Spirit & Scribe
Spirit & Scribe is an online workshop that explores the intersection of writing craft and spiritual formation. While there are many books and courses about spiritual practices, and about writing, this workshop meets on the bridge between the two — exploring how our spiritual lives shape our art, and how our writing forms us (and others) spiritually.
Each week participants will be led through corporate prayer, an interactive lesson, reflection exercises, and group discussion. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage in mid-week exercises designed to fuse their artistic practices with their spiritual callings. Our hope is that every person would leave with a clearer sense of how to journey with God as a writer.
Registration is open for our August 2025 cohort!
(Or sign up for the interest list to be notified about future cohorts.)
About the Workshop
Week 1: Purpose — Motivations in Writing
What motivates our writing? Should we create if our motives aren't 100% pure? Is that even possible? We get real about our motivations as writers and consider how God is inviting us to journey with Him.
Week 2: Process — Cultivating an Idea
What does it look like to shepherd an idea from concept to publication? In our second week, we explore what Scripture teaches us about how to cultivate an idea and how to know which ideas are worth pursuing.
Week 3: Prayer — Writing with the Spirit
How does prayer intersect with our writing lives? We will look at how God gives creative ideas through prayer, how prayer shapes those ideas, how art can be a form of prayer and an act of obedience to God.
Week 4: Parable — Forming the Imagination
In our last week, we turn from looking at our own spirituality to consider how our writing craft intersects with our readers' spiritual formation. Jesus gave the masterclass in this; what does it look like for us today?
Registration is open for our August 2025 cohort!
(Or sign up for the interest list to be notified about future cohorts.)
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About the Facilitators
Chanté Griffin is a journalist and essayist who writes about race, culture, faith, and Black hair. She is the author of Loving Your Black Neighbor As Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us, a 2025 NAACP Image Awards Nominee for “Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional.” Chanté has written for Christianity Today, Red Letter Christians, and is a contributing writer for Faithfully Magazine. She’s also worked as a contributing writer for The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Root. Her writing has received support from the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, the California Arts Council, and others. You can connect with her via her Substack.
Michael Stalcup is a Thai American poet living in Bangkok, Thailand with his wife and three young children. His poems have been published in over thirty magazines and anthologies, including Commonweal, First Things, Sojourners, and The Lent Project. Michael received his MA Theological Studies from Fuller Seminary, whose faculty awarded him the 2025 Frederick Buechner Award for Excellence in Writing. He co-leads the PAX Fellowship's Writing Cohort for BIPOC young adults, and works with United Adoration to empower artists in Thailand. You can find his poetry and teaching at michaelstalcup.com and subscribe to his newsletter on Substack here: