Root your faith in history.

We own our own story upfront and will respect yours. We are unapologetically Protestant with some Methodist influence. Our faith journey has led us into Evangelical, Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Methodist traditions.

You will find that we are willing to honestly and humbly engage any meaningful question raised in our studies. Changing our minds is not a sin. Where some controversy is represented which has not been obviously and clearly resolved by the Church, we will attempt to present every side in their best light.

In our selection of source material, we prefer those people and ideas which have most influenced the Church whether or not we agree with them.

With that said, we are theologically orthodox (think Apostles and Nicene creeds) and we do not entertain known heresy.

Yes. Don't stop reading your Bible! We're parents, and we understand very well that time is a limited commodity. We believe that your faith will be greatly enriched through this journey, and that you can find the time.

We're rooting (pun intended) for you!

A single volume containing curated primary source texts, along with integrated introductions, discussion questions, and study material, to help you understand and engage with the authors on their own terms.

In his introduction to Athanasius' On the Incarnation, C.S. Lewis said it best:

“There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very last thing he thinks of doing is to take a translation of Plato off the library shelf and read the Symposium. He would rather read some dreary modern book ten times as long, all about 'isms' and influences and only once in twelve pages telling him what Plato actually said.

The error is rather an amiable one, for it springs from humility. The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator.

...Now this seems to me topsy-turvy. Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.”

All of them. Month by month we will journey through the times of the earliest Christians up to the modern age. Not even in a lifetime could we honestly meet every author and figure in the faith - therefore ours must be either a selective experience or an endless one. We've opted for selective.

Each month contains a curated selection of personalities and writings, usually with preference for those most influential either in their own day or at a later date.

We ship on the eighth of every month. If you find us on the ninth - we're sorry, but it's worth the wait. As a family operation we can't currently support the demands of constant shipping.

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