The story of

Jac de Gooijer

Not everything begins with a plan.
Some things begin with a question that keeps coming back.

In my case, those were questions about the Bible, about Israel and the church, about history, and about how stories change when they are carried through other cultures. What happens to a Jewish book when it finds itself in a Greek world? What happens to a story when it loses its roots?

These are the questions I explore in essays and articles.

But some stories resist explanation; they need to be told.
That is why I also write novels: stories about fathers and sons, about choices, loss, and return.
Because in the end, most stories are about the same thing: About people who leave, who lose their way, and who discover somewhere along the road that returning may be the hardest journey,  and at the same time, the most necessary one.