New Book Review:

The Shroud Face to Face

Treat it like a crime scene: The Science, the Shroud and the Greatest Story Ever Told investigates the case for Christ

The Shroud Face to Face is a new book by Robert Orlando that looks at the Shroud of Turin the way we’d look at a cold case.

The science and the Greatest Story Ever Told are converging.

For centuries, our own ideology and beliefs have colored how we look at the Shroud of Turin. Within minutes, you could tell if you were hearing a Catholic, Protestant, secular, conservative, liberal, or atheist “take.”

The Shroud Face to Face by Robert Orlando gets to the story’s heart.

Orlando’s books and documentaries have lived at the intersection of culture, history, and belief. So he examines the world’s most famous relic the way we’d investigate a crime scene, pulling all the pieces together to tell a compelling story.

“Privately, I was suspicious of relics and pet theories about the ancient past — or so I thought,” Orlando explains. “Fast-forward two weeks later to Christmas Eve, 2021. My father was recovering in the hospital from a nasty fall but was improving and set for rehab when he died unexpectedly. The suddenness of his death, the shock of it all, stirred something unfinished in me.”