Voice From the Ladder (Camp St. Innocent) Paperback – September 28, 2023

Religious concepts have a funny way of becoming physical and real at Camp St. Innocent, an Orthodox Christian summer camp. The impossible obstacle course is called the Hillside of Divine Ascent and each obstacle is named after a spiritual temptation. When an autistic camper cracks the code of how to get past them, the excitement of figuring it out first is too much for him. The ensuing outburst means he has to be separated from the group, but his counselor, Laura, is determined to calm him down, keep him in camp, and interpret the secret he’s trying to tell.Later, Laura’s co-counselor, Kim is lost in the mountains with only marshmallows to eat but doesn’t want to call for help or admit the mistakes that led her there. Another co-counselor, Silouan, goes on a service trip to Ukraine and must re-learn the meaning of humility to keep his church construction project alive.Voice From the Ladder, a young adult novel by Eric Thomas Ruthford, is the third in the Camp St. Innocent series and is full of humor and friendship as four Orthodox teenagers put their faith to work. Read more