Your Back Pocket Bible Scholar for Recovering Evangelicals
You left the church that taught you how to read the Bible.
You don't have to leave the Bible too.
I'm Kate Boyd. I have a master's in biblical studies from Perkins School of Theology, I read Hebrew and Greek, and I write books that help us revisit Scripture to find that there’s actually good news there — for us and everyone else.
So you can read Scripture without going back to the interpretations that hurt you.
Five weaponized passages, handle properly. Free, and it starts the day you sign up.
Ask what kind of thing you're holding.
The Bible isn't one book. It's a library, written across centuries in three languages by people who had genres and conventions and arguments with each other.
We have to learn to read it literarily, not literally.
Poetry doesn’t work like law. Apocalypse does not work like history. Reading literarily means asking what kind of thing you're holding before you ask what it means for Tuesday. Most of what got you hurt came from skipping that question.
My method for reading the Bible well includes taking apart and weaving back together 4 threads.
Literary — genre, structure, characters, and what the rest of Scripture is doing with this text
Language — a word or two in Hebrew or Greek, and what the grammar is actually doing
Lifetime — the historical and cultural world the text came out of
Lenses — what scholars from different places and backgrounds see in it, including where they disagree
Almost everything free on a hard passage skews evangelical or a little to the right of that, and the work that would change your reading sits in journal articles and academic commentaries that cost more than most people will pay to settle a question.
And that’s the part I’m here for. When a passage is contested and the stakes are personal, I help you see there’s more than one way to read it faithfully.
I’m Kate.
I couldn't open Revelation until I was almost thirty. Too scared of it. I had been handed a Bible and a set of rules for reading it, and the rules kept producing a God I didn't recognize and answers that hurt people I loved.
So I went and got trained. I got an MTS in biblical studies from Perkins School of Theology. While there, I wrote An Untidy Faith, and I have a book on King David coming from Brazos Press in [fall 2027].
What I found in the academy was not a demolition. It was a wider room.
Scholars have been sitting with these questions for decades, and most of that work never reaches the people who need it most, because it's locked in journals and written for other scholars.
My whole job is moving it across.
The academy runs roughly twenty years ahead of the average church resource. I have an academic library card.
Consider it yours.
This is for you If …
You still love Jesus and you can't unsee what you've seen
You want to take the Bible seriously, which is exactly why the flat literal reading stopped working
You want to know who the scholars are and what they actually argue, not just be told what to think
You've been burned by certainty and you're not looking for a new brand of it
This probably isn’t for you if …
You want someone to hand you the correct interpretation and a five-step application. I'll show you the disagreement and the evidence and let you sit with it. Some people find that freeing. Some people find it exhausting. Both are fair.
Revisit Bible passages that have been used against you
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Re-Verse: Five passages to revisit after evangelicalism
When you sign up for my newsletter The Wide Margin, you’ll get these five lessons, free, delivered by email. Each one takes a passage that got used as a weapon and runs it through my four threads.
1 Thessalonians 4 — the rapture, and why the people who wrote it weren't picturing what you were shown
Jeremiah 29:11 — the verse on the coffee mug, and who God was actually talking to
Proverbs 31 — a poem about a woman, not a job description for one
1 Timothy 2:9-10 — modesty, and what it cost you
1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10 — where the scholarship genuinely divides, and why the lexicons matter
