The Open Door by Frederica Mathewes-Green

The Open Door by Frederica Mathewes-Green

Discover how icons can become part of your own life of prayer.

Encounter twelve of the world's most significant Orthodox icons with one of today's best-loved spiritual writers as your guide.

The Open Door provides an open window into a radically different approach to spiritual formation, one that is more ancient/Eastern than modern/Western, one that feels refreshingly new as well as seasoned, rich, and time-tested. --Brian McLaren, author of Everything Must Change and A Generous Orthodoxy

The joy of this] book is to allow us to meet the icons where the saints want us to meet them - face to face in a prayer corner, in candlelight as we approach the altar, above the beds of our sleeping children. . . . This book is a call to stand still, take a deep breath and face the cloud of witnesses. --Terry Mattingly, columnist, Scripps Howard News Service

Frederica Mathewes-Green is the author of ten books and hundreds of pieces that have appeared in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Smithsonian, and the Wall Street Journal, among other media. She has been a regular commentator for NPR, a columnist for Religion News Service, Beliefnet.com, and Christianity Today, as well as a podcaster for Ancient Faith Radio. As a speaker, she is in high demand. She lives with her Rev. spouse. At Johnson City, Tennessee, Gregory Mathewes-Green. Their three grown children are married and have fourteen grandchildren.