Hope Hilton in a preacher, writer, and composer, holding an MDiv from Pacific School of Religion at the Graduate Theological Union, and a Bachelor of Arts from University of the Pacific with a double major in Psychology and Religious Studies.

She has worked as a hospital and hospice chaplain, directed a United Methodist family camp for ten years, composed hymns played in over 60 countries a month, and teaches at Bishop's confirmation retreats and Annual Conference camps. She is a lifelong United Methodist — baptized, confirmed, and still there.

Her approach to Scripture follows the Wesleyan method: a foundation of Scripture, built with tradition, furnished with experience, tempered by reason — and guided by Wesley's three rules in their original order: do no harm, do good, stay in love with God.

“Do no harm” comes first.

This project applies that method where it is most urgently needed: the biblical questions where people get hurt.

The goal is to offer well-reasoned, experience-enriching scriptural interpretations based in methods that are faithful to God, Scripture, and Tradition:

A life-giving method of Bible study.