The author has written twenty books on church and ministry and the intersection of religion and politics and a first novel, "A Brother's Peace," also from Sunstone Press. He also writes a popular blog entitled, "Thinking Against The Grain." (linnposts.com) His extensive ministry experience includes being a congregational pastor, a college chaplain, and a tenured seminary professor before giving up academic life, throwing caution to the wind, and moving to Minnesota to become co-pastor of a new church with his wife, Joy. Today he writes full-time.