After reading "Havah," I will never look at the first five chapters of Genesis the same. I have never been so emotionally impacted by a book--not that I can remember. The author made the Garden of Eden, the relationship that Adam and Eve enjoyed with God, the love and emotionally intimacy shared ...
At first I wasn't sure I'd like it. While living in Eden, before eating the apple, it was a little weird - weird in a way like the book, The Shack, which I did not like. However, after eating the apple, and after their exile, it got more interesting. I really enjoyed reading about their lives (on...
I remember that as a child growing up in church, my Sunday school mates and I would marvel at how little faith and confidence the disciples had in Jesus. After all, we truly believed he WAS the Messiah and God incarnate because that's what our parents told us and that's the story we got from the ...
Clay has just been hired to write a memoir for a demon named Lucian. As he begins to find eerie similarities between Lucian and himself, Clay reaches a devastating conclusion: He is writing his own
I sent for Niman and Khalkharib, whom I assumed had been wasting in a state of impatient and divine boredom as much as I. But instead of my advisors, one of the steward’s men arrived at my apartment to say they had gone with the king’s brother Nathan to tour the city of Gezer.“Without taking leav...
If that was the case, neither of them ever told me. So he was always the adam to me, which meant only “human”—this man, my mate without a name.The night Adam named me, I dreamed of the serpent, regal as he had been, lovely to the eye. I recalled the daylight upon his wings, the iridescence of the...
Everywhere we turned, it seemed the true crop of Galilee was neither wheat nor barley nor even the grapes of the northern heights, but hunger and discontent, the burden of Rome's taxes seeding the soil like salt. "I only hope you're not bitterly disappointed," Simon said. The words came out of hi...
Luka murmurs against my hair. We’ve called the others, who ended up abandoning the car in the traffic jam, which Jester’s convinced was orchestrated, and told them to meet us in Zurich in two days.“The good news is that the cameras at the vault don’t record video, in order to keep it anonymous,” ...