The Heretic Hunters gets at the raw edge of faith—what happens when belief curdles into fear, when doctrine is turned into a weapon. But what stays is the quiet instinct of love and how it can still survive the noise of institutions obsessed with control. It’s about what happens when a person must choose between trusting what they’ve been told is infallible and trusting what their inner self knows to be true.

While the Christian community confesses that is the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, it has experienced numerous ecclesiastical conflicts and consequent interdenominational and intradenominational divisions. This fictional account is reminiscent of a major conflict within a North American Lutheran church body during the mid-twentieth century.

The personalities of the main characters, the theological debates, the quest for ecclesiastical political power, the passion for what is perceived as truth, the diverse interpretations of Scripture, the family and communal dynamics, and the broken relationships that result from conflict are explored expertly, realistically, and believably in the storyline. The paradoxical nature of the church, whose members are simultaneously saints and sinners, thus becomes
readily apparent. The novel will capture the attention of its readers and will remind them of the multifaceted and complex dynamic that is operative in human relationships within the church and beyond. Thus, the story actually serves as a “parable” for any time.