Author of "Beneath the Graffiti - a De-Churched Christian's Search for Christianity", CJ Penn shares words of hope for listeners, encouraging them, if they are de-churched, or considering leaving the Christian church, to explore the reality of the Holy Spirit through reading the Gospels, particularly John, and to find comfort in this presence during challenging times.

After becoming an almost-every-Sunday Christian churchgoer in his mid-thirties, CJ Penn helped lead the church junior high youth group.

Then, in his late-forties, CJ left church and joined the ranks of the de-churched. He soon discovered he wasn’t alone. Shortly after becoming another church refugee, CJ fell into writing as a way to express his devotion to Jesus, a devotion that, if anything, grew after he stopped attending church.

More recently, CJ retired  ...