They started out as average, unexceptional men of their time. Fishermen, farmers, local magistrates. But their dedication to a prophetic Jewish preacher in the backwaters of the Roman Empire transformed them into revolutionaries and, in the process, changed the world itself in ways that would reverberate across time for two thousand years. Now, discover the extraordinary, untold stories of the men chosen by Jesus to bring God’s plan to the world. Among them: Peter, the rock upon which Christ would build His new religion; James and John, the fiery-tempered “sons of thunder”; Matthew, the tax collector later murdered by cannibals; Simon the Zealot, the anti-Roman fanatic eventually “cut to pieces” preaching in Spain; and Judas Iscariot, whose betrayal would be paid for with silver and suicide.
Dec 1999
Many prophets who authored the Tanakh of the Jews prophesied about the fate of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
Dec 2005
Traces the history of stigmata from St. Francis of Assissi to Padre Pio while exploring alternative explanations for the phenomenon such as the power of the mind to create physical wounds.
Jan 2008
