Mike Kirkwood is a longtime resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado. A graduate of a Jesuit university, he spends his time studying Scripture, teaching Sunday school and Bible study classes, and helping lead a church men’s study group. When not writing, Mike enjoys working out, hiking the Rockies, and building his Rocky Mountain Wildflower Portraits photography portfolio, inspired by John 1:5 (NIV): “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” After a thirty-plus-year career in the restaurant and bar industry, Mike came to Christianity in his early fifties, which allows him to bring a real-world, in-the-trenches perspective to the very real other-world of Christianity. In addition to his first book-length devotional, God Unshackled, Mike has published a dozen Christian-perspective social commentary articles on a secular daily news website that has five million discrete monthly viewers.