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 #16 · November 1, 2026CREDO #16
All Saints
What can Christians learn from the saints who came before us? James reflects on the lives of Moses the Black, Augustine, Monica, Benedict, Francis de Sales, and Maximilian Kolbe—and how their varied faithfulness points us toward Christ.
The Church is older than us. That is a gift.
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 #15October 29, 2026
CREDO #14October 21, 2026
CREDO #13October 12, 2026
CREDO #12October 4, 2026
Dependence
Some things cannot be fixed by trying harder. James reflects on the limits of self-reliance and why learning to depend on Christ is not failure, but part of the life of faith.
CREDO #14
What Is Christian Masculinity?
What is Christian masculinity? James considers an identity received rather than achieved, truth and repentance, strength without domination, and the courage to make room for tenderness, help, and grace.
CREDO #13
He Wept Anyways
When we pray for suffering to end and it doesn’t, what can faith say? James reflects on Jesus weeping at Lazarus’s tomb, bringing anger and grief to God without calling pain good, and the care that may come through people who listen and stay beside us.
CREDO #12
Sons of Thunder
James and John wanted places of honor beside Jesus before they understood the cost of his road. James considers their ambition, their imperfect faith, and the way Jesus turns greatness toward service—and asks what it means to trust Christ enough to take the next step without seeing the whole road.
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.
Historical novel · forthcoming
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.
Under contract with Elk Lake PublishingKeep listening
Keep asking the
questions.
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