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Spirit-led voices, rooted in God’s Word.
Meet Our Writers
Faithful Writers is home to believers who write from real experience, real faith, and real encounters with God. Each writer brings their own voice, story, and perspective, and I honor that by keeping their words authentic to who they are. Below, you’ll find the writers who make this space what it is.


Jane Isley - Founder & Editor
I am the creator of Faithful Writers, and I’ll explain in a minute or two how that happened. But if I jumped straight into that, I’d miss a lot of important parts of my journey that got me here.


Maia Vashti - Senior Editor
My biological CPU breaks down, glitches, and crashes regularly, making my life anything but average, and every bit of it has been a testimony to God. I am a Christian student at SNHU majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Professional Writing, and there is a lot more to my story.


Nora Gwen - Editor
Nora Gwen was born and raised as a strong believer who later went astray as a prodigal, struggling in sin and suffering its consequences, and what brought her back is a story worth reading.


Debra Hodges - Editor
Jesus saved my life and that is not a figure of speech, it is the reason I write about apologetics and the reason I cannot stop. There is a story behind those four words that changes everything.


Sienna Krieg
I am a 19 year old Christian student at DePauw University who used to write about New Age spirituality until a breaking point brought me face to face with Jesus and nothing has been the same since. He took away the depression, gave me a purpose, and now I write to show others that His reckless love is real.


Favour
I am Favour, faith filled and always writing about real things like God, growth, and grace, because faith is not just a Sunday thing, it is life, laughter, and the little moments that remind us we are still held. If my words make you pause, smile, or whisper "same" then I have done my job.


I.M. Koen
Issachar Koen is a Christian Zionist, Senior National Representative with Bridges for Peace, and a man who leads tours throughout Israel, teaches Torah online, and believes the church should prepare to endure rather than escape. That last part alone is worth clicking to read more about.


Nathan Cole
Nathan Cole writes for the quiet pursuit of Jesus and for the people who want to go deeper but feel like they do not have the time or the energy. He built something specifically for them and it started with a simple question.


Brad Banardict
Brad Banardict was once an apatheist who came to faith later in life and now applies the same clarity, precision, and critical thinking he used in risk based engineering to the study of Scripture. His greatest takeaway after putting God to that kind of scrutiny is not what most people would expect.


Tessa Lind
Tessa Lind spent nearly three decades stiff arming God before He opened her eyes, and what He called her to do next was the last thing she expected, share the unimaginable trials openly and honestly through writing. There is a lot of story between then and now.


Stephanie M
Stephanie M. is a Christian writer and mother who believes faith was never meant to be blind but to be lived, examined, and rooted deeply in Scripture, and the questions she is willing to ask out loud are the ones most people are afraid to raise. You will want to read what she does with them.


Sierra Loew
Sierra is a recent Graphic Design and Interactive Media graduate from the University of Wisconsin Stout who came to Christ during her time there and has not looked back since. She brings everything creative she has, writing, photography, and design, into work that she hopes draws people closer to God and her story of how that started is worth reading.


Mikiyas Astatke
Mikiyas Astatke is a software developer who spends his days thinking in code and his free time thinking in theology and philosophy, and the combination of those two worlds produces a perspective on faith that is anything but ordinary. What he does with that intersection is worth clicking to find out.


Randy DeVaul, MA
Randy DeVaul is a pastor, author of eleven books, retired 40 year safety professional, EMT instructor, and Billy Graham Rapid Response Chaplain who has ministered to first responders in communities facing crisis, and every one of those roles shows up in how he teaches Scripture. Click his name and you will understand immediately why his perspective is different.


Joel Sarfraz
Joel Sarfraz writes about faith, culture, nationalism, and the tension between modern Christianity and its historical roots, and he is not interested in easy answers or comfortable conclusions. If you have ever felt like the church has drifted from something essential, his writing will put words to exactly what you have been sensing.


Gail Thomson
She is a biologist and science communicator living in Namibia, Africa who follows Jesus Christ and writes about the intersection of faith and science from a place most Western Christians will never see firsthand. The perspective she brings to Scripture from that corner of the world is one you will not find anywhere else on this site.


Dr. Anudeep Manne
Dr. Anudeep Manne is a licensed pharmacist and published author who began his career as a Junior Research Analyst with Pfizer before becoming an Assistant Professor, and through all of it faith has been the thread connecting everything he does. The combination of scientific precision, academic depth, and genuine devotion to Scripture makes his writing worth your time.


Sabina Kumi
Sabina is a chemistry graduate student at the University of Iowa who writes not from a place of having it figured out but from the honest middle of still working it out, and that gap between belief and daily living is exactly where her best writing lives. If you are in that same place she is writing directly to you.


David Jun
David is a pastor serving college students at Purdue University who came into college chasing pleasure and purpose on his own terms until a community marked by uncommon love and conviction persuaded him the gospel was true and everything changed direction from there. He also has thoughts on the theological significance of fast food chains and honestly that alone is worth the click.


AppaPrayer
AppaPrayer is a developer, father of two, and writer based in South Korea. Raised in faith, he began putting his prayers for his children into words — not as sermons, but as a father's quiet hopes for them. He shares them here in hopes they'll bring the same comfort to other parents that they've brought him.


Rina Schultz
She won her first writing contest at eight years old, translated Christian literature into Afrikaans, and published two books, but it was a dream where God kept her from joining her mother and cousin who both passed away soon after that finally made her take writing seriously. That dream is where her story really begins and it is one you will not forget.
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