Terry EwingTerry was a student-pastor in the United Methodist before turning twenty years old. After serving for fourteen years and gaining a bachelors degree in Psychology and a master's in Divinity, Ewing surrendered his ordination in response to institutiona betrayals and religious abuses practiced in the denomination. Many of his personal experiences as a UMC pastor are incorporated into the book through the Kyle Fedder character, a witness for the prosecution. Terry founded Plumbline Ministries in 1995 and the counseling center has grown steadily. Supported by his wife of forty-four years, the staff of Plumbline Ministries, and dozens of counselees with similar experiences of religious traumas, Terry wrote this novel in hopes of informing UMC members who have been denied knowledge of the institutional abuses, and to encourage every believer to develop a compassionate response to the victims of religious traumas and abuses. Read More Read Less