R. W. Holmen is a former trial attorney with an eye for history and a heart for social justice. A Wretched Man remembers Paul the Apostle, and Wormwood and Gall (a Midwest Book Award finalist) fictionalizes Mark, the author of the first gospel. Queer Clergy (a Minnesota Book Award finalist) recounts the struggle for queer Christians to be fully included in the life of the church. Lost in the Land of Milk and Honey tells the tale of a turn-of-the-century Swedish immigrant to Minnesota as he struggles to realize his American dream. The Point Man and the Peacenik captures the tumult of 1968 against the backdrop of war, assassinations, political upheaval, and rise of hippie counterculture.