WORKING TITLE:
The Carpenter Trilogy
Recollections of an Almost Apostle
THEME: A comprehensive novelization of the life of Jesus and his experience as both God and man.
LENGTH: Approx. 224,000 words (all three volumes)
STATUS The first volume, subtitled, The Apprentice, has been self-published with Amazon. This is a print-on-demand arrangement. Author holds copyright. Interested main-line agents/publishers may inquire below.
HOW DIFFERS: The Carpenter Trilogy is the first novel that, although carefully conceived, reverent, and deeply spiritual, sheds the confines of proselytizing biblical fiction. Neither a Sunday school lesson nor historical lecture, The Carpenter Trilogy exposes the young man from Nazareth not as what we have made him out to be, but as someone inestimably unexpected. This is a portrayal of a robust Jesus, one who is intelligent, adventurous, shrewd and yet compassionate, humble, and alarmingly in touch with human experience.
MARKET: General interest readers looking for a story of Jesus they can own for themselves. The young at heart who desire authentic connectedness with a truly loving Savior.
AUTHOR
QUALIFICATIONS:
  • M.Div. in Theology
  • Ph.D. in counseling psychology
  • Author of Love Therapy (1974) and Shadow of Sodom (1978) both from Tyndale House, poems, children's short stories, scholarly papers, journals, blogs and Newsletters.
  • Former senior minister of three congregations
  • Psychotherapist and Christian counselor
  • Former Prison Fellowship Training Director
  • Seminar presenter/leader
  • Educator
  • Communicator
    • AVAILABILITY: Available immediately in Microsoft Word (agents/publishers only), or Adobe Acrobat .PDF file.
    SUMMARY: The life of Jesus is recounted by Joseph Barsabbas, called Justus. Considered one of only two candidates to replace Judas Iscariot, Justus provides the singular perspective of the one who was rejected by the casting of lots, comparatively impartial and independent, but who loved and felt loved by Jesus as much as any. Hear him tell the remarkable story of Jesus’ life, his own observations, the things he heard, and his own yearnings to be nearer to the presence of the man, the rabbi, the Savior.


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