Call Me Maury
That’s what my family calls me, and I prefer it.
I’m a dad. I was a chef for 17 years. I have a BA in Psychology with a specialization in Behavior Analysis and Research Methods. And somehow all of that ended up here—writing about the Bible for strangers on the internet.
If that sounds like an unlikely combination, you’re not wrong. I went from plating food at 11 PM to parsing Greek verb tenses at 2 AM. My wife is thrilled. No, her eyes glaze over every time I talk about this. I nerd her out. And why do I do this? Because this is obviously the natural career path that will get you riches and fortune. Also No.
I’m doing this for my kids. And myself. I went from collecting cookbooks to hoarding Bible books, theology, commentaries, lexicons, historical volumes—and a collection of dump trucks. I work in my kid’s playroom. No shame.
How I Got Here
I spent almost two decades cooking, either in hotel kitchens or as a private chef. I liked being a private chef, loved making my own menus after getting to know my client’s preferences. Matching research with the client’s needs, that was cool. Never really got away from that, now that I think about it.
If you’ve ever worked a line, you know—it’s controlled chaos. The printer never stops, the tickets pile up, and if you stop moving, everyone goes down with you. It teaches you to move fast, think clearly under pressure, and never waste anything. I still carry that.
Now I have two feral, tyrannical toddlers that critique my food and don’t listen to my theological arguments. So you must.
The psychology degree helps because I wanted to understand why people do what they do. Behavior analysis gave me a framework. Research methods gave me a discipline: don’t guess, go find out.
And then there’s the reading. Turns out I have a compulsive personality that needs to be fed constantly. I have a huge appetite for food and books, and I can’t turn either one off. I built a research system—a real one, the kind that lets me do deep dives on any topic, pull from thousands of sources, cross-reference original languages, and come out the other end with something I can actually teach. It’s what happens when a chef with a research degree discovers he can’t stop reading theology at 1 AM.
The best I can offer is using all of that to teach what the Bible actually says to the world we live in.
Why I Do This
Look, the world is dark. And hard. And on fire. And until Jesus comes back, we’re all in this mosh pit together—throwing elbows for our kids and trying not to lose our footing.
I’m doing it for my kids, and for anyone who needs a biblical answer to what they see in the world today—without waiting for Sunday.
Because most of what we face doesn’t happen on Sunday. It happens on a Tuesday afternoon when your kid asks a question you weren’t ready for, or a Thursday night when the news makes you wonder if any of it matters. And you need to know what you believe and why you believe it—right then. Not next week. Not at the next men’s breakfast. Now.
So that’s what we’re doing here. We’re showing you why you’re okay believing the Bible. And in that process—bringing down the cookie jar of dense theological topics for me, for you, for anyone crazy enough to care—I’m also learning. I’m not a pastor. I’m not a seminary professor. I’m a guy who knows how to research, who loves the Word, and who refuses to serve his family half-answers.
Just trying to survive out here. But if we’re going to do this, we’re going all in.
The Deep Dives
That’s what the Bible Deep Dives are about. The DEEP deep dives. The kind that gives you a once-and-for-all answer to what the Bible actually says on a topic. Chapter by chapter. Verse by verse. Greek and Hebrew when it matters. Historical context when it changes everything. Not to show off—but because you deserve the full picture, not the bumper sticker version.
The goal is for you to form your own biblical worldview. Not mine. Yours. And if you disagree with something I write? Even better. I still love you.
As I tell my wife from time to time: “You’re allowed to be wrong.”
(She loves that one. Really. You can tell by the look she gives me.)
— Maury
Dad. Former chef. Researcher. Still learning. Still surviving the mosh pit. On fire.
