In this guest sermon, Tim Connor will read from his latest book, Beautiful Wounds, and discuss his journey through grief, and the healing powers of nature and time.  

Biography:  Tim is a writer, photographer, and national award winning journalist based in Spokane, WA.  He has written for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Portland Oregonian, Politics, and the Seattle Weekly, among other publications.  He has been awarded three Sigma Delta Chi first place national awards for investigative reporting and was honored in 2011 with the Excellence in Legal Journalism Award by the Washington State Bar Association.  He has testified before both houses of Congress and presented before the National Institute of Medicine and National Commission on Radiological Protections and Standards.  Prior to Beautiful Wounds, his most recent book, with Margaret Witt is Tell: Love, Defiance and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point of Gay Rights.