About the Author

Jeremy Bouma is a former congressional staffer with the U.S. Senate who spent over a decade in ministry, first ministering on Capitol Hill and later pastoring in West Michigan with the Evangelical Covenant Church. He holds a Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. He is a writer, a contributor to OnFaith, and the author of several books, including From There and Back Again: A Novel and Understand Emerging Church Theology. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his wife and son.