We were grateful to welcome Ryan and Micah from Tracing the Cross to The Shroud of Turin: An Immersive Experience in Orange County. Thank you both for making the trip, spending time with our team, and helping more people take a serious look at the Shroud.

In their new video, Ryan and Micah sit down with Father Andrew Dalton to learn more about what the Shroud shows, why it has drawn so much scientific attention, and why it matters for Christian faith and history.

One reason we were especially glad to host this conversation is that the Shroud belongs to the whole Christian family. Long before divisions between East and West, and long before the Reformation, Christians venerated the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ as one Church. The Shroud points straight to that shared center: the crucified Lord.

Christ’s bones were not broken, as the Gospels emphasize, but the Shroud’s image does show signs of real trauma, including facial injury consistent with a broken nose (cartilage can break even when bones do not). It is a quiet reminder that the Passion was not an idea or a symbol. It was a real body, real wounds, real blood, and real burial.

That is also why the Shroud can “speak” across Christian traditions. It does not ask you to start with an argument. It asks you to look, to listen, and to consider the man the Gospels proclaim. In that sense, the cloth that once wrapped the wounded body of Christ still has the power to draw hearts back toward the same Lord, and toward one another.

If you have not watched Ryan and Micah’s visit yet, we encourage you to check out their conversation with Father Dalton and share it with a friend who has questions about the Shroud.