Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis After Losing Faith in the Bible

Join our monthly Radix Live event, as Matthew Steem hosts a conversation with Liz Charlotte Grant and Michael Barram on her recent book.

Grant’s work invites us to ask searching questions: What does Bible study look like after inerrancy? Do you have to give up scripture when you no longer believe in its literal interpretation? Can you still call it sacred while renegotiating your relationship with the church?

In Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis After Losing Faith in the Bible, she wrestles with these questions in a lyrical and deeply personal commentary on Genesis—offering readers a fresh vision for encountering God in scripture, even as faith continues to shift and evolve.

Michael Barram, always warm and thoughtful, will bring his trademark curiosity, expertise in biblical studies, and engaging questions to the conversation. And, as always, there will be time for audience participation.

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.