Saints in Street Clothes is not a manual, a memoir, or a polished theory. It’s a fire lit in the margins of foster care, discipleship, and the aching wound of fatherlessness. Written by Jarrod Dillon, a foster father and community builder, this book is a call to arms for the Church to reclaim its forgotten mission: to be a home for the orphaned, the traumatized, and the unseen.
 
With raw honesty and spiritual clarity, Saints in Street Clothes draws from the rhythm of the liturgical year, the wisdom of the saints, and the gritty reality of children in crisis. From Advent’s long ache of waiting to the ordinary days of healing, Dillon invites readers into the sacred rhythms that shape a home built on presence, not programs. He doesn’t gloss over the pain. Instead, he places it at the foot of the Cross—and asks what resurrection might look like when it rises not in a cathedral, but in a foster home.
 
This book is also a blueprint for a new kind of monastery—one planted in neighborhoods, echoing with laughter, brimming with casseroles, and anchored in prayer. It’s for anyone who’s ever wondered where the Church has gone in a world unraveling—and what it might look like for the Church to rise again, one child, one family, one sacred neighborhood at a time.
 
Dillon writes with the conviction of someone who has knelt through the night beside a weeping child, prayed the Rosary with teenagers who’ve known only chaos, and fasted for healing he may never see. His vision is bold but grounded. He doesn’t ask readers to do everything—only to say yes to the next holy thing.
 
If you’ve been shaped by Unseen Warfare, The Way of a Pilgrim, or the Philokalia, you’ll find in this book a modern echo—ancient in its roots, contemporary in its call. Saints in Street Clothes is for spiritual fathers, weary mothers, parish priests, reluctant prophets, and anyone who still believes that holiness can be lived out in jeans and t-shirts, in broken neighborhoods, in real time.
 
This is a book for the Church that’s ready to kneel again.
And rise.
 
Available August 1st, 2025