About Whitney

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New Book •

Death teaches us how to live.

When Whitney K. Pipkin’s mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she wasn’t ready. How could she be?

We Shall All Be Changed is a companion for those experiencing the lonely season of suffering and death. In this book, Whitney reaches across the pages to hold the hand of the caregiver. Walking through death with a loved one can be incredibly isolating and unsettling. This book reminds us that we can experience God’s very presence in life’s dark and deep valleys.

Beautifully honest and theologically rich, Whitney invites us to consider death so that we might understand life and how to live it.

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Aiming to tell a truer story

‘I am’ statements can be fraught undertakings. What’s the most important thing for you to know about me? I am beloved of God—and not of my own doing. No, in spite of all I’ve done and been, this is a gift of God, simply received. (Ephesians 2:8).

I’m a mom of three and wife of one, settled for the last decade near Washington, D.C.—far from our roots in Kansas and Oklahoma—largely out of love for our local church in Northern Virginia. After losing my mom to the cancer she wrestled with for 20 years, I wrote a book that I pray will serve others who’ve walked or are walking similar roads of loss. We Shall All Be Changed: How Facing Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us (Moody Publishers, Feb. 6, 2024) tells the story of how the valleys we most fear can become the peaks of God’s presence.

I am a writer who grew up on Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie. I have yet to solve a mystery, but I have maintained day jobs in journalism since graduating straight into the Great Recession, which is something. I’ve worked as a freelance food writer, traveling to Italy and the Republic of Georgia to write about farming innovations and amber wine. These days, my work as a journalist focuses on topics like the environmental footprint of our data-driven lives and the return of dolphins to the Chesapeake Bay.

My Christian faith has long been a silent backdrop to my journalistic work, urging me to carry it out with integrity and faithfulness. But, after writing my way through my first miscarriage, I felt compelled to share the comfort I’d found in the person of Christ, this suffering Savior who rose again yet kept his scars. I often write the words you’ll find here with specific people in my local church in mind, longing to comfort with the comfort I have received. What a gift that they might shore up others, too.

You can find progress reports on the book and musings on the both-and life of loss and delight by subscribing to my Substack newsletter, Tell it True.

If you’re looking for a Christian writer or speaker, get in touch. I’d love to hear from you.