Thank you to the authors for writing this book. It's messy and they are unconventional Christians. I think Jesus likes that about them. A thoughtful, informative read.

“Sick Pilgrim” blog cofounders Jessica Mesman Griffith and Jonathan Ryan deliver an antidote to what Barbara Brown Taylor calls “full solar Christianity”—a failure of the church to grapple with suffering in "Strange Journey." Framed by the liturgical year, Jessica and Jonathan delve deeply into the darkness of their own lives—particularly the death of her mother when Jessica was a child, and Jonathan’s divorce—and their search for healing and belonging. With essays weaving together Bigfoot, the paranormal, and the occult, to other experiences in and out of several Christian traditions, their "strange journey" links the culturally mysterious to mysteries of faith that are novel to me. As the title reveals, they both return to Catholicism, an ancient tradition that holds sacred space for suffering. Through their honest and searing prose they invite us—the “sick and strange”—to contemplate our own journeys alongside theirs.