About Us

Unbecoming Christian began as a discourse between friends seeking to understand their experiences in and outside of Christianity through writing. As a heuristic exercise grounded in faith in human connection, creation, and the divine, it invites Christians, Non-Christians, and everyone in between to see Christianity as a collection of ancestral poetry and prose from which writers can learn.

Why Write in Community?

 A Writing Community offers what we crave most: affirmation, communal wisdom, anecdotal knowledge, and, importantly, a sense of belonging among peers navigating the writing process. 

To write in community is to find the courage to write through love.

Carlos Antonio Delgado is a writer, educator, and community organizer with an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He has published work in Twelve Stories, The Acentos Review, and Pittsburgh Noir, and has received several honors, including the 2008 Turow-Kinder Fiction Award. Delgado teaches writing at the University of Southern California and is the founder/ lead facilitator of “Unbecoming Christian”, dedicated to creating supportive spaces for writers exploring complex personal stories, and navigating life in the “wilderness”–outside Christianity.

The operations assistant with Unbecoming Christian, Sam, grew up with images of soucouyant. Women of flesh bodies turned to fire at night; drifting through space trying to find their next victims. Their mother would lay beside them in the dark, placing their head onto her lap as she whispered "sa yo se fanm ki pa gen pitye, pa gen okenn lide, pa gen okenn relanti, sa yo se fanm kache konsa byen yo ta ka menm pou mwen", slowly leaning in before tickling them to sleep. As the child of Haitian immigrants, Sam is a recent graduate of Bates College where they majored in Africana Studies. They currently reside in Dorchester, Boston as one of Grubstreets 2024 Emerging Writer Fellows.  When not writing you can find them camped out at Andala or rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

You can check out Sam's writing here.