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.
Andrew is Director of Collective Impact at the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), working on collective impact initiatives to reduce embodied carbon emissions across built environments, including building materials, design, construction, and retrofits. He created and continues to host CLF's NGO/Government Roundtable on Embodied Carbon, explores and connects opportunities for collective action to reduce embodied carbon through design, procurement, materials innovation, and policy, and supports the development and utilization of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and decarbonization research. He supported CLF's Challenge launching the SE 2050 Commitment (for structural engineers) and CLF's Challenge launching the MEP 2040 Commitment (for building system design firms). He was a founding member of the MEP 2040 Commitment steering committee (focused on decarbonizing building systems) and continues as a member of the MEP 2040 advisory committee. In 2018, he was organizer and coordinator of Carbon Smart Building Day, a conference of the Global Climate Action Summit focused on decarbonizing the global building industry. He has keynoted these conferences: Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), Architectural Engineering Institute, PassiveHouse NW, American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA), California Construction & Industrial Materials Association (CalCIMA), Chinese American Construction Professionals (CACP), World Conference on Human Values (Mexico), South Asian Cities Conference (Karachi, Pakistan). In 1987 Himes was founding editor of MacTech, the leading Apple technology journal, then co-founded the Microsoft Developer Network and led the first web development project at Microsoft in the early 90s. Himes was co-founder and director of Poets Against the War in 2003. Himes was founding executive director for Charter for Compassion International in the 2000s,
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.