Phillip Michael Garner is a poet and writer who has served as a pastor, a missionary, and a professor. Mike lives with a nonviolent community of missional development workers in Nashville, Tennessee, known under the corporate name of Global Outreach Developments International. He has earned MDiv, MAR, and DMin degrees from Azusa Pacific University. His passion is thinking theologically about everything and enlightening people to the wonders of scripture beyond the boundaries of common thought.