It has been so gratifying, in the year since we started ramping up Creed & Culture, to see at least one of our hypotheses be validated: namely, that a healthy number of really good authors would find this enterprise appealing. Just take a look at the list on our website. We’re off to a hearteningly great start.

Now, it’s a little bit greater. We’re pleased to announce a deal with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty for the publication of a book tentatively titled Teach Me Your Suffering: A Guide to Overcoming Our Afflictions by Embracing Christ Crucified. The book will blend clinical insight, theological depth, and personal experience to reawaken our understanding of suffering—not as a punishment to be explained, but rather as a pathway to love and union with Christ. 

Our intention is to publish Teach Me Your Suffering in Fall 2026. Think of it as a follow-up to Aaron’s bestselling The Catholic Guide to Depression, published by the excellent Sophia Institute Press back in 2012. With meditations spanning from the Incarnation to the Ascension and culminating in a personal consecration to the cross, Teach Me Your Sufferingwill be a devotional encounter, one led by the heart, that reorients the reader’s suffering in light of divine love. At a time when isolation and despair are increasingly common, Teach Me Your Suffering will speak to a universal human need.

You are probably familiar with Aaron Kheriaty’s work. He is the author of five books, including the recently published Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine. He’s also fighting heroically for civil rights. He is currently a plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court free speech case Murthy v. Missouri challenging government censorship on social media. For his work on this issue, Matt Taibbi has called him “the most ambitious theorist of the censorship-industrial age.”

Check out Aaron’s work at Human Flourishing, his impressive Substack. And put Teach Me Your Suffering on your radar for next fall.