On Holy Ground

Angelwalk #9

by Roger Elwood

The mysterious realm of spiritual warfare plays a vivid part when a madman enters a church, opens fire on hundreds of young people, killing seven and wounding others. Award-winning author Roger Elwood lifts the veil between the natural world and the supernatural. In this latest sequel to the original Angelwalk novel, he creates a new genre, blending reality with the literary techniques of his internationally best-selling series. True-life human drama has never been more compelling. Expect to be startled...shed tears...rejoice.

176 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2001

About the author

Roger Elwood was an American science fiction writer and editor, perhaps best known for having edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in the early 1970s. Elwood was also the founding editor of Laser Books and, in more recent years, worked in the evangelical Christian market.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't want to damn Elwood with faint praise, but I also don't want the review to be longer than the book. Which seemed to be plotted like he was trying to finish an all-nighter and make a page count. Elwood uses the characters of his Angelwalk novels, Steadfast and Darien, to attempt to dramatize the mass-murder at Wedgwood Baptist Church in the fall of 1999. He does so, but only barely. And much of the work is appendices on spiritual warfare and theodicy. I found them worthwhile, but I'm sure a good percentage of that is confirmation bias, so someone else might take a different tack. In the end, the writing was an unpleasant mishmash of plain journalism and overwrought sentimentality. One star for writing it down; one star for Jesus.