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"Hurrying over conflicted streets... I was late for an appointment on a warm spring morning". It could have been anyone, at any time in history saying these words. However, this was no ordinary spring morning. It was the morning of the most important day in Christianity. “And on the Fourth Day” is a fictional story narrated by an “average, non-descriptive” businessman who unexpectedly becomes a witness to the barbaric act that laid the foundation for the Christian faith. Over the three days following Jesus’s crucifixion, the businessman is slowly changed by the events and the people he encounters on his personal faith journey. From a mysterious neighbor who in many ways “seems apart from this world”, but eventually saves the businessman’s life; to a vague “friend” who seems to flourish in the businessman’s melancholy and almost ruins him into damnation. In the end, a near death experience awakens and forges the businessman’s faith with a fire that leads him to confront the “anonymity” of a mob and then save fellow believers. Written in a poetic prose style, the story is full of imaginary and multiple threads that weave together the starts and stops of the businessman’s trials and ultimately his salvation. Almost every verse in “And on the Fourth Day” draws upon scripture and also the author’s personal experiences to form a rich tapestry of language that invites the reader to reread the story many times over. Each time promising to go deeper into its meaning, always asking the reader to consider “What would I have done if I was the businessman?”