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Release: June 2026
paperback, 240 pages
What does it mean to go under and come back up?
John the Baptist made immersion his life's work. He called sinners into the Jordan and pushed them beneath the surface, trusting that what rose would be different from what went down. Repentance. Transformation. New life emerging from the water like creation emerging from chaos.
But immersion takes many forms.
Immersed in the wilderness for fifteen years, learning to hear God in the silence. Immersed in his calling, burning with a fire he didn't choose and couldn't extinguish. Immersed in the crowds at the Jordan, baptizing until his arms ached and his voice gave out. Immersed in certainty the day he saw heaven open and heard God's voice declare Jesus his beloved Son.
And now, in a dungeon beneath Herod's fortress, immersed in darkness and doubt.
Immersed tells the story of John's final months—not as tragedy but as the deepest baptism of all. In the silence of his cell, John confronts his hardest questions, sends his most costly message to Jesus, and discovers that going down has always been the beginning. That faith can survive without feeling. That the friend of the bridegroom can rejoice even from a prison cell.
This is a novel about a man who spent his life transforming others and then had to be transformed himself. About the cost of pointing away from yourself. About the strange joy of decreasing. About what happens when the one who immersed thousands finally surrenders to being fully, completely, irreversibly immersed in the will of God.
Go down. Come up different. This is how it has always worked.
Release: June 2026
paperback, 240 pages
What does it mean to go under and come back up?
John the Baptist made immersion his life's work. He called sinners into the Jordan and pushed them beneath the surface, trusting that what rose would be different from what went down. Repentance. Transformation. New life emerging from the water like creation emerging from chaos.
But immersion takes many forms.
Immersed in the wilderness for fifteen years, learning to hear God in the silence. Immersed in his calling, burning with a fire he didn't choose and couldn't extinguish. Immersed in the crowds at the Jordan, baptizing until his arms ached and his voice gave out. Immersed in certainty the day he saw heaven open and heard God's voice declare Jesus his beloved Son.
And now, in a dungeon beneath Herod's fortress, immersed in darkness and doubt.
Immersed tells the story of John's final months—not as tragedy but as the deepest baptism of all. In the silence of his cell, John confronts his hardest questions, sends his most costly message to Jesus, and discovers that going down has always been the beginning. That faith can survive without feeling. That the friend of the bridegroom can rejoice even from a prison cell.
This is a novel about a man who spent his life transforming others and then had to be transformed himself. About the cost of pointing away from yourself. About the strange joy of decreasing. About what happens when the one who immersed thousands finally surrenders to being fully, completely, irreversibly immersed in the will of God.
Go down. Come up different. This is how it has always worked.
