I’m Sarah Griffith

Sarah’s Story

I’ve always been the kind of person who needed to know. Sometimes that meant asking one more question. Sometimes it meant questioning the answers everyone else seemed satisfied with. Usually, it meant both…

For years, I thought faith meant finding the right answers and holding onto them tightly. I loved Jesus, I loved Scripture, and I genuinely wanted to be faithful. So when trusted teachers told me, "This is simply what the Bible says," I rarely imagined there might be another faithful way to read the text.

At the same time, I spent much of my life longing to be delighted in. That longing made me a people pleaser for a long time. I wanted to get it right. I wanted people to approve of me. I wanted to make God happy, make other people happy, and somehow avoid disappointing anyone along the way.

Then I went to seminary.

Studying hermeneutics, church history, and biblical languages didn't weaken my faith—it deepened it. I discovered that many of the interpretations I'd inherited were exactly that: interpretations. Some were wise. Others reflected the cultural assumptions of their time more than the biblical text itself.

That realization didn't make me love Scripture less.

It made me love it enough to keep studying.

Along the way, I began to understand something else. God hadn't wasted the way He made me. That longing to be delighted in had taught me something about the people around me. Today, it has become empathy for people who are exhausted from trying to earn love, belonging, or God's approval. I know what it feels like to wonder if asking an honest question might cost you acceptance.

That empathy shapes everything I do.

Today, I'm a writer, theologian, worship leader, and doctoral student researching the ways interpretations can become so familiar that we mistake them for Scripture itself. My work invites people to reconsider what they've been taught—not because questioning is fashionable, but because faithful interpretation requires humility, and truth has nothing to fear from honest examination.

Life has shaped me as much as scholarship has.

I've walked through church hurt, breast cancer, rebuilding a marriage, raising two incredible kids, and learning that God is far more interested in forming me than in making my life comfortable. Those experiences haven't made me cynical. They've made me more compassionate, more curious, and more convinced that grace grows best where people feel safe enough to tell the truth.

If you've ever wondered whether you're allowed to ask hard questions, you're in good company.