Author: Michael Cannon
Located in: Trenton, SC
Submitted: March 27, 2006
Tell us a little about yourself. I am an Army chaplain with some 22 years of
military service. I am also ordained in the
Presbyterian Church in America and have begun to
pastor a Church in Augusta, GA as I transition
from the military back to civilian life.
What was your motivation behind this project? I am not content simply to say that we have a
values problem in America, I am trying to create
tools to help us recapture a virtuous society.
What do you hope folks will gain from this project? Understanding that values are caught rather than
taught, I am hoping to use the ancient tool of a
catechism to communicate virtues in a question
and answer format and then by using several
other tools within the catechism, give the
reader a full exposure to the meaning and the
essence of the virtue being discussed.
Who are your influences, sources of inspiration or favorite authors / artists? I am a big fan of almost anything that Ravi
Zacharius puts on paper. I also read R.C.
Sproul, D.A. Carson, David Wells, and Os
Guinness.
Anything else you'd like readers / listeners to know: This book is best read and then passed on to an
American citizen serving in any branch of the
Armed Forces.
