The Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer, Paperback

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

About the Author:

Frederica Mathewes-Green is a popular speaker, award winning author columnist for the Beliefnet.com, and the Khouria (spiritual mother) of Holy Cross Orthodox Church near Baltimore, MD. Her other books include The Illumined Heart, First Fruits of Prayer, and The Lost Gospel of Mary. Visit her at www.fredrica.com.