Old Growth

Freelance speechwriter Sid Rafferty signs on to help a neophyte candidate run for election as an alderman in Cumberland, once a booming coal-mining town on Vancouver Island that's now shrunk down to an out-of-the-way little village. But first another writing job makes Sid a witness to a violent death the Mounties are calling murder, then a pair of marijuana-growing brothers want to know what he's doing poking around near their grow-op.

GENESIS IS NOT A STORY. IT IS A RECORD. For centuries, the book of Genesis has been taught as myth, morality tale, or symbolic theology. The Garden of Eden became a children’s story. The Fall became a vague spiritual failure. And the authority structures embedded in the text were quietly ignored. Genesis Unsealed restores Genesis to its original function: a jurisdictional document.