Children of the Last Days Books in Order

Children of the Last Days is a loose cycle of novels that share a common spiritual horizon rather than a single linear plot. Set in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, the books imagine how ordinary believers might live and suffer in what feel like the last days of history.

The series opens out in time and space through the Delaney family of British Columbia. In Strangers and Sojourners, English outsider Anne and Irish immigrant Stephen try to build a home on the Canadian frontier, carrying with them inherited wounds, cultural memories, and very different attitudes toward faith. Their story stretches across the twentieth century, from wars and revolutions overseas to the quiet heroism and failures of marriage and parenthood.

Later volumes move into an explicitly dystopian near future. In Eclipse of the Sun and Plague Journal, Canada slides into a soft police state where propaganda replaces conversation and a small town newspaper becomes a dangerous place to tell the truth. Members of the Delaney family and their friends are scattered, hunted, and forced into the wilderness, yet their choices in crisis show how conscience, family loyalty, and grace can survive in hostile systems.

A Cry of Stone shifts the focus to Rose Wabos, a poor Indigenous artist from northern Ontario whose life intersects the wider cast in unexpected ways. Her poverty, artistic calling, and deep interior life give the series one of its most intimate portraits of holiness growing in weakness.

With Sophia House, the saga reaches back into wartime Warsaw. Bookseller Pawel Tarnowski hides young Jewish refugee David Schäfer in his attic, and their dangerous conversations about good and evil, beauty, and God prepare the ground for the later mission of Father Elijah. Here the recurring themes of spiritual fatherhood, sacrifice, and the weight of small choices stand out sharply against the brutality of occupation.

The explicitly apocalyptic thread comes to the foreground in Father Elijah and Elijah in Jerusalem. David, now a Carmelite priest and later a bishop, is sent by the Pope to call a powerful world leader to repentance, even as a new global order and a subtle persecution of the Church are taking shape. These novels weave Vatican intrigue, world politics, and mystical experience into a story about obedience and hope when institutions and personal strength seem fragile.

Taken together, the Children of the Last Days books offer a tapestry of lives linked across generations. The tone is serious and reflective, but there is warmth, humor, and deep affection for families trying to stay faithful. Readers can start almost anywhere, yet many find it helpful to begin with Father Elijah or Strangers and Sojourners, then watch how the threads tighten as the series moves toward Jerusalem.