Today meets yesterday and tomorrow in this creative approach to Church history Thirty "peak moments" in this 2,000-year story are presented with verve and insight as the author gives us Church history from a human perspective. Through mini-dramas, interviews, diaries and dialogues, he invites us to experience the past so its relevance for our own day can be better appreciated.

This one-volume Church history for adults grows out of Father McBride's earlier textbook series, The Pearl and the Seed. It attempts to respond to that question increasingly on the Catholic mind: How did we get "here" from "there" and "where" are we heading next?