BOOK REVIEW

By Darryl Eberhart, Editor of “Tackling the Tough Topics” (TTT) and

“Examining the Tough Issues” (ETI) Newsletters (Website: www.toughissues.org)

Of the book “The TRUTH Set Us Free: Twenty Former Nuns Tell Their Stories”

By Richard Bennett, Editor, with Mary Hertel

All emphasis is mine unless otherwise stated. // June 25, 2007 (Updated: October 14, 2009)

“The TRUTH Set Us Free” is a 190-page paperback book that was published in 1997 by WinePress Publishing, Mukilteo, Washington. The back cover of this book states the following:

“Vatican Council II was completed in 1965. The Roman Catholic Church appeared to have changed her position towards Biblical believers. The Council had pronounced that they were now to be seen as ‘separated brethren’ (although it also reaffirmed the Council of Trent, which four hundred years earlier had declared Biblical believers to be heretics). [Ed.: Roman] Catholics could now ‘dialogue’ with them, enter their churches, and go to their Bible studies.

In the thirty years that have elapsed since then, much confusion has arisen both among Catholics and among Biblical believers as to where each stands today. This small volume brings the steady light of Scripture and the clear testimonies of twenty twentieth century women [Ed.: who are all former Roman Catholic nuns] to bear on this murky religious confusion of our times.

These women became nuns in Roman Catholic convents as [Ed.: what they then believed to be] their finest means of serving God. The testimonies are ‘inside stories’, intensely personal, wonderfully down-to-earth. They ask – and finally get the right answers to – some of the same questions that you yourself might ask.

The solid promise of Holy God in Scripture is: ‘And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.’ [Ed.: Jeremiah 29:13] This volume is modern testimony to that living promise.

“The TRUTH Set Us Free” will be of avid interest to:

• Dedicated Roman Catholics who often do not know the realities of convent life.
• ‘Lapsed’ [Ed.: Roman] Catholics who have become discouraged by the practice of a religious faith which has not answered his or her inner emptiness and confusion.
• Evangelicals who are being drawn more closely into ‘dialogue’ with Roman Catholics, unaware of the inner workings of that huge, seemingly mysterious system.”

I was deeply moved as I read the wonderful testimonies of these twenty former Roman Catholic nuns. These precious Christian ladies tell of the unspeakable joy they found when they learned the true gospel of “salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, on the authority of the Bible alone, so that God alone should have the glory” – a gospel that they never found in the convent! (The above quotation was taken from page 7 of the book.) I believe that all people who read this book will be richly blessed by the precious testimonies of these dear Christian ladies.

This excellent book is available from “The Conversion Center” for only $10 (U.S. funds) postage paid [to U.S. locations]. To obtain a copy of this book, please make your check or money order payable to “The Conversion Center, Inc.”, and mail it to: The Conversion Center // P.O. Box 31688 // Raleigh, NC 27622-1688.