Jim Farrell – författare

Phil discovers that Kate, the voice in his Garmin GPS, is a lot more than a disembodied voice. Shes in trouble, and she needs his help!When a couple arrives from cold Rhode Island to their rented condo in Florida, all they can think about is warm temperatures and sunshine. But then the husband walks into a moral dilemma that almost ruins his week in the sun.Betsy decides to memorialize her deceased parents.in a most unusual way.Young, innocent Cheryl shocks her mother by opening the conversation at the familys Sunday dinner with I almost got involved in a bar fight yesterday.Larry Hawkins is a widower, MIT physics professor, and believer in time travel who is anxious to test his inventions and fulfill every old mans fantasy.Roberto Villarreal has no idea a life-changing adventure is about to begin when he picks up a stranger and his granddaughter at a rest stop in Mexico.Mark Tuttle and Sandy Roberts wonder if you can love all your children equally and yet love one more than the others. In the process they discover that Love is infinite.Kiss Me, Kate and Other Stories is a collection of short tales set in a variety of locations and illustrating the depth of the human spirit, the importance of laughter, and the miracle of love.

When Mikey ORourke, a precocious eighth-grader, reads a Facebook post by his Uncle Billy, hes shocked. After all, his family is Catholic. Hes even more surprised when his father tells him all his unclesBilly, Ray, and Alare atheists. Mikey doesnt know how to handle this newfound information.

In his novel Mikeys Quest for Father God, author Jim Farrell tells how Mikey leaves behind his shock and surprise to learn why people have such different beliefs about the existenceor nonexistenceof God. As a temporary reporter for the News-Journal, Mikey sets out to interview believers and nonbelievers to discover why they do or do not believe in God. Among those he interviews are his parents, a rabbi friend of his fathers, his grandmother, a Korean exchange student, and a young woman who lost her faith.

Mikeys Quest for Father God explores traditional Thomistic arguments for Gods existence, Maimonidess famous question, Why is there something and not nothing?, Pascals Wager, Anselms ontological argument, the problem of evil, the Holocaust, the civil rights movement in St. Augustine, the closed box of science, saints, martyrs, pedophile priests, and same-sex couples. You will love following Mikey to his conclusion.