J. Brent Bill

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J. Brent Bill (born 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American author who now lives in Mooresville, Indiana.

He is a graduate of Wilmington College and Earlham School of Religion. He is a recorded minister in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Ploughshares Farm, where he and his wife Nancy live, is slightly over 40 acres of former farmland being reclaimed into prairie and native Indiana hardwoods as a wildlife preserve.

Bill is the executive vice president of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations in Indiana. He has been a local church pastor in Indiana and Ohio, as well as an adjunct professor at Earlham School of Religion in Indiana. He has written numerous books, short stories, and magazine articles. He also works as a writing coach.

[edit] Works

• Sacred Compass: The Path of Spiritual Discernment
• Mind the Light: Learning to See with Spiritual Eyes
• Imagination and Spirit: A Contemporary Quaker Reader ISBN 0-944350-61-5
• Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality ISBN 1-55725-420-6

[edit] External links

• Bill's Website
• Bill's Blog