About

Samantha Stephenson is a Catholic author and bioethicist whose work explores both the spiritual and ethical questions shaping our rapidly changing world—whether in the hidden rhythms of home or at the frontiers of science. She writes the Choosing Human Substack newsletter and hosts the podcast Brave New Us.

Samantha is the author of several books helping families navigate the spiritual and ethics questions of the modern age:

• 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 prayerful guide to seasonal abundance and sustainable family life

Samantha holds master's degrees in theology and bioethics, and is a former Paul Ramsey Fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Culture (2023-2025) and course instructor for Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute.

Samantha’s writing has been featured at 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.

She homeschools her four children and tends a sprawling garden in Idaho’s Snake River Valley.