On the Outside

In this monologue, a woman sitting on a park bench across from a church recounts her experience growing up when every week, she sat in church "third row, left of center." Her happy Christian family illusion was shattered one day when her mother announced she and her father were getting a divorce. The, the "divorcee and her kids" sat in the back of the church, outcasts and unwelcome. She angrily recounts her disappointment at how uncaring the other church members were during those difficult years. When she grew up, the woman left the church-and hasn't been back. The closest she gets is "the second park bench, left of the sidewalk."Willow Creek Association is the author of 'On the Outside', published 1995 under ISBN 9780310673514 and ISBN 0310673518.