This is an interview with Thilo Young about his book titled An American Flight to Egypt: A Western Evangelical Discovers the Ancient Faith that details his and his wife’s journey to Orthodoxy You can purchase the book by clicking this link: amzn.to/3H09Jkv

“God is still powerfully and gloriously at work in the Coptic Orthodox Christian Church. This is the account of God drawing a lost, hurt, and spiritually impoverished person to Himself. Deeply reflective. For those of you hurting and unable to let go of the past and to believe freely and fully, God’s work in this couple’s life shows that healing, love, freedom, and satisfaction is possible.

This book will make you laugh and will make you cry… from laughing. Believe me, I laughed out loud in many places. But it is deeply moving, eye-opening, and at moments will make you silent. Such reflectiveness by an individual is rare in this generation, but this type of reflectiveness is the way we become aware of God’s work in our lives.

Perhaps, unexpectedly, is that Thilo’s conversion story became interwoven with the Divine Liturgy. This is a deeper layer of the story, but I noticed it quickly, and his quotes at the beginning of each chapter help direct your attention as to how the things we pray in the liturgy indeed manifest themselves in our everyday lives. If this seems interesting, it is one of the reasons you should read this book.

Whether you are interested in a conversion account, or whether you want to see a pattern of reflectiveness that you can imitate and implement in your own spiritual lives, or whether you want to see how the liturgy can and is interwoven into our daily lives (only if we pay attention), then you should read this book.

This book shows that the faith of the Coptic Orthodox Christian Church throughout all its ages and wisdom and worship is still making true disciples of Christ to this day.”

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