Today is Tomorrow

Caroline and Mark are recruited by the Presbyterian Church in the US to work with war refugees in South Sudan, but their individual pasts disrupt their marriage and their new postings. Caroline finds relief in teaching and peace work, but the heavy responsibility she carries for dozens of vulnerable families and the prevailing ideas of Biblical womanhood make it increasingly clear that she is under-prepared for the crisis. Through a number of consequential mistakes and debilitating self-doubt, Caroline clings to hope that her willingness to stand with the South Sudanese will count for something in the end.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 June 2022
Publisher: Catalyst Books

By 1996, millions of South Sudanese had been killed, died of starvation, or fled the decades-long civil war ravaging their country. So when the Presbyterian Church in the United States begins recruiting a development team to work with war refugees in the region, Caroline and her husband Mark are eager to help. But it's only months before ghosts from their individual pasts whistle in to disrupt their marriage and their new postings.

Caroline finds relief in teaching and peace work in South Sudan, but the heavy responsibility she now carries for dozens of vulnerable families—coupled with the prevailing ideas of Biblical womanhood that put pressure on her personal life—makes it increasingly clear that Caroline is under-prepared for the high-stakes crisis in which she is now embedded.

Through a number of consequential mistakes and increasingly debilitating self-doubt, Caroline clings to hope that her willingness to stand with the South Sudanese will count for something in the end.

A deeply personal examination of South Sudan at war—and a woman at war with herself—Today is Tomorrow shines a warm light on the darkest of places.

Weight: 364g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781946395672