Between the Black Carriage and the Open Door

A successful Boston architect who has built twenty-two churches but never felt God inside any of them sets out on a quiet journey to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Goshen, Indiana — spending time among the Amish and the Mennonites, two communities born from the same root but grown in vastly different directions. Through conversations with a plain-spoken Amish elder, a tireless Mennonite volunteer, and a pastor who admits his doubts openly, Daniel Hart begins to see that silence and song, fences and open doors, are not opposites — they are different languages for the same longing. A novel in the spirit of Paulo Coelho, Between the Black Carriage and the Open Door is a story about what we build, what we believe, and the light that enters regardless.