The Writing of David Ian Giffen
David Ian Giffen writes where the personal and the public collide: faith and doubt, belonging and exile, responsibility and forgiveness, institutions and the people they fail. The work gathered here spans distinct periods of his life, from ordained ministry and its collapse to recovery, fatherhood, migration, memory and accountability.
These archives do not preserve one fixed worldview. They preserve change: convictions tested, stories retold and conclusions reconsidered. Together, Giff on the Way, Way of the Giff and Giff on the Way Home form an evolving body of work about what it means to tell the truth when the truth is complicated, costly and still unfolding.
GIFF ON THE WAY HOME
Scotland, belonging, memory, faith and the complicated business of coming home.
July–August 2026 · Completed Series
WAY OF THE GIFF
Faith, leadership, justice, culture, institutional failure and the long work of rebuilding.
2026 · Archive
GIFF ON THE WAY
Faith, ministry, fatherhood, mental health and the upheaval that eventually became David’s 2020 memoir Redemptive Trauma.
2016–2019 · Archive
About the Writer
David Ian Giffen is a Glasgow-born writer, author and founder of Authentic Ginger Media. His work explores faith, identity, recovery, accountability, institutional failure and the complicated work of rebuilding a life.
He is the author of Redemptive Trauma and host of The Blue-Eyed Devil Podcast.