You’ve found author, ghostwriter and narrator, Hilarey Johnson. Here, you’ll also find redemptive fiction and occasionally provocative non-fiction. But you’ll always be encouraged to press deeper into your faith.

This is not for the reader who’s looking for tweet-able faith-spiced quotes. It’s for the one who feels reluctant to go to church, but still attempts to nurture a faith community. It’s for the one who has finished passively accepting what they’ve heard preached—but instead of giving up—is still seeking God.

Because that’s what I’m doing, and this tiny corner of the interweb (Intimacy with God for the Over-Churched) is me sharing the process with my friends.

“Each time an unexpected discovery is made in the world of knowledge, it shakes the religious establishment of the day. Now, we are often taught that it is unfaithful to question traditional religious beliefs, but I believe that we must question them continually—not God, not Christ, who are at the center of our lives as believers and creators—but what human beings say about God and about Christ; otherwise, like those of the church establishment of Galileo’s day, we truly become God’s frozen people. Galileo’s discoveries did nothing whatsoever to change the nature of God; they threatened only man’s rigid ideas of the nature of God. We must constantly be open to new revelation, which is another way of hearing God, with loving obedience.” Madeline L’Engle, Walking on Water

Bio

Hilarey Johnson grew up hearing that she would be an excellent student if she could get her head out of the clouds. Her daydreaming still makes it possible to get lost driving anywhere. She loves characters with a hidden or unknown worth who rise to claim their identity. As a storyteller, Hilarey seeks authenticity even at the risk of absurdity, pain, or irreverence. She lives in Idaho with her husband, but someday Hilarey hopes to time travel.

Hilarey is the author of the Breaking Bonds, and Dance of the Crane fiction series. She has written for Guideposts, Brio Magazine, Christian Living Magazine, the Idaho Network of Child Advocacy Centers, the Times-News in Twin Falls, the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza and others.

Awards

Top 10 Idaho Fiction, Idaho Author Awards 2015
First Place, General Fiction, Idaho Author Awards, 2015
Best Fiction eBook, Idaho Author Awards 2015
Christian Writers Guild Operation First Novel Semifinalist 2013
Top 10 Idaho Fiction, Idaho Author Awards 2015
Second Place, General Fiction, Idaho Author Awards, 2015
Third Place Best Fiction eBook, Idaho Author Awards 2015
Meridian Writes Finalist, 2017

Fiction Endorsements

“Hilarey Johnson doesn’t settle for easy stereotypes. Sovereign Ground is a tale of clashing cultures and competing fears. In the middle of the action are the voices of those lost in human trafficking. This tale and those voices should not be ignored.”
—Tosca Lee, New York Times bestselling author

Interviews

No Safe Place, on LisaMichelleHess.com

A few quick questions on The Irresponsible Reader