A space for spiritual misfits.

Sermons I enjoy reading each Sunday.

- Liz Charlotte Grant

Sarah Bessey's Field Notes

The popular newsletter from writer Sarah Bessey with exclusive essays, the books worth reading, good things, special devotional series, theology deep dives, community conversations, and so much more.

Progressive Bible reading for newbies.

- Liz Charlotte Grant