This is a masterful collection of comparative descriptions of forty of the world’s prominent spiritual belief systems It will be at home in the library as a most valuable reference work It is much more exciting, however, by the fireside where it inevitably gives rise to conversations, discussions, and solid research, which replaces our previously vague concepts of other peoples’ faiths with the rewards of greater truth and knowledge It’s like a magnet that draws people into its pages and then encourages them to share their findings What a much-needed and delightful surprise! —Ann K Robyn Lebron has gone the distance and done the hard work of analyzing a plethora of faith traditions for inquiring minds The reader will find in these ooks much with which to disagree The disagreements, however; will not be with Robyn Because there are so many belief systems out there, one must necessarily find disagreements A proposition cannot be true and untrue at the same time Robyn has not tried to say all beliefs are the same; she has tried to be honest in letting each faith group “set forth an account of those things which are most assuredly believed among us” (Luke 1:1) The task was daunting; her attitude was tenacious; the outcome is a very helpful contribution to the discipline of understanding other beliefs —Steve Drake Vice president, LifeWay