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Hi I wrote you a book.

It’s called I’ve Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God.

You can pre-order it here (40% off + free shipping), here, you can contact your local independent bookseller and ask them to make sure they have it in stock, or you can do the same with your local library.

A year ago, I made myself a solemn vow:

I will not really start talking about this book until I have something for you to see or do.

Today, I have both.

Siri, play “Isn’t She Lovely?”

[We can discuss my hyperventilation/pants peeing re: Sister Sarah writing the foreword AT A LATER DATE.]

If you’re a part of the Swipe Up+, today you’re getting the entire dramatic journey of how we got that beautiful cover. And it WAS a journey, one that prompted Kendra Adachi to send me this text:

But I’m not saving it for fellow authors, because who doesn’t like behind-the-curtain, industry tea? You’ll get why she sent this, why my agent had to talk me off a ledge while he was in the shower, all the Easter eggs on the cover, and a footnoted list of the times I cried and/or said cuss words during this process.

But before the paywall break, I do want to take just a second to be Earnest on Main. Writing a book like this has always been a dream of mine. I had a pen name as a 3rd grader (Elizabethe Montegomery, thanks), my debut novel was The Time Gate¹, and I think it’s probably still handwritten somewhere in my childhood home. Part of the reason a publisher took a chance on me is because of you. Literally YOU. Because you’re here, letting me climb into your inbox weekly, or you listen to the podcasts, or you follow me on Instagram, or you bought a Bible study, or whatever. Because you gave me a vote of confidence in some way, with your time or energy or cash dollars already. And I need you to know I don’t take that lightly. I need you to know, as corndog as it sounds, you seriously helped me fulfill an actual dream. Thank you. It’s a very cool thing, and I am really hand-on-my-heart grateful.

And when I say I wrote it for you, I mean that. I thought about the conversations we’ve had here and in DMs and over email and sometimes when we were lucky, offline. I pictured so many of you that I’ve been able to get to know on a deeper level: your questions, your struggles, your joys and I wrote this for you, or really, for us. This is my letter to you about the best ways I know how to be loved by God, and how to love God and God’s people in these unprecedented times, when Western Christianity looks like a nationalized and commodified cluster. But I just don’t think we have to let the people who want to take it and twist it walk out the door with something we love. So this is how we persevere. This is how we untangle the necklace of faith and figure out how to wear it again. This is how we deconstruct and then deconstruct our deconstruction.

I really did write this book for you, and I hope it will be a good friend.

Okay, now it’s time to spill some book cover tea.