"I haven't given up on God, but I just don't know how to pray anymore."
If you've stepped away from evangelical Christianity--or are quietly questioning it--you may still feel a tug toward prayer, even as the old words, habits, scripts, and formulas no longer work. Maybe We Could Pray Again is written for anyone asking: How do I pray now?
Writer and self-described "recovering evangelical" Liz Cooledge Jenkins unpacks her own experiences of prayer in the evangelical world--the good, the bad, and the weird. And she invites you to gently and courageously reimagine prayer as something bigger, freer, and more honest than what you were taught. This is not a guide to doing prayer "right," and it's not an argument for certainty. Instead, it's a companion for disorienting times that makes room for anger, grief, doubt, exhaustion, joy, protest, and hope.
You'll explore prayer as lament when there is no peace, as resistance in the face of injustice, as rest in a world obsessed with productivity, and as connection when God feels silent. Drawing on expansive readings of Scripture, lived experience, and the wisdom of women, queer thinkers, and people of color, Cooledge Jenkins affirms what you may already sense: that prayer does not belong to harmful systems or authoritarian power structures.
Maybe We Could Pray Again meets you exactly where you are and affirms that where you are on your journey is good. If you long for a spirituality rooted in justice, tenderness, and deep freedom, this book offers a simple, hopeful invitation: Prayer is still available to you--and prayer might still surprise you.
