Bio

After earning a degree in Urban Studies, she convinced Westwinds Community Church to create a new position for her: “Director of Outreach” (it sounded better than “Overzealous Social Activist” on business cards).

Three years later, Sarah married Chuck Cunningham and joined her new husband teaching area high schoolers and living in an an unfortunately pink house on the south side of Prison City (nicknamed such because it houses the state prison). These experiences combined to inspire

Sarah’s first book, Dear Church: Letters From a Disillusioned Generation.

More recently, Sarah finished her Masters in Educational Leadership, which unfortunately resulted in no additional respect from her manic Jack Russell terrier, Wrigley. She and her husband currently live in southeast Michigan where they desperately try to meet the demands of the Emperor of their household, who is also known as the infant Justus.

Sarah’s spare time is devoted to matters of national importance, such as watching House, LOST, The Office, Big Brother, Chuck and Project Runway. She also surfs the web with impressive commitment, clicking on bizarre AOL “news” blurbs, obsessively checking her email, and leaving cheesy comments on her friends’ facebook pages. She loves theology, but also reads lighter authors like Anne Lamott.

Sarah is a member of the Burnside Writer’s Collective, founded by Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz. She has also contributed to Christian resources such as Relevant Magazine, Catalyst Monthly, Next Wave, Ginkworld, and the Ooze.  She and her faith writings have been featured in a wide range of media, including the Dallas Morning News, the Wichita Eagle, the USA Today and Christianity Today’s Leadership Journal.

In addition to Dear Church and Picking Weeds, Sarah also contributed to the Mosaic Bible (Tyndale 2009), unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity and Why It Matters by David Kinnaman (Baker Books, October 2007) and Out of the Ooze (NavPress, November 2007).