Too often the institutional church presents God as a celestial, judgmental ruler consigning us to our richly deserved fates in the afterlife. This well-reasoned discourse represents one priests personal search for the reality of Christ. He shows us how we can hard back to the transcendent lives of the early Christians and become true disciples of Jesus. The message is that God is with us. Following the teachings of Jesus, we too can get to the Promised Land, for Heaven is fellowship with God and Man, here and in the afterlife, now and forever.

About the Author

The Rev. Michael Schulenberg has been an active Episcopal priest since graduating from theological school in 1969. He has ministered four congregations in the U.S. He and his wife, Karen, are now retired in Minnesota where he hopes to devote more time to family and to writing.