The Seven Witnesses

Stories of Faith and Fracture in the First Century

Seven voices. One story. The cost of saying yes to the impossible.

In the turbulent decades following the crucifixion, seven witnesses grapple with what they saw, what they lost, and what it meant to follow a man who claimed to be God.

Mary Magdalene, delivered from seven demons, becomes the first to see the impossible: a dead man walking out of his tomb.

Peter, haunted by his denials, struggles to lead a movement when he can barely remember what Jesus taught him.

John, the last apostle standing, writes into his extreme old age, trying to capture love that transcends time itself.

Matthew the tax collector obsessively records testimonies before memory fails and the witnesses die.

Luke the physician documents the weak, stuttering apostle Paul—and discovers that God's power works best through broken vessels.

James, Jesus's own brother who didn't believe until after the resurrection, must reconcile with Paul over what it means to be the church.

Mary, the mother who said yes to an angel at fourteen, watches the sword pierce her soul exactly as prophesied.

These are not sanitized saints. They are traumatized, doubting, failing humans who witnessed something that shattered every category they had for understanding the world. Their stories—told through the lenses of demon possession and deliverance, memory and forgetting, love and grief, precision and chaos, weakness and power, conflict and reconciliation, motherhood and sacrifice—reveal the human cost of the incarnation.

The Seven Witnesses reimagines the Gospel through literary fiction that honors both the historical record and the emotional truth of faith forged in crisis. For readers who want the New Testament's familiar stories told with unflinching honesty, psychological depth, and literary craft.

"Not legends. Not theology. Just seven people trying to make sense of the impossible thing they saw."