J. Edward is a middle-class husband, father, and grandfather living in the Midwest, where he works as an aviation technician. Raised in a church-going Christian home and educated in private Christian schools through junior high, he carried a familiar, casual faith for most of his life — believing in God without ever seriously studying the book that claims to reveal Him.

That changed in midlife. Being “born again” in 2005, J. Edward began studying the Bible in earnest and talking about it with family and friends — only to discover how far the secular world’s view of Scripture had drifted from his own, and from the Bible itself. After years of hearing the same objections raised again and again, he became convinced that someone needed to answer them plainly.

He has no college degree and no formal biblical education. What he had was an NIV Bible, a church, a personal computer, and — as he’ll tell you himself — the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Time, Technology, Tolerance, and Truth is the result: his first book, written not as a scholar, but as an ordinary believer who decided the secular case against the Bible deserved a direct, honest answer.