Michlaude Discipleship Project

A Visitor's Guide to michlaude.com: Where to Start and What You Can Use

By Michael W Winslow ·

On this page (9 sections)
  1. Pick your door
  2. Find a church that fits what you believe
  3. Read the books
  4. Short on time? Watch the book
  5. See how the whole story fits together
  6. Ask the library a question
  7. More to explore
  8. What you can count on
  9. Tell the author

Knowing Him, not just knowing about Him. That is what michlaude.com is for. It is a free library of books and essays on following Christ, with tools that put the research behind them in your hands. There is no account to make, nothing to buy, and no ads. You do not have to read everything, or go in order. Pick the door that matches what you came for.

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The visitor's guide in four and a half minutes.

Pick your door

Find a church that fits what you believe

The Denominational Mapping Instrument, or DMI, shows where your beliefs line up with the official teaching of 26 church bodies, where a point is still open, and where you differ. It asks 19 questions, one at a time, with a "help me decide" pop-up when a question is unclear. You can compare two church bodies side by side, and the Next steps tab helps with what to do with your result. Want to see an outcome first? Open the example. It never names a best church, and staying where you are is a good result. Your answers stay in your own browser and are never sent to the site.

Read the books

Start with What You Carry. It is a map of the other volumes: what the writings say a disciple needs to understand, with links to the volumes that go deeper. Books open in a page-turning reader with large type, so there is no wall of text. A bar along the bottom gives you contents, share, print, and scroll view, and a sidebar jumps to any section. You can share a page, or a passage you have selected.

Short on time? Watch the book

Many books have a video on their page, and a library card for a book with a video says "Watch the video." A video runs about one-twelfth as long as the reading. What You Carry takes about two hours to read, and its video gives you the whole book in ten minutes. The long volumes run about 34 minutes and the shortest books about 8. The narration is a synthetic voice, and each video's description says so.

See how the whole story fits together

The charts page has four charts: the Bible Tree, the Tracer, The Whole Story, and the Prophecy Explorer. You walk through each one a stop at a time, and the picture zooms to the part being discussed. In the Prophecy Explorer you can turn on Follow the text, compare two readings side by side, and use the overview map. The charts work on a small screen too, so a phone or tablet is fine.

Ask the library a question

Ask the Library links to an AI notebook that has read the books and papers on the site. Ask it how to hear the voice of the Spirit, or what the difference is between conviction and condemnation, and it answers from the writings, with numbers that open the passage behind each statement. Know three things before you use it. It is a research tool, not a writing tool. It is an AI and can make mistakes, so check the passage it points to. And it opens on Google in a new tab, so you need a Google account. A 2½-minute video on that page shows a real question first.

More to explore

  • The blog: the author's newer writing, newest first.
  • News: Christian headlines, each linking to the original story.
  • Quote of the day: one a day from a set of 100, shareable as a picture.
  • AI prompt tools: downloadable system prompts you can use with your own AI.
  • Read a shared document: paste the link to any public Google Doc and read it in the same page-turning reader.

What you can count on

It is free, with no account and no cookie banner. Your DMI answers stay in your browser. Anything made by AI is labeled as AI, including the narration of the videos. The DMI shows how views differ and leaves the decision to you. Pages are built for phones and laptops, with fallbacks for older browsers. The content is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Tell the author

If something is confusing, wrong, or broken, say so. Send a message, or report a bug with a plain form that also works on older browsers. If you are lost, this page explains the page you are on. Start at michlaude.com.