At the dawn of 2020, Christian author-lifestyle influencer-lightning rod Jen Hatmaker posted on social media a photo of her pastor husband Brandon and her at junior prom in Oklahoma and reflected affectionately on their 26 years of marriage and five children. Of the couple in the photo she wrote, “I wish I could tell them it all works out and they will build a beautiful life and their children will delight them and this love lasts, and also they will never fit into those outfits again so they should take a few more pictures.”

Relatable, wise, funny, reassuring: it was the sort of classic Hatmaker post that has propelled her to popularity among a cohort of women, many Evangelical-adjacent, who are, at midlife, taking stock of the delta between their youthful hopes and their current reali

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