Our First Ten Days: A Novel about the Birth of Christian Faith

First: Time with Jesus -- Then: He was gone -- Now: "Terry, wait!" "Why are we here?" asked my mother's brother, moving from the philosophical to the practical. "We are here," replied one of the followers, "because he said that we should wait." There was then an outbreak of questions... For 40 days, the risen Christ had remained among his disciples, and then, leaving them, he gave instruction that they wait together in Jerusalem. "Wait," he said, but why? The word was an enigma; what had Je...