The Long Amen arrives May 19, 2026. It is the most personal book I have ever written. Before you decide whether to read it, I want to tell you what it is, and what it isn’t.
It is not a thriller. There are no cyberattacks, no compromised radar systems, no countdown clocks ticking toward catastrophe. There is no protagonist racing against time to save hundreds of lives. And yet, in a way I did not fully understand until I finished writing it, The Long Amen is about the same thing all my books are about: what happens to a human being when they are standing in the gap between what they know and what they cannot control, and they have to decide whether to keep going.
The Long Amen is a forty-day devotional, and the first book in The Sacred Between collection. It was written for the person who has been praying the same prayer for so long that they have lost count of the days — and started to wonder whether the counting matters at all.
Forty Entries. Four Movements.
The Long Amen is organized into four movements, each one corresponding to a phase of the prayer journey that most devotional books rush past or skip entirely.
The Asking — Prayer has to begin somewhere, and it begins the moment you put your deepest need into words. Not the polished Sunday-morning version of your prayer, but the raw one, the one that sounds more like a plea than a petition. The Long Amen begins here because honesty is the only foundation worth building on.
The Silence — This is the movement most prayer books will not touch: the part where you have prayed and nothing has changed. The ceiling feels low. The sky feels closed. You begin to wonder if the problem is your faith, your method, your worthiness. The Silence does not offer easy answers because easy answers would be lies. Instead, it sits with you in the quiet and refuses to pretend that the quiet is comfortable.
The Wrestling — Here faith becomes a fight, not against God but to stay: to keep praying when prayer feels futile, and to keep believing when belief costs you something. The Wrestling is for the person who has been told to “just trust God” one too many times and wants to throw something at the wall. I wrote these entries because I have been that person, and platitudes did not help me. What helped me was knowing I was not the only one wrestling.
The Amen — The final movement is not about getting the answer you asked for. It is about arriving at a place where your faith is no longer contingent on the outcome. The Amen is the deepest word in the Christian vocabulary because it means “so be it” — and meaning it, truly meaning it, is the hardest thing a praying person will ever do.
Each entry includes a reflection, a scripture, a prompt for honest conversation with God, and a single sentence to carry with you through the day. There is no filler or fluff; every word earned its place.
Who This Book Is For
I did not write The Long Amen for the person whose prayer life is thriving. I wrote it for the person whose prayer life is surviving.
This book is for the parent who has been praying for a wayward child for seven years and is running out of ways to say the same prayer, and for the spouse praying every night for a marriage that is not improving. It’s for the one waiting in a hospital corridor who has said everything there is to say to God and now sits in the silence, wondering whether the silence is an answer. It’s for the believer who still shows up on Sunday morning even though their Monday through Saturday looks nothing like victory.
If you have ever whispered a prayer into the dark and heard nothing back, this book was written with you in mind.
The Sacred Between — Five Books, One Collection
The Long Amen is Book One of The Sacred Between, a five-book devotional collection that maps the full terrain of the life of faith in the spaces between certainty and hope.
- The Long Amen — Prayer and the silence between asking and receiving
- The Honest Hour — Worship when your heart is not in it
- The Narrow Rest — Sabbath and the discipline of stopping
- The Steady Hand — Faithfulness in seasons of invisibility
- The Final Word — Trust when the story does not end the way you prayed
Each book stands alone. You do not need to read them in sequence. But together they form something I have not found anywhere else: a devotional library that takes the hard seasons as seriously as the breakthroughs.
The Cover
The cover of The Long Amen is a hallway. A long one. There is a door at the end, and underneath the door, there is light.
That is the whole theology of this book in a single image. You are in the hallway. The light is real. You have not arrived yet. And the walk between where you are and where the light is — that walk is not wasted. That walk is the devotion.
I wanted a cover that did not promise something the book does not deliver. The Long Amen is not a book about getting your breakthrough in forty days. It is a book about what happens to your soul during the walk, and why the walk itself is sacred ground.
Formats and Pricing
The Long Amen will be available on May 19 in three formats:
- Paperback — $16.99
- Hardcover — $24.99
- eBook — $9.99
An audiobook edition is in production for later release.
May 19, 2026
I have been working toward this date for a long time. Not just the months of writing and editing, but the years of living inside the material. Every entry in The Long Amen passed through the same filter: is this true? Not true in the safe, theological, arm’s-length sense. True in the way that matters at three in the morning when you are the one doing the praying.
I believe it is. And I believe you will feel the difference the moment you begin reading.
Keep Reading
- The Long Amen — Book Page — Formats, pricing, and pre-order links for the first book in The Sacred Between.
- The Sacred Between Series — The full five-book devotional collection overview and reading order.
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