Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Rev. Oh Kyung-tae is the senior pastor of Saebit Central, a brilliant expositor in his sixties and the builder of a church of forty thousand. He preaches the safe, central theologians, loves his flock and means every word he says to them. When the world's new order reaches Korea and the presbytery wants it tested before the church goes near it, the commission goes through him.

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…

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…

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