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The Carpenter's Reckoning
Paperback
Christian FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Robert Walker
Published: Sep 1 2025
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A mysterious stranger arrives in the forgotten corners of America, and nothing will ever be the same.
He appears in a poisoned Louisiana town known as Cancer Alley, at the gates of a for-profit prison, in the organized chaos of an exploitative warehouse, and in the waiting room of a free clinic being crushed by corporate greed. He calls himself Josh. He has a carpenter's hands, a refugee's past, and an unnerving ability to see the wounds people carry.
He offers no sermons, only questions that dismantle empires . He performs no supernatural miracles, yet miracles of human connection and defiance begin to bloom in his wake .
His path intersects with a cast of ordinary people pushed to their breaking point:
- A disillusioned political aide who walks away from power to fight for her community.
- A mother whose son is stolen by the prison-industrial complex, who transforms her grief into a movement.
- A doctor watching his life's work get destroyed by a healthcare system that values profit over patients.
- A family torn apart at the border, igniting an underground network of compassion and resistance.
A Christian nationalist forced to confront the devastating consequences of his beliefs.
Drawn together by this enigmatic carpenter, they become an unlikely fellowship, discovering that the power to fight back is not in violence or political maneuvering, but in stubborn acts of mutual aid. As they build a new underground railroad and challenge the systems designed to crush them, they must answer a revolutionary question: What if the Kingdom of God isn't a promise for the next life, but a project to be built in this one-in the basements, clinics, and courtrooms where ordinary people choose to save each other?
The Carpenter's Reckoning is a gripping and profoundly moving novel for our times-a story of radical hope, defiant love, and the quiet revolution that begins when we discover the power to answer our own prayers has been in our hands all along.
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