The story of a young man’s amazing journey to discover the roots of the Christian faith in the Ancient Near East, that led him from Protestantism through the Messianic Movement and into the Catholic Church. This journey took him to the rainforest of New Guinea, the Old Synagogue in Warsaw, the Judean Desert, and into the heart of Ancient and Medieval Jewish tradition: the Hebrew Bible.

Along the way he meets a cast of odd and wonderful characters, false prophets, and saintly Catholics who teach him about God, Scripture, and Prayer. His steps are dogged throughout by God’s strange, providential provisions, despite his human blindness. At the heart of the ancient faith, much to his surprise, he discovered what a billion people across the world already knew and lived, the Catholic Faith.

This ground-breaking book can change the lives of traditional Jews, Messianic Jews, Protestant Christians, and wavering Catholics. And because it is a narrative from his life vs. an apologetics text, it will reach many who prefer the autobiographical genre. His vivid, rhetorical style renders complicated theological issues clear and understandable. 

“Two Jerusalems is a ground-breaking book that could change the lives of traditional Jews, Messianic Jews, Protestant Christians, and wavering Catholics. Because it is a narrative from his life vs. an apologetics text, it will reach many who prefer the autobiographical genre. His vivid, rhetorical style renders complicated theological issues understandable.  Highly recommended!”
—Ronda Chervin, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Catholic writer, Media Presenter and Hebrew Catholic

“Truth is stranger than fiction, or so the saying goes.  In the case of Matthew Wiseman, this proverb is fulfilled: the number and diversity of religious movements through which he journeyed is dizzying and would strain credulity were it not all so soberly recounted.  Through it all, Wisemen’s relentless desire for truth and consistency kept him searching until he discovered the ‘beauty ever ancient, ever new’. A moving story that is like a course in fundamental theology in narrative form. The reader will rediscover the inner logic of Catholicism that has drawn converts from every religion and philosophy for millennia.”
—Dr. John Bergsma, Ph.D., Franciscan University of Steubenville & St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

“The popular lyrics ‘The long and winding road that leads to your door’ seems like an apt description of Wiseman’s stunning journey to the Catholic Church which is biblical, intellectual and eminently practical. The experiences from Fundamentalist Protestant to Messianic Jew to Anglican and finally to the Catholic Church had other detours in between. The astute development of Wiseman’s view of Scripture and its interpretation within these various traditions is alone worth reading this conversion story.”
—Steve Ray, Author, Crossing the Tiber: Evangelical Protestants Discover the Historical Church

“In the author’s determined path to find the true, authentic Christianity, he recounts his journey from a Baptist childhood, through the “Hebrew Roots” movement,  into a deep involvement with traditional Judaism,  and finally through Anglicanism to his final home in the Catholic Church.  Along the way one learns a tremendous amount about the transition between the preparatory phase of God’s plan for the salvation of all mankind (Judaism) and its fulfilment (the Catholic Church).  But most importantly, one recognizes the hopelessness of any successful realization of that plan outside the “One Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church.”
—Roy Schoeman, Author of Salvation Is from the Jews

“The Two Jerusalems is a beautiful testimony of the spiritual journey of a young Texas Baptist who passes through Messianic Judaism and Anglicanism to the Catholic Church. Matthew Wiseman tells his story with charm, humor, and deep theological insight into the need for Tradition, liturgy that grows organically from its Jewish roots, and apostolic succession. Wiseman travels far abroad to come gradually to an unexpected home and find that nothing he cherished is lost on the way.”
—Lawrence Feingold, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary

“Matthew Wiseman was brought up in a typically shallow American Evangelicalism. Seeking tradition and a more objective authority, he and his family became enmeshed in the arcane world of Christian Messianism. Wiseman describes in detail how the trek towards tradition led him on an intellectual quest that ended with his reception into the Catholic Church. An absorbing, fascinating tale of one intellectual young man’s thirst for truth.”
—Fr Dwight Longenecker, author of There and Back Again—a Somewhat Religious Odyssey