Mary R Snyder, Creator of Birdy Mae
Loves Jesus.
Has questions.
Says them out loud.
Faith, church, culture – and one question that keeps showing up at the kitchen table. Does this look like Jesus?
Truth with Grace • Inspiration over manipulation • Kitchen Table Theology • You are Not Crazy and you are not alone
So who is Birdy Mae?
Just without
the filter.
I created Birdy Mae when saying what I really thought out loud could have cost me my job. She gave me room to ask questions about faith, church culture, and the things we’d been taught not to question.
Now I don’t need the cover. But I’m keeping the name. Because somewhere along the way, Birdy Mae became a place for people who still love Jesus—and still have questions.
I didn’t create Birdy Mae to walk away from my faith. I created her to finally talk honestly about it.
THE BOOK IS TAKING SHAPE
A conversation for the woman in the back row.
You still love Jesus. But you are struggling to recognize some of what is being practiced in his name. You have questions about belonging, women, fear, power, cruelty, doubt, and the fruit all of this is producing.
This book won’t tell you what to think. It will remind you that you are allowed to think—and give you a simple measuring stick for the questions ahead: Does this look like Jesus?
- Stories from inside evangelical and Southern church culture
- Honest questions without shame or spiritual performance
- A way to separate Jesus from the systems built around him
THE BACK ROW
Come sit with us.
For the woman still in the pew wondering if she’s allowed to think what she’s thinking-and the woman who walked out the door but couldn’t leave Jesus in the parking lot.
You can expect:
Stories, essays, honest questions, church-culture translation, a little holy irritation, and enough humor to help the hard parts go down.
MEET MARY R. SNYDER
Storyteller.
Speaker. Writer.
Question asker.
Jesus follower.
Mary R. Snyder has spent more than twenty years helping people and organizations tell stories that move hearts and inspire meaningful action. She has worked from stages, backstage, inside nonprofits, and around more church fellowship tables than any one person should have to count.
She’s also the woman behind Birdy Mae—although these days, there’s not much “behind” about it.
After more than thirty years inside evangelical church culture, Mary is asking some of the questions she once thought good Christians weren’t supposed to ask. About faith. Women. Power. Politics. Belonging. And whether what we’ve called Christian actually looks much like Jesus.
She doesn’t have all the answers.
She’s gotten a lot more comfortable with the questions.
SPEAKING & CONVERSATIONS
Some things need to be said out loud.
Mary speaks about faith, storytelling, women, church culture, Christian nationalism, and what happens when we start asking whether the things we’ve called Christian actually look like Jesus.
She brings story, humor, lived experience, and the kind of questions that make for really good conversations—and occasionally make things a little uncomfortable.