Hey, I’m Sara.
As a writer and chaplain, I help women see themselves in Scripture and make meaning from the hardest corners of our lives.
About me
I’m a writer and chaplain with a special interest in women’s spiritual care. I hold a Master’s of Divnity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a BA in Religion from Wellesley College and Oxford University. I’m currently interning at Haddonfield United Methodist Church, where I focus on women’s ministry and maternal ministry. Through my blog Sara Laughed, my devotionals, and my upcoming book on the theology of pregnancy loss (Eerdmans, 2027), I share the work of finding hope and reawakening wonder after grief.
Chaplaincy
I work as a perinatal chaplain, childbirth educator, and birth and bereavement doula at Wild Honey Perinatal, where I support people during fertility journeys, pregnancy, postpartum, and loss.
Book
My first non-fiction book, a theological memoir of pregnancy loss, is being published by Eerdmans in 2027.
Drawing on a tradition of feminist biblical scholarship, this book treats the miscarrying body not as a footnote to faith, but as a site of revelation—one where unique insights into God’s abiding presence are revealed. By sharing my own story, I invite women to meet God in the wound, name what they have lost, and uncover what their embodied grief can teach them about the divine.
Offering fresh readings of familiar texts—reclaiming Bathsheba as a woman witnessed by God, illuminating God as midwife in Job, and sitting with the wounds on the resurrected Christ to argue that we are meant to be changed by pain—I ultimately argue that miscarrying women are not written in the margins of the Church or the Gospel. Instead, by standing at the threshold of life and death, grieving mothers are uniquely positioned to understand the heart of God.
Bible journaling
For several years, I ran an online community that did daily Bible journaling challenges together themed according to the liturgical year. The last of these, Advent Illustrated: Waiting ‘Round the Wreath, was updated in 2025 to include new seasonal content, music, and recipes.