The Long Surrender: A skeptic's assignment leads to a story he never expected

By Donald Romeo

Alex Warren made a career out of tearing faith apart. As a hard-edged columnist, he mocked Christians, railed against churches, and lived for the fight. But when his editor assigns him to cover the opening of a small-town church shelter, Alex walks into more than a human-interest story.

Inside Third Street Community Church he finds a group of people who refuse to fit his caricatures-people who welcome him without agenda, who stay through chaos, who call strangers family. At first he watches with suspicion, pen in hand, searching for hypocrisy. But as assignments turn into encounters, and encounters into friendships, Alex faces a question he's avoided his whole life: what if the faith he mocked has been the hope he needed all along?

The Long Surrender is a moving story of community, conviction, and the God who never stops reaching for us. For anyone who's ever doubted, wandered, or wondered if grace could really be for them-this is your story too.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FR9F6PPY
• ISBN13: 9798265595539
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"