A life’s work in progress
Five books.
One long reckoning.
Business frameworks, a premarital workbook, the people and places of Northeast Alabama, theology for the algorithm age, and the history of a land that doesn’t get to forget. Same county. Same thread.
About the author
Matt Headley
Matt Headley is a writer, pastor, and entrepreneur based in Northeast Alabama. He spent a decade in ministry — church planting, seminary, a decade of Sunday sermons — before a manic episode collapsed what he'd built and put a name to something he'd been living with for years. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2025 and started writing about it. His books move between worlds: business frameworks for people who never got a clear message about messaging; a premarital workbook for engaged couples; theology for people who love God but can't go back inside the institution. He writes a weekly faith column for the Anniston Star and serves as a marriage officiant through The Aisle. He lives in Anniston, Alabama with his wife Heather and their four children.
Business · Field Guide
Clever Confuses. Clarity Sells.
Frameworks, positioning moves, and the furniture-maker scenes that make the argument real.
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Marriage workbook · prints after the Oct 18 show
Tend: Before the Wedding
Five conversations before you say I do.
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Essays · Place · Serializing now
Southern Legends
The profiles, the places, the history. Northeast Alabama as it actually is.
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Theology · Technology · Drafting
God & the Algorithm
How I became more rested and less productive.
In progress
History · 2032 bicentennial
The Chief Ladiga Trail
A reckoning, not a celebration.
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