Not many know of the travels of the historical figure we now call St. Thomas, who is reputedly the founder of the Christian communities in South India, who is believed to have been martyred and buried there. He is known by other names: Yehuda, brother of Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth, Doubting Thomas, Thoma Didymus (The Twin), and several others, of which I prefer the Syriac "Thoma."
My family traces its origins to this historic individual, but very little is known about the person or the journey of this very human brother of "Jesus Christ." My narratives, in Letters to Cephas, imagine what Thoma's perspective may have been, as a human being who lived, walked, talked, and was forever changed by, the Man from Nazareth.
How many of us could bear that burden, let alone carry it well?
My family traces its origins to this historic individual, but very little is known about the person or the journey of this very human brother of "Jesus Christ." My narratives, in Letters to Cephas, imagine what Thoma's perspective may have been, as a human being who lived, walked, talked, and was forever changed by, the Man from Nazareth.
How many of us could bear that burden, let alone carry it well?