I have spent much of my adult life preaching, teaching, and working with people in churches and communities. Writing grew naturally out of that work.

Some ideas begin in a classroom. Others come from a sermon, a conversation, a disagreement, or a question that refuses to go away.

I write both fiction and nonfiction, and each allows me to explore ideas in a different way.

Nonfiction gives me the opportunity to examine religion, culture, faith, leadership, and the modern church directly. It allows me to study an issue carefully and offer readers another way to think about it.

Fiction gives me more room to explore people. A story can deal with conflict, belief, ambition, loss, or identity without turning the subject into a lecture. Sometimes a character can reveal something about human nature more effectively than an argument can.

I am also the owner of Rebel Rev Press. Starting a publishing company was a natural extension of my work as an author. I wanted to create a place where books and ideas could be developed seriously and brought to readers with care.

Writing is rarely a neat process for me. It usually begins with a rough idea, a stack of questions, and a first draft that is nowhere near finished. Revision is often where I discover what I was actually trying to say.

I do not write because I believe I have reached the final answer on a subject. I write because I am still working through it.

That is one of the things I appreciate most about books. They allow a conversation to continue across distance and time. A reader can discover an idea years after it was written and respond to it from a completely different place.

Whether I am writing fiction or nonfiction, I want the work to feel honest, worthwhile, and respectful of the reader’s time.