ABOUT ME
Novels, essays and articles about faith, history, Israel and the church. About stories, roots and return.
Perhaps faith did not begin in Rome, but in Jerusalem.
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 told 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 touch with its roots?
These are the questions I explore in my essays and articles. But some stories cannot be explained — they have 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 journey that returning may be the most difficult — and at the same time the most important — journey of all.
- THE RETURN
- THE VOICE
- THE TABLE
