Our Story
A small press with a big love for the Church
“The person who loves God values knowledge of God more than anything created by God, and pursues such knowledge ardently and ceaselessly.”
St. Maximos the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love
It's impossible to get a picture with six kids where everyone is looking at the camera, but this catches the chaos well!
Who We Are
Exaltation Press was started in late 2018 by an Orthodox priest serving in the United States. As a younger man and a lover of languages, he traveled around the Orthodox world and kept meeting wonderful, high-quality books being published in other countries. Then he came home and settled into parish life, and ran into the same problem again and again. Parishioners would ask him to recommend books, for themselves or their children. He would know exactly the right book. But it would do no good, because it was not available in English yet. Exaltation Press is a loving attempt to fill that need. We are dedicated to serving Christ's Church by making more good Orthodox books available in English (and, Lord willing, in Spanish someday). Our patronal feast is the Exaltation of the Cross, on September 14th.
Our Purpose
Orthodoxy in English is a small fish in a large pond. We have been blessed with many good English-language authors and publishers doing very good work, but sheer numbers mean that for every good Orthodox book published in English, there are hundreds written in other languages, out of reach for English-speaking readers. Our main focus is translating and publishing those books into English, though we produce original content from time to time as well. In time, we hope to make some of them available in Spanish, especially given the historic wave of conversions to Orthodoxy in Guatemala and southern Mexico and the scarcity of good Orthodox material in Spanish. We also hope, one day, to have a way for people to donate books to be sent to the mission field.
What We Publish
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us that to be His disciples, we must take up our crosses and follow Him daily. The Orthodox faith is not an abstract ideal but a path to walk, with God's help. So we look for books that will be of practical use along the way. Because Exaltation Press was started by a priest who serves a parish full of young families, and who is himself a father, our heart is in good Orthodox children's books: books for the home and the Sunday school, and books that give parents advice and encouragement. We publish books for adults as well. Walk into a parish or monastery in a country steeped in Orthodoxy, and you will see thousands upon thousands of good books. We are committed to finding the best of them, in content, illustration, and overall quality, and making them available in English.
Ordering
Our books are available two ways. You can find them on Amazon, with its fast shipping, or you can order right here on our website. Ordering here takes a bit longer, but it supports the work of the press directly by keeping our costs down, and from time to time we offer sale prices you will only find here. We are a mission priest family, and we are grateful for every order that comes through this site. Church bookstores and religious education programs placing wholesale or bulk orders are best served by ordering directly from the publisher. Please contact us by email to get started.