The book that predicted the crisis no one wanted to see—and also reveals the way forward is being re-released on August 11.

Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale

Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale

IAN'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK IN A SPECIAL RERELEASE

When Chasing Francis was first published in 2006, it felt prophetic. Today, it reads like a diagnosis and a cure. The spiritual hunger I mapped out in fiction has become the defining crisis of American Christianity — and the 800-year-old saint at the heart of it turned out to be exactly the guide this moment demands.

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"Beyond the beauty of the spiritual journey presented within these pages, Ian Morgan Cron is a masterful storyteller. I laughed out loud at some of Pastor Chase's presuppositions about Roman Catholics. Cron does a masterful job of bridging the gap, not to convince us to "switch sides," but to demonstrate that God is at work and has been at work in a variety of places and traditions."

– R.Spirling, reader

“St. Francis taught me that if we spent less time worrying about how to share our faith with someone on an airplane and more time thinking about how to live radically generous lives, more people would start taking our message seriously.”

– IAN MORGAN CRON

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The book that started it all

Pastor Chase Falson had everything a successful minister was supposed to want: a booming megachurch, a growing congregation, a platform. Then a child in his church died — and in the middle of a Sunday sermon, his faith collapsed in front of everyone.

With nowhere left to turn, Chase flees to Italy to visit his uncle Kenny, a Franciscan friar living in Assisi. What begins as an escape from crisis becomes the most disorienting, life-altering pilgrimage of his life. Walking the same cobblestone streets that Francis of Assisi walked 800 years ago, Chase discovers a Christianity so different from what he’d been living and preaching that it upends everything — and then slowly, painfully, puts him back together.

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