Resources
What I'm Reading,
Recommending & Thinking With
The inner work requires the right tools.
Books, frameworks, and reads that have shaped how I write and think.
Faith & Emotional Healing
These books sit at the intersection of theology and the inner life. Not devotionals. Not self-help. The kind that cost you something to read.
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
The book that made me understand why you can believe Romans 8:28 and still fall apart. Trauma lives in the body, not just the mind. Every pastor should read this.
The Wounded Heart
Dan B. Allender
A clinical Christian psychologist working through the theology of abuse and recovery. It doesn't sanitise the wound. It names it honestly and brings Christ into the room.
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Peter Scazzero
The book that named the thing I kept seeing in the church: you can be spiritually active and emotionally stunted at the same time. Scazzero builds the bridge most pastors never cross.
Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?
Timothy Keller
Short but surgical. Keller refuses to make forgiveness cheap. This is the book I recommend to anyone who has been told to forgive before they have been allowed to grieve.
Defending the Faith
For the believer who needs more than a feeling. These books arm you with reasons.
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
Start here. Always. The moral argument for God's existence, written by a man who did not want to believe and couldn't argue his way out of it. Still the most accessible defence of the faith ever written.
The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel
A legal journalist investigates the resurrection using the same standards of evidence he applied to criminal cases. The format makes the historical evidence for Christ accessible without dumbing it down.
God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens
I recommend this not because I agree with it — but because you should know what the strongest version of the opposition says. Read it. Then read a response. Faith that cannot survive engagement with its critics is not faith. It is shelter.
Start Here on the Blog
If you're new, these are the posts that best represent what Find Your Ink is.
Why Smart Christians Struggle to Feel Their Feelings
Faith & Emotional Intelligence · 7 min read
The Violence of Unforgiveness
Trauma & Healing · 8 min read
Rewiring: The Renewing of Your Mind
Neuroscience & Scripture · 9 min read
The Sabbath Your Ancestors Never Took
Generational Patterns · 8 min read
Decolonizing Your Faith
Cultural Commentary · 10 min read