Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Kang Min-ho is Seo-yeon's husband of twenty years: a corporate middle manager by day and, at Saebit Central, the layman who runs the church's compliance, its finances and its building programme. Devout, orderly and quietly brilliant at making forty thousand people countable, he has never missed a dawn prayer that duty called him to. For him, a church that knows exactly who walked through its doors is a church that can keep every one of them, and there is real love in that, even if his wife cannot always feel it. As the world's new order arrives, nobody is better placed than Min-ho to make sure his church handles it correctly.

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

Kang Ha-eun is Seo-yeon and Min-ho's daughter: twenty, halfway through a university degree, and the warmest…

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…