Genesis and the Hard Questions of Origins

Genesis is the book modern readers stumble over first. Six days of creation. A talking serpent. A man named Adam. A worldwide flood. For many, it is where faith begins to feel embarrassed in front of the science class. For others, it is where faith becomes weaponized — a club used in culture-war battles whose terms Genesis itself never set.

This plan refuses both reflexes. It reads Genesis as the rest of Scripture reads it: as the foundation of everything that follows, with Christ himself, Paul, and the prophets quoting it as the source of their anthropology, their ethics, and their hope. And it reads Genesis with the questions modern readers actually bring: How does this square with evolution? Is Adam a real person, and does it matter? What does "the image of God" actually mean when we are arguing about gender, race, abortion, and AI? Why does the Fall do more honest work explaining human behavior than any secular alternative?

What to Expect

Twenty-one days through the book itself, paired with Francis Schaeffer's careful work on Genesis and the modern mind, N.T. Wright's reading of Genesis through the lens of the whole biblical story, Augustine's centuries-old wrestling with the literal and figurative, and C.S. Lewis on myth, history, and what it means that God speaks through both. Every day grounds itself in the biblical text first, then lets these voices help us hear it again.

Who This Plan Is For

For believers who want to read Genesis without checking their brain at the door — and for skeptics willing to read it without checking their imagination at the door. The hard questions are the point.