Books by Gregory Simpson
Books for wilderness, wonder, justice, and becoming
I write for people living with real questions: about scripture, faith, power, belonging, grief, change, and the stories that help us understand one another.
Here you will find published devotional books, a nonfiction work taking shape through research and shared stories, and glimpses of fiction still in development.
Published devotionals
Scripture in conversation with the world we inhabit
These books make room for honesty, difficult questions, grief, justice, imagination, and hope. Both are available as e-books and paperbacks.
Advent · 25 days · E-book and paperback
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.
The e-book includes the complete daily journey of scripture, reflection, and blessing. Free short companion videos are available through my YouTube channel.
Lent and Holy Week · Daily readings · E-book and paperback
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.
Churches and groups can also use it as a congregational devotional, small-group study, or pastoral companion. Bulk orders include supplemental preaching prompts, discussion questions, and adaptable liturgical resources.
Choose the format that fits
E-books are available through my Payhip bookshop. Paperbacks are available directly and through booksellers, including Barnes & Noble. Each book page contains the most current format and ordering information.
The nonfiction book taking shape
Faith in the Dismantling
A gentle guidebook for those who can’t go back to the way things were
Faith in the Dismantling is being written for people exploring deep spiritual questions, including those who may never attend Sunday worship or enter a church building.
It is not a roadmap back to church and it will not offer slick answers, pressure people to forgive before they are ready, or treat honest questions as problems to solve. It will explore what happens when inherited religious structures begin to crack: what we grieve, what we release, what remains sacred, and how spiritual life continues beyond institutional expectations.
What we release
Beliefs, systems, expectations, and religious patterns that no longer serve life.
What remains sacred
Practices, relationships, stories, places, and experiences that still carry meaning.
Where belonging grows
Community, ritual, justice, wonder, and spiritual life beyond familiar religious walls.
The book is taking shape through historical and theological research, pastoral experience, and stories shared by people living through deconstruction, spiritual displacement, and the search for belonging. Through the fall and winter I am listening; from January through March I will enter a focused period of research and writing.
If this territory is part of your story, I would be honoured to hear from you. I will ask for explicit permission before quoting or identifying anyone.
Fiction in development
Stories still becoming
These projects are at different stages of development. Each 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, this character-driven story follows a twenty-something man from the Prairies who takes 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. The sea herself is one of the characters: beautiful, restless, generous, and never entirely safe.
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