About Ann Roecker
Ann Roecker is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, award-winning book and publications editor, and certified fundraising executive advancing not-for-profit missions. She now writes Christian fiction for teens and young adults. She has worked with teens and young adults in inner city and university town churches, and in campus ministries at Stanford University, University of Colorado, and Central Philippine University.
Ann is married to Tim Cranston, a cum laude graduate of Harvard University and Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He sounds like Uncle Cliff in The Revelation of Emery Audubon.
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Three Fun Facts About Ann
- Famous storytellers have graced Ann’s life from an early age, beginning with Chester Gould, creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip. Gould named Dick Tracy’s police chief Pat Patton, after Ann’s grandfather. Gould and Patton were friends and fellow artists at the Chicago Daily News.
- While working for a faith-based publisher early in her career, Ann was assigned to edit Josh McDowell’s More Evidence That Demands A Verdict. Josh McDowell was the first apologist to answer Ann’s own questions about God when she was a college student.
- Ann beta tested The Revelation of Emery Audubon with students at Colorado Christian University (CCU). These students and their keen insights helped shape the final version of Emery’s story. CCU is a national center of excellence for innovative evangelism and applied apologetics. CCU has been named one of the top colleges and universities in the nation for three years in a row.
What is Apologetics Fiction?
C.S. Lewis called his fictional works “apologetics literature,” wanting his writing to entertain while shedding light on biblical truth. In this same tradition, The Revelation of Emery Audubon seeks to be a great read, while shedding light on Jesus Christ and why He matters to history — and to you and me.
Does apologetics fiction really matter in today’s world?
Why it matters
#1: It Answers Hard Questions About Faith
Apologetics fiction matters because young adults are coming back to church.1 The question is, will they stay? Research and history tell us they will if their hard questions about God are answered.
But many pastors aren’t apologists and most new churchgoers aren’t going to study thick books on apologetics. However, they will read a good story like The Revelation of Emery Audubon that tackles difficult questions about faith.
#2: It Equips Us For Victory
Apologetics fiction also provides a compelling alternative to stories portraying battle tactics that don’t equip us to win our own spiritual battles. So, what does equip us?
Read The Revelation of Emery Audubon to find out how one college student uses the Bible to fight her battle against the evil that is deeply entrenched at her university and is now out to ruin her life.
#3: It’s A Cool Way To Share Our Faith
The biggest reason apologetics fiction matters is Jesus Christ has called his followers to “disciple the nations” (Matthew 28:18-20). This means not only talking about God in churches where everyone agrees with us, it also means taking biblical truths everywhere. It means making Christianity a force to be reckoned with in the midst of opposition in the public square, like Emery Audubon does.
Does sharing our faith out there sound like a job we secretly hope someone else does while we cheer from the sidelines? Apologetics fiction to the rescue! Apologetics fiction is a great (and fun!) way to share biblical truth with others who might not hear it any other way.
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[1] See Barna Research Report March 2026.
[2] Pastor Dutch Sheets observed this in his genius Give Him 15 post on February 2, 2024.
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The Revelation of Emery Audubon
Emery Audubon’s future is bright. She’s been accepted into Holworthy Halls, New America’s most prestigious university. She doesn’t mind that Holworthy founded the Educational Reform Initiative — an initiative that banned the Bible and passed laws requiring schools to teach there is no God.
But everything changes when a fellow student invites her to take an illegal class on Revelation’s symbols, a class that meets in secret in the Histories Department basement. There Emery’s confronted with truths no one taught her in school, a spiritual war she’s never noticed until now, and the God who reigns and redeems.
Emery’s life is shaken even more when Holworthy’s Dean of Histories discovers she’s taking the class. Will this nationally recognized academic leader ruin her life, which he now has set out to do? Or will Emery use unexpected truths from Revelation to reform her school — and the entire nation?
