We're a community of twenty-somethings asking the oldest question alive.
Sword & Shield began as a handful of friends around a kitchen table, reading and arguing about what it means to be made human. A few years on, it's a roomful of us — and the question hasn't gotten smaller. It's gotten more worth asking.
We aren't a church and we aren't a podcast. We're a young adults study community — people in their late teens through early thirties, gathering each week to read, think, pray, and talk.
Our name comes from Acts 17:11 — the Bereans who “received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” We took that as a charter. Every study we run — from the image of God to suffering to vocation to doubt — is an invitation to open the Book together and look closely.
If you've ever felt that the big questions deserve better than slogans, you'll probably fit right in.
What we hold to
Come as you are
Doubt, questions, baggage, hope — all welcome. No clean answers required at the door.
Think it through
We take the questions of being human seriously enough to sit with them instead of rushing past.
Stay for the long burn
Formation is slow. We build rhythms of study and friendship that outlast a season.
Who's in the room
Study notes, every week.
Join the list and we'll send the week's passages, notes, and discussion questions before each Thursday gathering. No spam — just the study.