Michael Pendergast is a retired B-52 aircraft commander and acquisition engineer, as well as a former instructor of philosophy at a well-known Mid-western Christian university where he taught logic...view moreMichael Pendergast is a retired B-52 aircraft commander and acquisition engineer, as well as a former instructor of philosophy at a well-known Mid-western Christian university where he taught logic, introductory philosophy, and ethics. A philosopher and theologian, Major Pendergast holds degrees in engineering physics (including a minor in astrophysics), administration, international affairs, and philosophy. Widowed with three grown children, and now remarried, this graduate of Cornell University, Siena College, and the USAF Air War University lives and works in northern Maine, where he devotes much of his time to research and writing. The method to his research and writing is to establish a gestalt to understand the whole rather than merely parts (as an example, that science, philosophy, and theology are ultimately one), with the goal of finding the real meaning of life. His prior works include academic texts in philosophy (The Philosophy of the Human Soul and The Philosophy of Love) and theology (Lord of the Impossible) as well as science fiction and fantasy (The Beginning of the Beginning).view less