1. The Rebel Jesus - One Thousand Years in a Land with Many Names

You know the end of this story. The rebel goes to the city ruled by the empire’s governor. He attacks bankers. He is arrested. The rich decide he must die. The governor sentences him to the traditional death for rebels, fastened to a stake called a crux in a public place where his suffering will tell passersby what happens to those who defy the empire. How rebels die is a common story.