Memoir · available now
Hymns for the Unfinished
A memoir of grief, grace, and becoming
Stories from a Texas ranch, a broken family, and the long road back to faith—an honest record of grace meeting us while we are still becoming.
A Christian faith podcast · hosted by James A. Luginbyhl
CREDO
What I believe—and why.
An ordinary Christian asking honest questions about faith—and figuring out what he believes and why.
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Latest episode
CREDO #10 · September 24, 2026Season two
The Men We Pretend to Be
Why so many men perform strength—and how grace begins when the real man finally allows himself to be seen.
A conversation about performance, vulnerability, and the grace of being known.
What is CREDO?
Credo means “I believe.”Faith asks more of us than easy answers.
CREDO is a place for an ordinary Christian to ask honest questions about faith—and figure out what he believes and why. Each episode starts with a question about God, Scripture, prayer, grace, suffering, or the life we are trying to live.
There is no performance of certainty here. Just honest questions, the Christian story, and a hope that Christ is faithful in the places we have not figured out.
“An ordinary Christian asking honest questions about faith—and figuring out what he believes and why.”
CREDO #9September 15, 2026
Bonus episodeSeptember 14, 2026
CREDO #8September 10, 2026
CREDO #7September 9, 2026
Why Suffering?
Why does a good God allow suffering? James considers the limits of tidy answers, the witness of Job, and the God who enters suffering rather than explaining it from a distance.
Bonus episode
Behind the Psalms
David Shepson joins James to explore the lived experiences behind Why the Psalms—from Psalm 88 and the Shepherd who carries us to prayers that sound more like a grunt.
CREDO #8
Why the Psalms?
Why return to the Psalms? James explores lament, anger, praise, silence, and the prayers that teach the heart what it has forgotten how to feel.
CREDO #7
Why Grace?
Why grace rather than achievement? James examines transactional faith, self-sufficiency, shame, and the gift of God that cannot be earned or managed.
Meet James
An ordinary Christian
with questions of his own.
I’m a Texas writer and podcast host, not a theologian or an expert. CREDO is where I work through the questions I cannot answer with a slogan—and try to listen for the truth Christ has been patiently teaching me.
I write about faith, grief, fatherhood, memory, and grace from the places where life has left the story unfinished.
More about JamesBooks
Stories still
becoming.
Two books about memory, inheritance, grief, and the grace that keeps meeting us along the way.
Novel in progress · preorder coming soon
Hig
A novel of the Texas Panhandle
Inspired by the life of James’s grandfather, a boy shaped by early loss, a scattered family, and the hard demands of ranch life learns that being needed is not the same as being loved.
A story of grief, inheritance, fatherhood, and faith.
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Keep asking the
questions.
Find CREDO at the podcast home James made for it.
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