Emma Winters

The Gospel of Everyone

Arts & Literature

“Based on Luke's Gospel, the book gives voice to the main players of the Gospel, but it also tells stories from the perspectives of minor characters--people Jesus healed and those who watched his ministry. Totah bases his writing on the imaginative practices of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, and this shows in the richly detailed scenes Totah presents. All those in the narrative, including Jesus, come off feeling fully human. The paralytic, who was lowered before Jesus by his friends, says that this allowed him to see himself as "a man loved, still able to love.”