An Update of Sorts
Brief thoughts on capacity, clarity, calling — and why Coram Deo became More Bandwidth
How about a lil rebrand, shall we?
If you’ve been reading my words for any length of time, you’ve probably already gathered that I don’t make changes lightly. However, that’s not the whole picture… maybe it seems from the outside that my decision-making is swift, but know that once I’m there, an army of Orks couldn’t deter my stubborn stance. I’m the woman who reads (slowly) with a pencil in hand, looking for detailed connections to other works, who color-codes her G-cal weeks in advance, who spent the better part of a year researching George MacDonald’s theology before writing a five-thousand-word master’s proposal and then deciding not to proceed (for now… pray for my patient husband). Strategic, thorough, deliberate. Perhaps annoyingly so!
So when I say: I’m changing the name of this publication (and I mean it), you should know it cost me something to get here.
Coram Deo. Latin, meaning “before the face of God.” It’s been the theological lens through which I’ve written every piece in this space–the idea that all of life, the mundane and the magnificent and the genuinely messy, is lived in the presence of an infinitely wise God. This belief has not changed. If anything, the last year has only rooted it more deeply in me.
But I’ve also come to realize that the name was a filter. And not the good kind.
The woman I most want to reach–the one who is curious and exhausted and also maybe a little skeptical of the very institutions that would recognize a Latin phrase–might click away before reading a single sentence. You found your way here, so you’re probably not her. But she exists. And she is exactly who this work is for.
So. More Bandwidth.
It began as an inside joke, a way to echo corporate-speak and turn it on its ridiculous head. But the idea grew roots in my heart, and I couldn’t shake it. It’s layered, this idea, and it occupies my imagination more than almost anything else. It makes me ask questions like, what does it mean to be human? To be a woman? Well, it means a few things, at the very least…
Capacity. Most of us are maxed out. Google Calendars that look like a toddler went crazy with a box of crayons. Schedule syncs with your spouse that keep getting pushed to mid-week dinner. To-do lists on every device (also written on the back of a receipt at the bottom of your purse). I know this life because I’ve lived it, and I’m slowly recovering from it. This space is for women who are wide-awake to what they’re building, creating, sustaining… and who sense that something needs to breathe. More Bandwidth doesn’t mean more productivity; it means more margin for what actually matters.
Clarity. The culture is loud. It has opinions–strong ones–about who you should be and what a good life looks like, and it will sell you that version for a price. Bandwidth, in the truest sense, is about signal clarity: learning to hear what is actually true beneath all the static. For me, that journey is inseparable from what I believe about God, design, and the very intentional limits of a human life. You’ll encounter that in the work–hopefully not as a gatekeeper, but as the foundation beneath everything.
Calling. This is probably the single most important theme I return to in my writing. We spend our whole lives either running toward or away from the One calling us home, and I know because I’ve lived both. I want to explore what it means to walk out our true calling, as children of God, and inhabitants of this very specific time and place. I’ve pulled on this thread recently and would love your thoughts on this article.
These three pillars–capacity and clarity and calling—are what this space is about.
The writing isn’t changing. The voice isn’t changing. I’ll keep asking what a well-lived life actually looks like for women who don’t fit neatly into the boxes we’re handed. I’ll keep making the argument that the signals your body sends aren’t weakness, that your limits aren’t failures, and that there is a better, more beautiful way than the one we’re sold online. And I’ll keep approaching all of it from a place of deep faith… not as a prerequisite for reading, but as the reason I keep writing.
What’s changing: the name. The look (in process). And eventually I’d love to explore other ways to have this conversation with you, dear reader.
If you’ve been reading Coram Deo, nothing changes on your end. You’re already here.
Welcome to More Bandwidth.
— Sara