About Subway Scriptures

The Genesis of Subway Scriptures

I’ve been asked many times “What’s with the name Subway Scriptures?“

It’s a fair question. This site and these articles have nothing to do with the subway, or any other method of underground transportation. The columns rarely touch on religious matters, although there are a few Twitter followers of @subwayscripture who thought otherwise.

The real reason for the name is that sometimes, on the rarest of occasions, you can find meaningful statements in places that you would never think to look. Maybe you’ll find it in the form of someone sharing their opinion on a call-in radio show. It could be that one commercial that actually grabs your attention and makes you think for a second. Or maybe you‘ll pick up a newspaper on your commute home from work, and for the first time in Gosh-knows-when, read an story, or article, or sentence even, that’s actually worth the paper it’s printed on. Subway Scriptures aims to be that left behind newspaper.

SS does not have the resources to bring you up-to-the-second reporting or break the newest stories before any 4-letter acronym TV stations can. There are no dugout passes, locker room credentials, or award shows invitations sent to this address. And it would be unrealistic to think any of things were going to happen soon. But it is (somewhat) realistic to hope that someday soon, Subway Scriptures can become a source that people turn to for information on a subject-matter that tends to be followed quite religiously (Wordplay, get used to it). Great writing can be found, or written, just about anywhere, including a 5 o’clock metro car.