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Jones Forge Editorial

Return to the God of Scripture

Theology that stays with the text. Fantasy that aims at restoration. Written from the Flint Hills.

Theology titles
6
Hours in Scripture
1,500
Novels with Dugas
4
Wilderlands rating
4.6

Theology · solo · illustrated by Jesse Paasch

Scripture first. Systems last.

Written by Daniel Jones. Cover art and interiors by Jesse Paasch. These are not the Wilderlands books. This is the argument against the golden calf.

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Complete collection

Tearing Down the Golden Calf

Returning to the God of Scripture

Daniel Jones

Illustrated by Jesse Paasch

The complete theology collection — six interconnected works. TULIP, Sola Together, Why We Tortured God to Death, The Divine Raindrop Crisis (Parts 1 & 2), and Our Only Mission. Fifteen hundred hours in the text. One steelmanned walk through Reformed doctrine, then back to the God of Abraham.

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TULIP

Daniel Jones

Illustrated by Jesse Paasch

It began as a marathon debate with a Calvinist best friend. It became 1,500 hours of sermons, confessions, and Scripture. Six contradictions in classic Reformed thought, framed fairly from Westminster and Dort, then tested against the Bible’s if-then covenants.

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Sola Together

Daniel Jones

Illustrated by Jesse Paasch

Tired of clapping at church and leaving hungry? The Five Solas were never solo. They were the invite. From Pharisee feeds to the Groom’s feast table — why “alone” should taste like “with you.”

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Why We Tortured God to Death

From Genesis 15 to the Empty Tomb

Daniel Jones

What if the cross is not the Father hunting a target for His wrath, but a faithful God keeping an ancient promise — even when we drove the nails? Abraham sleeps. God walks the blood path alone. The curse falls on the Promise Keeper.

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Our Only Mission

Revelation’s Call to Finish the Job

Daniel Jones

Illustrated by Jesse Paasch

Revelation is not a secret code. It is the most urgent motivational letter Jesus ever sent His church. The end does not arrive on a hidden calendar. It arrives when the last unreached person has heard, in a way they can answer.

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The Divine Raindrop Crisis

How one question kills the Golden Calf

Daniel Jones

Illustrated by Jesse Paasch

Parts 1 and 2. Can your god add one raindrop to a storm? A direct challenge to the philosophical frameworks that replace the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with a Greek-influenced construct.

Kindle $0.99 · paperback from $5.75

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Epic fantasy · Zachary Dugas first · Jones co-author

A different shelf. With Zachary Dugas.

Dugas is listed first. Jones is co-author. Son of the Wilderlands is a trilogy of its own. Fractured Empire: Helheim is a separate series — guns, rail, and mages, not Yuutan’s woods. None of this is the TULIP work.

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Son of the Wilderlands · Book 1

The Blade’s Own Truth

Zachary Dugas & Daniel Jones

The Wilderlands stay blank on most maps. Monsters made them a perfect place for a legendary swordmaster to disappear and raise a child. For seventeen years Holviti of Yuutan trained Duren in those woods. Then the boy walked out — sword in hand — until he met her.

Kindle $3.99 · Paperback $14.99

4.6 · 1,790 reviews

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Son of the Wilderlands · Book 2

Borne on the Blade

Zachary Dugas & Daniel Jones

Yuutan is the homeland of a living legend, where Tiberasian smiths make master-crafted weapons and guardsmen patrol in armor that gleams like stained glass. Duren came to rest, repair Lisika’s broken sword, and spend time with his new wife. People on the road are disappearing. Something in Yuutan is about to get personal.

Kindle $3.99 · Paperback $14.99

4.6 · 835 reviews

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Son of the Wilderlands · Book 3

Of Quill and Blade

Zachary Dugas & Daniel Jones

Middia is a country of contrasts: desert heat, a city in a cave, people who work by night. Castes divide by birth, not merit. When a conspiracy reaches Khydalaa and Duren’s family, he will do whatever he needs to set it right. Desert sand be damned.

Kindle $4.99 · Paperback $14.99

4.6 · 177 reviews

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Fractured Empire

Fractured Empire: Helheim

Zachary Dugas & Daniel Jones

Mages once stood supreme. The common man has answered with the gun, the rail line, and the Consul. Adrian only wants to go home with Isi and heal from the Kurtz labor camps. Helheim needs her mages. What the empire needs, she ultimately gets.

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4.6 · 106 reviews

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Forthcoming · solo novel · not theology · not Wilderlands

Stone is neither.

Not a Wilderlands book. Not a theology monograph. A solo novel from Wichita, still in manuscript. The Anvil gets it first.

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Solo · in manuscript

Stone

Daniel Jones

A solo novel, not part of the Wilderlands and not a theology book. A king’s best friend returns home to die — and finds healing, community, and the quiet power of a simple garden. In manuscript now.

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Why

Why it is written this way.

Theology stays on its shelf. The novels with Dugas stay on theirs. Both come from the same dirt, the same hours, and the same refusal to trade Scripture for a system.

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Scripture over systems

The charts get a fair hearing, then they sit down in front of the whole Bible.

Long hours in the text before opinions

Fifteen hundred hours in sermons, confessions, and Scripture before I put the argument in print.

The Groom, not the golden calf

Reformed determinism loves from a distance, but the living God still walks the path Himself.

The Commission still stands

Revelation is not a hidden calendar, and the nations are still unreached.

Restoration fantasy, not despair tourism

The novels with Dugas aim at repair, not a tour of how cleverly the world can burn.

Kansas dirt under the boots

Written from construction hours in the Flint Hills, not a faculty lounge.

Editions

Kindle. Print. The Anvil.

Theology on Kindle and in the omnibus hardcover. The Dugas novels on their own Amazon series page. The Anvil is free.

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Theology

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Daniel Jones. Illustrated by Jesse Paasch.

  • TULIP, Sola Together, Our Only Mission
  • Why We Tortured God to Death
  • The Divine Raindrop Crisis, Parts 1 & 2
  • Omnibus hardcover: Tearing Down the Golden Calf · $20
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With Zachary Dugas

Kindle $3.99–$4.99

Co-authored novels. Dugas is listed first. Print from $14.99.

  • Son of the Wilderlands, books 1–3
  • The Blade’s Own Truth · Borne on the Blade · Of Quill and Blade
  • Fractured Empire: Helheim — a separate series
  • 4.6 stars across thousands of reader reviews
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From the field

They closed the system and opened the book.

Composite notes in the voice of people the theology is for. Not reviews of the Wilderlands.

I have sat under TULIP for a decade. Jones did not sneer. He steelmanned it, then walked me back through the if-then covenants I had been taught to skip. I closed the book and opened my Bible.

Micah R.

Tulsa, OK

On TULIP

Our Only Mission cut the charts out of Revelation and handed the church its job back. We stopped arguing about the rapture for a month and talked about the unreached.

James L.

Missouri

On Our Only Mission

Sola Together named the hunger I could not. I was tired of clapping and leaving empty. The Groom’s table is the point. Not the system. Not the feed.

Hannah K.

Wichita, KS

On Sola Together

A writing desk by a farmhouse window, open Bible and fountain pen

From the Flint Hills.

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