brian fisher
Brian Fisher is the founder of Soil & Roots, host of the Soil & Roots Podcast, and author of Soil & Roots: Cultivating Deep Discipleship. His work helps Christians who feel spiritually stuck, disconnected from God, or hungry for a deeper life with Jesus explore the hidden ideas that shape their hearts.
Through the podcast, writing, books, and Greenhouse communities, Brian guides people into spiritual formation, Christian deconstruction, hearing God, and the slow journey of becoming more like Jesus in everyday life.
ABOUT BRIAN
founder
Brian founded Soil & Roots to help Christians move beyond information-only discipleship into a deeper life of spiritual formation with Jesus. Soil & Roots explores the hidden ideas that shape our hearts, our relationships, and our experience of God.
author
Brian is the author of Soil & Roots: Cultivating Deep Discipleship, a guide for Christians who feel spiritually stuck, disconnected, or hungry for something more in their life with God. His writing invites readers to explore God, themselves, and the Kingdom with honesty and hope.
speaker
Brian has spoken around the country on cultural engagement, Christian worldview, bioethics, apologetics, and spiritual formation. His teaching blends theological reflection, story, philosophy, and practical discipleship for people asking deeper questions about faith and formation.
podcast host
As host of the Soil & Roots Podcast, Brian guides listeners through a slow, sequential journey into deep discipleship, hearing God, Christian deconstruction, the Good Life, and becoming more like Jesus from the inside out.
what brian teaches
Deep Discipleship
Deep discipleship is the journey of becoming more like Jesus from the inside out. Brian teaches that genuine discipleship reaches beneath behavior and belief statements into the hidden ideas, desires, wounds, and stories that shape the heart.
The Good Life
The Good Life is not success, comfort, or religious performance. Brian describes it as the with-God life Jesus embodied: a life of peace, security, love, freedom, and participation in the present Kingdom of God.
Christian Community
Christian community is not simply belonging to a group. Brian explores how trusted, honest, spiritually formative communities help us know God, know ourselves, love others, and become people who naturally reflect the life of Jesus.
Christian Deconstruction
Christian deconstruction does not have to mean abandoning faith. Brian offers a pastoral path for Christians who are reconsidering inherited assumptions, wrestling with church hurt, or searching for a deeper, more truthful life with Jesus.
Spiritual Formation
Spiritual formation is the process by which our hearts are shaped into the character of Christ. Brian teaches that formation happens through time, habit, community, intimacy, and instruction — not information alone.
Hearing God
Hearing God is the slow practice of learning to recognize His voice through Scripture, prayer, community, and the circumstances of life. Brian helps Christians explore how to listen to God with honesty, humility, and discernment.
Greenhouses
Greenhouses are small, intentional Christian communities designed for deep discipleship and spiritual formation. They are not traditional Bible studies or small groups, but shared spaces for exploring God, self, others, and the Kingdom together.
Start Here
Not sure where to begin? Start with the question that sounds most like your own. Soil & Roots is designed for people who follow Jesus — or are drawn to Him — and find themselves spiritually hungry, stuck, healing, reconsidering inherited faith, or longing for a deeper life with God.
New to Spiritual Formation?
If you sense there must be more to life with God than information, activity, or religious routine, begin here. Explore what spiritual formation is and why becoming like Jesus is deeper than learning more about Him.
How to Hear God
If you believe God speaks but struggle to recognize His voice, this pathway explores how people learn to hear God through Scripture, prayer, community, and the ordinary circumstances of life.
The Good Life
If you are tired, anxious, restless, or wondering what Jesus actually meant by abundant life, begin with the Good Life — the with-God life of peace, security, freedom, love, and joy.
Christian Deconstruction
If you are reconsidering parts of your faith, wrestling with church hurt, or unable to go back to the version of Christianity you inherited, this pathway offers a more honest road forward with Jesus.
Greenhouses
If you are looking for deeper community with others who want to follow Jesus, Greenhouses are small, intentional spaces where people practice spiritual formation together through time, habit, community, intimacy, and instruction.
Soil & Roots: Cultivating Deep Discipleship
Brian’s book, Soil & Roots: Cultivating Deep Discipleship, is a short guide for people who follow Jesus and sense there is more to life with God than information, activity, or religious routine.
The book introduces the core Soil & Roots framework: how hidden ideas shape the heart, why spiritual formation requires more than instruction, and how we become more like Jesus through God’s love, self-knowledge, community, and the present Kingdom.
Ongoing Essays on Substack
Brian also writes regularly on Substack about spiritual formation, hearing God, Christian deconstruction, the Good Life, the hidden ideas that shape us, and the slow journey of becoming more like Jesus.
These essays are written for people who are spiritually hungry, healing, questioning, or longing for a deeper and more honest life with God.
PODCAST
The Soil & Roots Podcast is a slow, guided journey into deep discipleship, spiritual formation, and the hidden ideas that shape our life with God.
Hosted by Brian Fisher (with co-hosts Dr. Tim Boswell and Kyle Moody), the podcast explores what it means to become more like Jesus from the inside out — not merely by learning more information, but by uncovering the assumptions, wounds, desires, and stories that form the heart.
Across more than 140 episodes, Brian helps listeners explore hearing God, Christian deconstruction, the Good Life, the Kingdom of God, spiritual practices, Greenhouses, and the deeper journey of following Jesus in everyday life.
LATEST ESSAYS
Brian writes regularly about spiritual formation, hidden ideas, hearing God, the Good Life, Christian deconstruction, and the slow journey of becoming more like Jesus.
These essays are for people who follow Jesus, people drawn to Him, and people who are asking honest questions about faith, formation, healing, community, and the deeper life with God.
Why Personal Transformation Comes Before Cultural Renewal
Cultures do not become healthier merely because systems improve. Lasting renewal begins as people become more honest, loving, secure, and like Jesus from the inside out.
Why We Secretly Assume God Is Disappointed in Us
Many of us believe God loves us while living as though He merely tolerates us. The deeper issue may not be whether we think God forgives us, but whether we believe He genuinely enjoys being with us.
Why Grieving Is an Essential Christian Spiritual Practice
Grieving is not reserved for funerals. Mourning broken dreams, lost friendships, betrayal, injustice, and unmet hopes can lead us toward acceptance, peace, and deeper life with Jesus.
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