Hi, I’m Emily Stimpson Chapman. As a wife, mother, and Catholic writer, I’ve spent the past two decades working to help people love Christ more deeply and understand the Church's teachings more fully. My goal is always to write about the Faith with fidelity and clarity, but also with gentleness and compassion, sacrificing neither orthodoxy nor charity. I believe truth abides at the very heart of the Church, and my prayer is that through books, essays, studies, and more I can help you abide there, too.
Emily Stimpson Chapman
Church teaching for the head and the heart
Meet Emily
Emily Stimpson Chapman is a best-selling Catholic author of over a dozen books, including The Story of All Stories: A Story Bible for Young Catholics (Word on Fire Votive, 2025); Letters to Myself from the End of the World (Emmaus Road, 2021), The Catholic Table: Finding Joy Where Food & Faith Meet (Emmaus Road, 2016), and These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Theology of the Body (Emmaus Road, 2014).
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In addition to The Story of All Stories, Emily’s newest books include Around the Catholic Table, which is both a cookbook for everyday dinners and a handbook for easy hospitality (Emmaus Road, 2025) and Sacred Wine: The Holy History and Heritage of Catholic Vintners (Marian Press, 2005). In recent years, she also has written studies for the women’s ministry Endow, edited the Formed in Christ high school textbook series (published by Tan Books), and published three children’s books with Scott Hahn. A fourth children’s book with Scott Hahn (this one about Saint Joseph) will be forthcoming in 2026.
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As a journalist and essayist, she writes regularly on “all things Catholic”—from politics and catechesis to higher education and the media, with a special focus on the Church’s teachings on marriage, sexuality, and femininity. Over the years her writing has appeared in Our Sunday Visitor, First Things, Touchstone, Franciscan Way, the National Catholic Register, Faith and Family, Lay Witness, Catholic Digest, and elsewhere. It has been honored by both the Catholic Press Association and the Associated Church Press, and was included in Loyola’s Best Catholic Writing series.
Emily was born and raised in Rock Island, IL She did her undergraduate studies at Miami University of Ohio (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laud), where she studied political science, history, and English literature. She then went on to do graduate studies in political theory at John Hopkins University and theology at Franciscan University.These days, you can mostly find Emily on Instagram and on Substack, where she both writes the popular weekly newsletter “Through A Glass Darkly,” and co-hosts the podcast Visitation Sessions. You also can find her in a rambling old house in Steubenville, Ohio, where she and her husband Chris are raising their three young children, ages 7, 5, and 4.
Latest Projects
Here are some of the latest & upcoming things I've been working on
