After his shocking advanced-stage cancer diagnosis, Tyler Staton found himself cast into a wilderness of emotion. Amid the struggle he found strength in the familiar solaces of prayer, soli­tude, and Scripture, but also through an unexpected source: writing carefully crafted poetry as a practice of prayer, like the biblical psalm­ists. Even after he went into remission, this practice awakened in him a new appreciation for how God uses beauty and the ordinary to draw us to himself. After Amen refocuses our attention on the role of wonder in the Christian life, presenting 50 devotional entries that feature biblical reflection, heartfelt prayer, and original poetry.

Through focusing on Jesus’s seven signs in the gospel of John, Staton shows how all of life is an invitation to be formed into the image of Jesus.