Sj Matthews: 2 books

Hannah Strong struggles to keep her marriage intact while dealing with her alcoholic father. Her marriage is on the verge of collapse and her father cannot stay sober. Both issues may impact her plan to attend the equestrian competition of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. This short story leads into a full-length novel that will be published in 2014.

Makes accessible some of the best modern scholarship on encountering Jesus in the Scriptures. With a focus wider than the historians quest, these essays try to explain not only who Jesus was in the first century but also what he might mean in the twenty-first century.