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Three roads, three soldiers, and the story behind them: notes on the faith, doubt and history woven through Different Roads, Same Direction, for anyone who wants to go a little deeper before or after reading it.
Biblical Fiction Books That Bring Scripture to Life
Stories have always been one of the ways people make sense of faith. Biblical fiction takes that impulse a step further by combining imaginative storytelling with biblical settings, people, events, or…
Inside A Centurion: Three Soldiers, Three Roads, One Destination
An old tracker circles his prey through moonlit ferns, fifty winters into a life of hunting, and he still has not found the answer he is really looking for. Elsewhere, a…
Meet Darrell Smith: From Marine Sergeant to Historical Fiction Author
Some authors build their stories around worlds they have never seen. Others come to writing after a lifetime of varied work. Darrell Smith has a long list of experiences behind him:…
The Soldiers’ History Never Bothered to Name
Every account of the crucifixion mentions the soldiers present. Almost none of them give those soldiers a name. The centurion who confirmed the death. The man who drove the spear. The…
Can Faith Survive a Man Who Needs Proof First?
Not every soldier in Different Roads, Same Direction arrives at faith the same way. Dux, senior centurion of the German auxiliary cavalry, was raised by his grandfather Marcus Aurelius Marcellus on…
A Roman Centurion Meets a Jewish Teacher
Furtis has spent forty years soldiering across the Roman Empire, from Spain to the Rhine to Britain to Africa, and in all that time neither Jupiter nor Mars has ever answered…