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Many friends and colleagues have been instrumental in moving this project to completion. Special thanks to Sharon Gartland and InterVarsity Graduate Fellowship, Diversionary Theatre, and Innermission Productions for supporting this work in its early stages—and to the Brehm Center, for its continued commitment to artists of faith. Thank you to Clay Schmidt, Anna Carter Florence, Dan Kirsch, and Scott Erwin who heard small portions of the whole and encouraged me to keep writing. Thank you to Sally A. Brown, Michael Brothers, Richard Lischer, and Charles Campbell for finding a role for these pieces in their seminary teaching. I am especially grateful to Anna Gillette, Wendy Mohler, and Austin Shelley, who brought Space for God to life at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2010—and to all those who attended the 2012 reading of Promised Land. I am blessed to have a learning community that enriches my writing with insight and Spirit-filled feedback. Over the course of five years, Patricia Loughrey and Annie Dominguez read multiple versions of these pieces with patience and care. I thank them for their careful attention to both the text and my heart.

Most importantly, I thank my family of flesh and families of faith—particularly, Wes, Mercy, and Josiah. You fill our home with milk, honey, and daily joy. You make me brave.