About the Author

James Watkins is the author of sixteen books including Death & Beyond, which won a Campus Life Book of the Year award, and The Why Files series, which was honored with a Christian Retailer s Choice award. He serves as associate acquisitions editor at Wesleyan Publishing House (Indianapolis) and has won four Evangelical Press Association awards for editing. He is a graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University with a BA in Theology and his graduate work is in communications at Ball State University and Purdue University. Thomas a Kempis has been a best-selling author for more than five hundred years. He was a priest, monk, and writer who lived in obscurity in 14th Century Germany. His words have changed lives for over 500 years.