Substacks recommended by Janell Downing

Recommended by Janell Downing

The Kitchen Shrink

By Tamar Adler

Culinary advice and hosting advice from best-selling author and James Beard Award winner, Tamar Adler

Nate's Notes

By Nathan Hoff

often unprocessed-occasionally edited.

Inkwell

From Dust, New Lore. A storytelling community seeking transcendence.

The In-Between

By Kelsi Klembara

I write about reformation doctrine and God's forgiveness and grace. This is a collection of my weekly or biweekly thoughts and favorite pieces of content.

Beyond the Pale

By John Blase

Meredith Lee and I were sitting on the back deck a few weeks ago, she was telling me a story and stopped to ask, What are you looking at?" I guess I'd left eye-contact or something. I answered, "Everything."

Experimental Theology with Richard Beck

Drawing Large and Startling Figures

The American Thread

By Danté Stewart

The American Thread explores the hidden stories, defining moments, and ordinary lives that shaped the fabric of the nation. Through essays, narratives, interviews, and reflections we unravel the beauty and complexity of the American experience.

The Spacious Way

By Colette Eaton

For honest seekers, craving a faith with room to breathe | Offering reflections on doubt, wonder, and walking with God in the second half of life.

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.

Chris Arnade Walks the World

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

Beloved & Becoming

By Tyler's Substack

Beloved & Becoming is a space about remembering who you truly are—deeply loved, radically free, and always unfolding.

Tyler is a fellow spiritual director, and one who, without fail, will always remind us of our belovedness in God. He writes with compassion, doesn't take himself too seriously, and isn't afraid to bring what was lost into the light.

- Janell Downing

The Examine

By Seth Haines

The Examine is a reader-supported exploration of curiosity. Here, I explore the world through fiction, non-fiction, and the occasional photograph.

The Low-Level Theologian w/ Dr. A.J. Swoboda

An honest, humble, Jesus-centered theological devotional delivered to your inbox every Thursday.

Poetic Outlaws

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

The Hyphen - by Redbud Writers Guild

By The Redbud Hyphen

Redbud Writers Guild is an international community of Christian women who envision a vibrant and diverse movement of women who create in community and who influence culture and faith.

Tethered Letters

By Chris Wheeler

Monthly letters on creative faith and faithful creativity.

The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Weber

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

Thirty-Something

By Grace Leuenberger

Essays and entries on faith, fun, and feelings in your thirties.

BITTER SCROLL

By Sara

Decoding the culture swaying American Christian identity.

Winn Collier

My attempt to share words that are more beauty and goodness, less "obfuscating nonsense" (nod to Stegner)

Journeying Alongside

By Christine Vaughan Davies

Looking for the sacred in our everyday lives. Sharing what it is like to journey alongside others as a hospital chaplain & spiritual director. Exploring practices and stories of suffering, hope and resilency to encounter the divine.

Slow Faith

By Drew Brown

Pursuing Jesus in a world of flash.

my candle burns

By Amy Bornman

essays on motherhood, life at home, writing, publishing, and more by poet amy bornman – plus small press process + zines by mail! Read my books: BROKEN WATERS, HOW TO SEW CLOTHES, + THERE IS A FUTURE.

To Care And Not To Care

Recommended by Janell Downing