The Kairos Paperback - 2014

Paul Hartman is a retired PBS and NPR broadcast executive and on-air personality, having served stations in Alaska, Missouri, Kentucky, New York, and Washington State for 25 years. His career also included teaching (all levels from elementary to college), lay preaching (on the gift of generosity at more than 40 congregations around the United States) and fund-raising (for colleges and congregations). He was raised Lutheran and has been an ordained Presbyterian elder for over twenty years. Born in Oregon and raised in "the left-coast Washington," Paul has a 1967 cum laude B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, and an M.A. in Radio-Television-Film from San Diego State University. He was named one of Pacific Lutheran's 100 Centennial Alumni, and appointed Master of Ceremonies for the Centennial Banquet. Career highlights include a four-year presidency of the Washington State Public Broadcasting Association, and membership on the Executive Committee of the Pacific Mountain Network. Paul has three adult children, two grands, and a husband. He feels blessed to have a deep and lifelong Christian faith in the progressive tradition. Paul's suspense novel The Kairos (a Greek word for the amazing moments when God appears in human history) involves nuanced characters struggling with timely best-seller topics: the Dead Sea Scrolls, the historical Jesus, homosexuality and religion. The story's theme, however, is timeless: how our innate human reaction to the unknown-fear-is answered in the powerful first words of biblical moments when a divine figure breaks into our time: "Fear not."