HI, I’M BECKY CASTLE MILLER.

Emotions are important to a healthy Christian life.

Jesus is our model for living in an emotionally vibrant way, yet many of us who want to follow him ended up learning in church to squash, distrust, and ignore our emotions. I’m learning new ways to understand and embrace our God-given emotions as disciples.

This Substack offers free weekly posts about growing in emotional health. I also share two additional monthly posts for paid subscribers, one with notes on academic research on emotions in the Bible and ancient world and another with personal reflections and updates about my life as a PhD student, mom, and woman growing in my own emotional health.

I did my master’s at Northern Seminary studying with Scot McKnight where I wrote my thesis on Jesus’ emotions and the history of anti-emotionalism in Christian discipleship. I’m currently working on a Ph.D. in New Testament at Wheaton College studying with Esau McCaulley. My dissertation is about emotions and discipleship in the Gospel of Luke.

My family and I lived in the Netherlands for eight years where I served at an international church. We returned to the US in 2020. My husband and I have five kids and an elderly gentleman cat.

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Improve your emotional health. Posts from a PhD student researching emotions in the Gospels. Loving God and neighbor with our whole mind, whole strength, whole heart, and whole emotion.

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Emotional health + discipleship + trauma-informed pastoral care. PhD student at Wheaton College, dissertation on emotions in Luke. MA from Northern Seminary, thesis on Jesus's emotions. Co-author of “Following King Jesus.”