Author Bio
Caleb Grimes’ faith journey has paralleled the SW films in many ways. He came to Christ the same month Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was released to theaters – his family saw it at a drive-in in southern California. Caleb’s ‘Dagobah experiences,’ that of having Christian masters teach him, occurred in the study centers, books and seminars of L’Abri (started by Francis Schaeffer), then at Wheaton College. He attends churches that have balanced the mind of Christ (good theology) with the ‘flowing’ of the Holy Spirit (charisma) – which is very much the well-rounded nature of Star Wars spirituality. He met his wife because of their mutual love of seeing Jesus in Star Wars. Ironically, they 
fell in love and were married in 2001, the same year that Episode II came out, in which Anakin and Padme fell in love and were married! Finally, in 2005, Caleb and family decided to escape “the Empire” (DC Metro area) and pursue his writing career and his wife’s painting career by moving to a remote town in Virginia; very similar to Obi-Wan’s exile at the end of Episode III, which came out that same year.
As a generation X-er, Caleb Grimes comes from the perspective that the appreciation of and search for meaning in pop culture is a natural part of life, and something in which the good and bad mix together in a post-Christian environment. Instead of being daunted by this, he is invigorated and sees opportunities to rightly understand the value and the pitfalls in the philosophies present in movies, songs, books… and of course Star Wars in particular. Because his life has always had one foot in the Christian world and one in the ‘outside’ world he has always been involved with church, but never solely defined by it. In a similar vein, he loves Star Wars, but is not possessed by it. Caleb Grimes is primarily a fiction writer, so he views Christian apologetics through the truth of stories instead of philosophy and theology by themselves. For him, then, learning about a life of faith is to visualize it through the metaphors of Star Wars.
