The Writing Lab

The Writing Lab: Bio & Bookstore

On the professional side~

Darin Michael Shaw, MDiv, MA

Darin Michael Shaw has spent over thirty years navigating the intersection of the sacred and the struggle. After 21 years of pastoral ministry, he traded the pulpit for the page. As a freelance collaborative writer and researcher specializing in mental health and addiction recovery, Darin’s work is defined by a unique ability to bridge the gap between deep theological truths and the practical, evidence-based science of healing.

The Realities of Ministry Darin’s authority to speak into the lives of the hurting comes from twenty-one years in the trenches of pastoral ministry. While standing alongside families through their darkest valleys, Darin wrestled with his own addictive and emotional struggles. He experienced firsthand the terrifying isolation of being a leader who feels he must remain “whole” while his own internal world is fractured. This season of brokenness eventually led him to a deeper, more authentic rediscovery of his identity in Christ—one based not on his performance as a pastor, but on his status as a beloved son of God.

While he always counted it a privilege to speak to a couple hundred people on Sunday mornings, he is now honored to have hundreds of thousands read words he’s written every day.

Darin has written copy for several of the most well known and respected ministers, ministries, non-profits and humanitarian organizations in the world today. Books he’s ghosted or worked on collaboratively with his clients have become best-sellers. 

On the personal side~

Writers write. Storytellers tell stories. You’ll always find Darin with his laptop, tablet or a pad of paper and pen in hand. If he’s looking at you … you may have just become a character in his next story.

Darin and Shari raised four daughters and live today in wonder and awe of their amazing grandchildren. You wanna hear some stories?!?