She argued with the same priest that baptized her three weeks later.
Seventeen years of church, Bible study and daily prayer, and she still felt nothing.
But The book her friend handed her explained what no pastor could, in a way its impossible to not understand.
Church, coffee hour, Bible study, pray, repeat.
You go every Sunday. You know the verses. You pray.
And somewhere along the way it became a routine, and the peace everyone talks about, the peace Christ promised us, just never came.
Maybe you've tried other churches, hoping one of them could show you a new way.
“Maybe I was too far gone.”
One idea to a page. Every answer with its source.
240 pages · illustrated hardcover · cream linen with gold foil
“When you pray as deeply as you have studied the Scriptures, come back.”
Read and approved by Orthodox priests.
Carried in Orthodox church shops, where parishes hand it to visitors as a first introduction.
From readers who came in with questions
“I'd always found praying with images strange and a little uncomfortable. That chapter didn't argue at me, it just explained the reasoning behind it. It makes sense to me now.”
Susan A · USA“No fear tactics, no hard sell, no closing chapter telling me what to do about it. It lays out the history and lets you draw your own conclusion. That is rarer than it should be.”
James T · Sweden“I could not have told you what happened in 1054. That's not a complaint about my church, it simply was never taught.”
Samuel S · USA“Why are there so many denominations if there was one church? This gave me a straight answer, with dates attached.”
Linda M · USA
Three weeks laterShe went back. This time she knew why.
Same church, same friend, same two-hour service. This time she understood what she was standing in: prayers written down in the first centuries, kept the same ever since.
She asked the priest how to be baptized. That was a year ago.
The Orthodox Faith Made Clear
A 240-page illustrated hardcover in simple language that walks you through the faith of the first Christians.
It won't tell you which church to join, or condemn your current one. But give you enough information to decide, in a way a 10 year old could understand it.
“That peace I felt was the peace of certainty. My soul knew before I did.”