Witnesses of the Light

Walking the Land of Faith: 6th-Century Christianity is a historical novel told through the eyes of a nameless pilgrim who traverses the turbulent world of Christianity from 527 to 600 CE. From the imperial court of Justinian and Empress Theodora in Constantinople, to the desert monks of Syria, the Coptic Church of Egypt, the Nestorian community in Persia, and the Celtic monasteries of Ireland — the journey spans the breadth of the Mediterranean world. Along the way, readers encounter vivid depictions of real historical events: the Nika Revolt, the Monophysite-Chalcedonian schism, and the Three Chapters Controversy. At its heart, the novel asks: what is faith, and what remains when the fight for truth loses its love? Christianity's many fractured faces — persecuted yet surviving, divided yet enduring — resonate far beyond the sixth century.