About

Samantha Stephenson is a Catholic writer exploring what it means to remain fully human—whether at the kitchen table or in the lab.

Through her newsletter Choosing Human, her podcast Brave New Us, her books, and her YouTube channel, she writes about the connection between what we believe about the human person and how we actually live—from emerging technologies to the everyday work of feeding a family, raising children, and building a home—because a more human life is grown, not engineered.

Her work sits at the intersection of bioethics, theology, and ordinary life, asking a single question:
what kind of humans are we becoming—and how should we live?

She is the author of several books that explore this question from different angles:

• Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad, a theology of the body for mothers

• The Bellbind Letters, a creative take on C. S. Lewis’s spiritual classic

• Grow Where You’re Planted: Reclaiming Eden in Your Own Backyard, a guide to cultivating a more grounded, embodied life through home, garden, and season

Samantha holds master’s degrees in theology and bioethics. She is a former Paul Ramsey Fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Culture and has taught with the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute.

Her writing has appeared in Blessed Is She, CatholicMom, Crisis Magazine, Fairer Disputations, The Federalist, FemCatholic, Natural Womanhood, Notre Dame’s Grotto Network, Our Sunday Visitor, Public Discourse, and Word on Fire.

At home, she is a homeschooling mother of four, tending both children and a sprawling garden—learning (imperfectly) to live what she writes, and to build a life that is a little more grounded, embodied, and real.