Join the conversation! We're excited to welcome author Liz Charlotte Grant and returning welcome to Dr. Michael Barram. Watch this space in the coming week for more thoughts on this new book and Radix Live discussion.

"In this book, you too have permission to question the sacred without fearing . . . unbelief. Knock loudly. . . . Reject answers that do not admit complication. Seek the resonance at the base of the story. The seeking is the point. Because there, in your wandering, God is." - from Knock at the Sky

Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in The Revealer, Sojourners, Brevity, Christian Century, Christianity Today, Hippocampus, Religion News Service, US Catholic, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Her essays have twice won a Jacques Maritain Nonfiction Prize. She also writes The Empathy List, a popular newsletter that has been nominated for a Webby two years running and garnered an honorable mention from the Associated Church Press Awards in 2023. Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis after Losing Faith in the Bible is her first book.

Michael Barram, Ph.D., is Professor of Theology & Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California. His work explores missional hermeneutics and how Scripture shapes moral imagination and reasoning, especially around economic and social justice. He is author of Missional Economics (2018), Mission and Moral Reflection in Paul (2006), and, with John R. Franke, Liberating Scripture (2024). Barram co-edited Reparations and the Theological Disciplines (2023) and the Cascade series Studies in Missional Hermeneutics, Theology, and Praxis. He also teaches for New College Berkeley and First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley.