Welcome to Stories I'd Tell You at Dinner

Launching in March: Christian women in Western Australia sharing honest stories to encourage you in deep connection 🔥

Hey friend,

Have you noticed that all the content for Christian women you read comes from the US? Or that most Christian content is a tick box list of ways to live the Christian life?

Welcome to STORIES I’D TELL YOU AT DINNER, a website and podcast for Christian women in Western Australia to share honest stories with other women. These are the stories we would tell you at dinner.

These are the stories we pass to you, along with the bread and the wine, not to make us look good, but to remind ourselves of His goodness. We are sharing our stories first to encourage you to be brave with your friends, your church, and your God.

I’d love honest stories in my inbox on Wednesdays 👇🏻

Launching in March 2025, STORIES I’D TELL YOU AT DINNER is not a sermon, advice, think pieces, or self-help, but sharing stories that are:

• Honest—we value vulnerability, not trauma porn. Healthy boundaries are important. We share honestly, not to shame or cancel others, but with grace for the people in our stories.

• Beautiful—God made everything, he is beautiful, and the source of all beauty (Psalm 96:6). Scripture tells us to think about things that are true, honourable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8)

• Hospitable—like a dinner with friends, sometimes the conversation is about faith and sometimes it’s about other things, but our friends who don’t believe yet are welcome to join us at the table.

• Encouraging—We want to encourage you to establish and persevere in hope, faith, and deep connections with the people in your real life. We love the messy, imperfect local church. We love messy, imperfect people. We are messy, imperfect women, and we need each other.

Give us your email to get a weekly dose of encouragement in your inbox on Wednesdays 👇🏻

What can you expect?

First: everything is free. From March—November, STORIES I’D TELL YOU AT DINNER will land in your inbox on Wednesday. One Wednesday you’ll get essays, photography, and poetry from our team of local Christian women. The other Wednesday, you’ll get the latest episode from our podcast, THE AFTER DINNER MINT (more on the podcast below).

The essays and poetry explore:

• Singleness and marriage

• Motherhood and fertility

• Grief and loss

• Caring responsibilities (i.e., for older adults, foster kids, people with disabilities, or a sick spouse)

• Female friendship, mentor relationships, and deep connection

• Establishing and maintaining community

• Everyday hospitality and food

• Disability

• Vocation and career

• Rest, service, ministry, and sustainable sacrifice.

• Living well with technology

How’d you know I’ve been thinking about this? I’m in! 👇🏻

My goodness, I’d love to hear from all these women! In fact I know at least one of them because WA Christian circles are two degrees of separation 👇🏻😆

Think of our podcast, THE AFTER DINNER MINT, as the conversation you have with your friends after you’ve had a drink, dessert, and paid for your dinner. Holding your after dinner mint, you spill out from the restaurant, which has finally closed for the night, but you stand on the sidewalk laughing with your friends, and sharing more honest stories than you did at the table.

One week we interview local Christian women about what they learned about God through suffering that they would not have learned otherwise (as well as all of their best book, podcast, and recipe recs). The other week, we have chatty conversations with our co-hosts, Britt, Rach, Maddy, and Bec, exploring what we are learning about faith, life, tech, and the right pair of jeans.

I do love podcasts. Encourage me while I fold laundry! 👇🏻

God willing, we are launching in March and we would love for you to join us, friend. If you got this far and like what we’re doing, could you do me a favour? Could you say a quick prayer for us and then pop the link in your group chat? 💬

Love,

Bec Fergie

Founder of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner