Marcus Grodi, host of EWTN's The Journey Home
[There We Stood] is a much-needed resource for Lutherans seeking the fullness of the Catholic faith.


Culture Wars, September 2001
This splendid book has a powerful, encouraging moral for the Church.


National Catholic Register, April 2001
This is a gentle, reverent and honest book, pointing to fullness, beauty, goodness and truth.


Catholic Dossier, September/October, 2001
This book explodes the conventional myth that says there is very little difference between contemporary Lutheranism and Catholicism.


Catholic Servant, December, 2001
The first book of its kind – it includes beautiful and memorable testimonials of love for God and the Church.


Patrick Madrid, author of Surprised by Truth
Introduces 11 new voices into the ever-growing chorus of those who are drawn to the Church Christ established.


Book Description
Nearly 500 years ago, Martin Luther broke with the Church. In There We Stood, Here We Stand, 11 former Lutherans talk about what brought them back. Edited by Catholic writer, Tim Drake, with a foreword by Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, these provocative testimonies reveal just how far the Lutheran church has strayed from traditional Christian teaching. Their stories address the differences between Lutheranism and Catholicism - differences so profound that they have led many into the Catholic Church.


From the Publisher
From the Foreword The essays in this volume represent a small but important part of a much larger story … As is luminously clear in the following essays, people are earnestly searching for the truth about Christ and his Church. They are exploring the proposal of the Second Vatican Council that, if one is convinced that the claims that the Catholic Church makes for herself are true, then one is in conscience bound to enter and remain in full communion with her. Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor, First Things


From the Author
When my wife Mary, a lifelong Catholic, and I, a lifelong Lutheran, were first considering marriage we frequently heard the admonishment that, “Lutherans and Catholics are so alike today that there really is very little difference between the two.” Well-meaning family and friends were trying to emphasize our similarities and make light of our differences to provide us some comfort in the decision we had made to spend the rest of our lives together. Yet, I asked myself, if the two are so similar, then why are they still divided? While Mary and I had discussed the similarities and differences during our courtship it didn’t take long into our marriage for those differences to rear their ugly head. Such differences included why Mary needed to attend a Catholic Church even if she had attended a Lutheran service, why I couldn’t receive Holy Communion in a Catholic Church, as well as the usual Protestant misunderstandings regarding Mary, the Saints, and the Pope. It would be six years before I would fully understand the context of those differences. Certainly, Catholics and Lutherans are similar in many ways. They are both liturgical. A visitor to both would find that the readings are the same on most Sundays. Both share similar prayers and share the sacraments of baptism, marriage, and Holy Communion. Both follow a Catechism. However, to ignore the differences is to ignore the actions of Martin Luther nearly 500 years ago, and the more than 20,000 Protestant denominations that have arisen since the original split. To ignore this fact is to suggest that Catholicism and Lutheranism are more similar than they really are. This is a disservice to both.


About the Author
Tim Drake is managing editor of Catholic.net, features correspondent with the National Catholic Register, and contributing editor of Envoy Magazine. He has published more than 300 articles in such publications as Envoy, National Catholic Register, Columbia, Faith and Family, Be, Catholic Dossier, Catholic World Report, Canticle, Gilbert!, and Lay Witness.