Roots of Faith - Cleveland Anthony Jay

Are you ready for a journey? Roots of Faith is a journey through time and space. The journey begins in ancient pagan Celtic Britain and ends on the bloody civil war battlefields of northern Georgia. You will meet interesting characters along the way … some real and others created to enhance your reading experience. You will discover the evangelistic activities which led to the conversion of pagan Celt. You will experience the terror of battle as Norse Viking clashes with Anglo Christian. You will understand the frustration that results when King decides what his subjects are to believe. You will see the world and the Christian faith through the day to day lives of the four families this book follows through 1600 years of British and American history. This story is told through the actions, words and feelings of the unique characters who come alive on these pages. On this journey you will meet Bronwyn, a young slave girl who has fallen in love with her master the clan chief and then meets the wise and gentle Mungo who teaches her of the Christ who can set her free. You will meet old William who hid the daughter of the famous William Wallace from English assassins and learn of his mysterious connection with the Abbey of Paisley. Your heart will be moved by the forbidden romantic love that develops in turbulent Ulster between transplanted Presbyterian Scot and native Irish Catholic. This journey will take you across the great Atlantic Ocean as you travel with the indentured teenage servant Alexander to his new home in the colony of Virginia. Yes, you will meet many unique individuals on this journey and they all have one thing in common, a faith in God that bends but does not break. And in the end of this journey you will rediscover that faith, hope and love are all that really matters. Are you ready?