Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Kang Ha-eun is Seo-yeon and Min-ho's daughter: twenty, halfway through a university degree, and the warmest person in a careful house. Two evenings a week and a Saturday she volunteers with a group of young people building small civic apps, and her proudest achievement so far is a fix that stops an elderly woman going hungry every month because of a form. She is secular-leaning, kind and unbothered by committees, and her working creed is simple: kindness scales, if you build for it. She likes exactly the people her mother out-argues for a living, and she asks the questions nobody else in the family thinks to ask.

Deacon Baek Ji-hoon is Seo-yeon's colleague at the counselling centre: somewhere in his fifties, soft-spoken…

Kang Min-ho is Seo-yeon's husband of twenty years: a corporate middle manager by day and, at Saebit Central…

Lee Seo-jin is Seo-yeon's younger sister, six years her junior, and the person the finest heresy-tester in…

Lee Seo-yeon is the heart of The Lampstand: a forty-seven-year-old senior researcher at a church-funded…

Rev. Oh Kyung-tae is the senior pastor of Saebit Central, a brilliant expositor in his sixties and the…

Yun Soon-ok is Min-ho's mother: ninety, small, neat and still upright, and the grandmother of the family…