“Before Abraham was, I Am,” she says. Her eyes radiate the iron assurance of a disturbed mind.

Who is Sophia? Is she delusional? Is she a con artist? A messiah?

Many decades from now, a young man embarks on a quest to unravel the identity of a mysterious, charismatic woman. As he follows her from the streets of San Francisco to the sands of Mars, he begins to hope she can answer the questions that haunt him: Do life, suffering, and death have any meaning? Who or what, if anything, is God? Is there any future left for the fractured movement named after the one called Christ? Little does the young man know what his quest may cost him.

“Beautiful, poignant, and theologically insightful, I Am Sophia grapples with the Christian church’s sins and shortcomings and points toward possibilities for its future. As with important literature in all faith traditions, it uncovers eternal truths by engaging with real life in all its grittiness.”
–THE RIGHT REV. MARY GRAY-REEVES, emerita vice-president of the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church

“Alexander combines the gifts of a compelling storyteller, religious scholar, and visionary.”
–THE REV. DR. JANN ALDREDGE-CLANTON, author of Changing Church: Stories of Liberating Ministers

“With skillful characterization and inquisitiveness J. F. Alexander takes us to a future that has almost forgotten its age-old quest for the spiritual.” 

–DR. DAVID BRIN, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of The Postman and ailien minds

“Profound discussion questions at the end of the book make it ideal for small groups.”

–CHRISTIAN FEMINISM TODAY