Remembering Jesus

John Leax gives voice to a cast of people who lived in the first century, some historical and some invented, who look back on their meetings with Jesus, often from old age. Each speaker weighs what those encounters meant. A few come to recognize him as the Messiah, others regard him as a remarkable man they cannot quite explain, and a handful are so angered by him that they refuse any obligation his presence might place on them.

The book is built from dramatic monologues interspersed with songs. Readers can take it straight through as a poetry collection, or follow it as a set of meditations, one per day, through the Lenten season, tracing Jesus's ministry from beginning to end.