Steve Babbitt

Steve Babbitt is a writer and public speaker who spends most of his time thinking about questions people usually avoid—especially when the answers are unclear, uncomfortable, or incomplete. His work explores suffering, meaning, responsibility, and hope without pretending that faith makes life painless or simple.

Although trained in theology and history, Steve does not approach suffering as an abstract problem to be solved. Much of what he writes grows out of lived experience. He and his wife, Tammie, are the parents of a child with cystic fibrosis, a life-shortening genetic disease. For fifteen years, they facilitated a support group for parents at their local children’s hospital, sitting week after week with families learning how to live with uncertainty, exhaustion, grief, and fierce love. Those years taught him that easy answers don’t help—and that some questions deserve patience rather than certainty.

Steve has spent more than thirty years speaking to diverse audiences—inside and outside religious settings—about how people actually carry pain, how wounds get passed on, and how healing begins when we stop pretending everything is fine. His writing avoids formulas and slogans in favor of clarity, moral seriousness, and a stubborn commitment to hope that can survive real loss.

In addition to his writing, Steve lectures internationally on history and culture and is the author of multiple bestselling books. He lives in San Diego with Tammie, where they tend a small garden, keep a few beehives, and continue the slow, unfinished work of learning how to live honestly in a fragile world.