The Time Portal II

Newly widowed Lisa Thackeray is just finishing her chaplaincy stint at an Army outpost in Iraq when a dead soldier’s iPod comes into her possession. It’s a mind-bending discovery when she realizes the anonymous toy lets her escape to the past by a week and bet on NFL games that have already happened. She can prevent suicide bombings. She can rescue fallen comrades. What’s going on here anyway? Finally back in the U.S. and about to fall in love again, Lisa begins civilian life as a Wisconsin pastor soon drafted to take the requisite four time-travel trips to the distant past: including more Army action as she jets back to the year 1944 and visits Sword Beach for World War II and D-Day. Also opening up to her is a front-row seat for Martin Luther’s Reformation-launching speech: “Here I stand; I cannot and will not recant. God help me.” The divine detours offer her the ability to understand the gutsy miracles God expects the Body of Christ to perform in a dying world. David B. Smith is re