James Harleman has hosted events and taught for over a decade in Seattle at one of the fastest growing churches in America where he started their "Film and Theology" program. He manages the website cinemagogue.com and just published his first book. As an ordained minister, James travels and lectures on cinema and spirituality, as well as speaking on a wide variety of cultural and theological topics. He's contributed articles and reviews to The Resurgence and Hollywood Jesus websites, written for Collide Magazine and also made the Kessel Run in less than eleven parsecs. James enjoys watching movies with his geek wife Kathryn who shares his passion for cosplay, sci-fi, horror movies, and comic books. They're presently working to publish several short stories and a series of novels. He is also part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take him away.