Children of the Promise: An Introduction to Western Rite Orthodoxy

There have been many books written about the Eastern Orthodox Church, covering its history, worship, and spirituality. At the same time that the Orthodox Church has emerged from oppression in Eastern Europe, revealing a spiritual depth able to with stand genuine evil, it has also begun to attract members in Western Europe and North America, disappointed in the superficiality and materialism into which Western Culture has declined. Children of the Promise tells of those whose Orthodox vision is that of the West transformed rather than denied: Western Christian practice returned to the Orthodox faith that shaped the Western exprience for a thousand years.

Michael Keiser has served as an Orthodox priest for twenty-eight years, as a pastor, missionary, lecturer and writer, both in the United States and Great Britain. He has worked with twenty-five different congregations, developing programs for spirituality, church growth, and outreach. In addition, he has written books on prayer, and suffering. Although he currently lives in Florida, he stills serves as a missionary priest through out the United States.