Why I Started This Dang Thing (And Why I Almost Didn’t)

I didn’t set out to teach the Bible.
Let’s just start there.

Matter of fact, I avoided it for a long time, and would just clarify or teach a handful of people who had access to me, or crossed my path at the right time. I wanted nothing to do with teaching biblical text—because the moment you start mentioning “Bible” anything, people start assuming you’re religious, or about to preach at them, or you're an atheist going to rip it to shreds. I was none of those.

But no matter how much I tried to stay out the way, the questions kept coming, even in places where I'd be minding my business and that wasn't the topic. Every time I heard a lie or blatantly wrong info I would cringe, but depending on a person’s dedication I would just stay silent... unless they asked, because they truthfully wanted to know.

Anyone who truthfully wanted to know, I couldn't necessarily ignore. Even when most of the responses to my lessons were positive… I still wasn’t trying to go public.

Folks who know self, know self.
Folks who know source, know source.

I review the Bible once a year to simply refresh myself and keep my mind sharp. The Bible can actually provide extremely beneficial text, but though I walked away from religions, I never strayed away from the text. I actually wanted to know what more text said.

Then I developed a more clear view of some of the nonsense around certain text—the way people twist it, weaponize it, or water it down until it’s just motivational fluff. I knew there was more than what I had learned growing up, and the more I educated myself on the subject, the more I found.

Not always the answers I expected, but enough truth to realize: I wasn’t crazy. I wasn’t rebellious. I was just hungry for clarity.

So I built Lit Bible Academy.

Because in the limited realm of this topic... I damn sure know a lot more than what has been taught; and I know enough to clarify a lot of misinformation, and help bring people’s personal journeys back within instead of always without.

Still, that was not enough to get me to start a course, but I started because I knew what it felt like to not have questions answered.

Sometimes folks would ask questions, and I would have to take them way back to the beginning... and they would have to just take my word for it.

I didn't want people to take my word for it, I wanted people to know for themselves & make their own decisions.

I knew there were others like me: spiritual, curious, not necessarily religious, but still drawn to completing biblical text at least once for reasons they couldn’t always explain. People who wanted to know what it really said—not just what they were told to believe about it.

And why did I almost not do it?

There will always be people who get mad when you don't stay in line with their beliefs, but like Dr. Dre said,
“I ain’t leavin’. I like breathin’.”

I knew there would be people triggered by certain truths—especially when they challenge long-held beliefs. But the goal was never to offend anyone. I’m not here to bother people or start fights.

Truthfully, I would’ve rather left it all alone.
It’s easier to stay quiet.
But easier ain’t always right.

Still, I got tired—tired of watching misinformation get passed off as fact… tired of people being manipulated with half-truths… tired of seeing folks stuck on the same questions with no real answers in sight.

So even though I’ve always been more comfortable as the observer—watching from the background—I decided to come out of hiding just a bit.

To answer the questions people keep getting stuck on.

Not to prove anything, but to help us finally move past the basics… and reach the next level. The questions that come after the confusion is cleared. The ones that actually matter.

They say, “a wise man once said nothing at all”—and that’s cool… once.
But decades of silence got us out here cooked.

Maybe it’s time the ones who know a lil something start doing a little more teaching.
Not the fake fluff. Just the real.

And though I’m not religious, I respect everyone's beliefs. I want religious folks and non-religious folks to be able to be unified peacefully; and simply know what the text says if it ever comes up.

I know there are people out there who genuinely want to understand what the Bible says—but they’ve had a hard time doing it alone.

They’re not trying to sit in a church pew every Sunday, and Bible study groups still ain’t quite hit the nail where it needed to go.

So they left… or they stayed in church but went quiet.

And even though I’d rather not be the one to say anything, I kept thinking about the people who tried and got nowhere, who asked the right questions but never liked the answers they were handed.

So I felt like I had to.
Plus the few people who know, kept asking me to.

So here it is.
Here I am.
And here...is the start of Lit Bible Academy.