Minister · Writer · Speaker · Creator
Faith, stories, and the work of becoming more fully human
I’m Greg Simpson—a minister, writer, speaker, and creator exploring scripture, spiritual change, justice, and the stories that help us understand one another.
My work is rooted in curiosity: about the ancient worlds behind our sacred texts, the beliefs we inherit, the communities we build, and what faith can become when old certainties begin to loosen.
A question for this season
Where does spirituality live when church is no longer home?
Many people are dismantling inherited beliefs, reconsidering their relationship with the church, or discovering that their spiritual lives no longer fit within familiar institutions. Some are grieving communities they have lost. Others are finding meaning, ritual, belonging, and sacred connection in unexpected places.
Through the fall and winter, I am gathering stories from people navigating this territory.
What have you released? What have you carried with you? Where have you found belonging? What practices, relationships, places, or experiences have become sacred? What do you wish churches understood about people who continue to explore spiritual questions from beyond their walls?
These conversations will help inform the research and writing I will undertake from January through March for my upcoming book, Faith in the Dismantling. I will ask for explicit permission before quoting or identifying anyone.
Ministry, curiosity, and creative work
I serve as minister at St. Andrew’s United Church in Chatham, Ontario. I preach, teach, provide pastoral care, speak in public settings, create digital content, and help communities engage difficult questions with honesty and compassion.
Before entering ministry, I spent about fourteen years in software development. Theatre, music, storytelling, technology, and the practical work of making things continue to shape how I communicate and create.
I am interested in faith that helps us tell the truth, share bread, protect vulnerable people, and build communities where people can belong.
Books for wilderness, wonder, and justice
My devotional books bring scripture into conversation with contemporary questions about power, belonging, grief, change, and hope. Both are available as e-books and paperbacks.
No Room at the Inn
An Advent Call to Justice
The Christmas story begins amid occupation, economic vulnerability, displacement, and a family searching for shelter.
No Room at the Inn is a 25-day Advent journey for readers ready to move beyond a sentimental pageant and encounter the social, political, and spiritual urgency within the nativity story. It makes room for grief, exhaustion, anger, hope, and the biblical call to build a more just world.
Wilderness & Wonder
A Lenten Guide to Dismantling and Reimagining
Wilderness & Wonder is a daily Lenten companion for people whose faith is changing, as well as churches and ministers learning to walk with them.
Across Lent and Holy Week, it explores wilderness as a place of disruption, truth, grief, possibility, and transformation. Its daily rhythm moves through scripture, foundation, wilderness, and reimagining—making room to release beliefs that no longer serve life and envision a faith shaped by love, justice, creativity, and wonder.
Choose the space that fits you
I share different parts of my work on YouTube and Instagram. Each offers a different way to connect with the questions, stories, and projects taking shape here.
YouTube
YouTube is home to my longer-form work: sermons, devotional series, biblical and theological reflections, audio scripture readings, and conversations about faith, justice, grief, belonging, and spiritual change.
It is a place to slow down, spend time with an idea, and explore scripture beyond quick answers.
Instagram offers shorter reflections, glimpses of ministry and daily life, current writing projects, creative experiments, and ideas that are still taking shape.
It is the more immediate and informal side of my work—a place for brief questions, observations, and moments from behind the scenes.
Faith lived in community
Since 2018, I have served as minister at St. Andrew’s United Church in Chatham, Ontario.
St. Andrew’s is a vibrant, inclusive congregation seeking to live with compassion, courage, and curiosity. My work there includes worship, preaching, teaching, pastoral care, community partnerships, and helping the congregation respond faithfully to a changing church and world.
The life of a congregation involves celebration, conflict, grief, laughter, service, uncertainty, and the steady work of showing up for one another. That lived experience grounds my writing and public work.
The book taking shape
Faith in the Dismantling
A companion for people whose questions have outgrown the answers they were given
Faith in the Dismantling is an upcoming book for people exploring deep spiritual questions, including those who may never attend Sunday worship or enter a church building.
It will examine what happens when inherited religious structures begin to crack: what we grieve, what we discover, what remains sacred, and how spiritual life continues beyond institutional expectations.
The book is taking shape through historical and theological research, pastoral experience, and stories shared by people living through deconstruction, spiritual change, and the search for belonging. My focused research and writing period will run from January through March.
If this describes part of your own journey, I would be honoured to hear from you.
Stories taking shape
My fiction moves through very different worlds, though each story is interested in belonging, memory, human connection, and the truths people carry beneath the surface.
When She Said My Name
A slow-burning, age-difference sapphic romance about Julia and Sophia, two women who meet at very different points in their lives and begin building something neither expected.
Their story may become the beginning of a longer series following the life they create together.
Broken Crucible
A gritty mystery-thriller following an ’80s rock band through the American Midwest in the early 1990s.
Damaged loyalties, suspicious deaths, buried histories, and a growing conspiracy pull the band into a mystery that becomes more dangerous with every answer they uncover.
Tinker & Trinkets
Set in Digby, Nova Scotia, in 1995 and 1996, Tinker & Trinkets follows a twenty-something man from the Prairies who moves across the country to take over an antique and small-repair shop nestled in a cove off the Bay of Fundy.
He may be searching for something. He may be escaping something. In a community shaped by memory, tides, and the things people keep, those two possibilities begin to converge.
The sea herself is one of the characters: beautiful, restless, generous, and never entirely safe.
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Speaking, conversation, and collaboration
If you would like to invite me to speak, discuss a book or resource, request an interview, share part of your story, or explore a creative collaboration, I would be glad to hear from you.