Multidisciplinary author, activist, storyteller, collaborator
Andrew Himes is the author of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family, and was executive producer/author of the 2004 documentary Voices in Wartime. He’s Director of Collective Impact for the Carbon Leadership Forum. He recently completed a memoir titled Jesus, Mao, and Me, and is shopping the book to publishers.
The Sword of the Lord
The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family
by Andrew Himes
A clear-eyed yet compassionate history of American Southern fundamentalism over three centuries
A riveting historical assessment as seen through the lens of the author's family experience. The author's grandfather was John R. Rice, founder of the Sword of the Lord newspaper, evangelist, author of scores of books, and mentor to thousands of younger preachers including Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, and Bob Jones, Jr. Several generations of the author's family have embodied the history of fundamentalism through the American Revolution, the struggle over slavery and the Civil War, the South in the wake of that war and the First World War, and throughout the 20th century.
Voices in Wartime
A film. A book. A movement.
“We wanted to make a film that could speak across generations, using poetry from around the world and from 2300 BC to 2003 AD, from poets both living and dead, to explore the trauma and lasting impact of war through the lens of art.” — Andrew Himes
About the Film
The Voices in Wartime documentary was in production from February 2003 — just before the US invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration — until its release in US theaters nationwide in mid-2004. The first footage was shot on February 12, 2003, when grassroots groups of the Poets Against the War movement presented thousands of poems to governments around the world as a protest against the impending US invasion and inevitable deaths, destruction, and trauma resulting from the years of conflict and violence that followed. The completed film included interviews and readings from poets around the world as well as material from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq.
The film was directed by Rick King, produced by Jonathan King, and executive produced by Andrew Himes and Alix Wilber. The accompanying anthology was edited by Andrew Himes and Jan Bultman.