About Bruce Hennigan

I am at heart a country boy. I grew up in Blanchard, Louisiana on 62 acres of woods and pasture. My childhood was spent in using my imagination to change the world around me into something playful and fun. I guess this led me to the love of storytelling. In high school, I asked God what He wanted me to do with my life and I got the last answer I wanted to hear. I became a doctor. It was a true calling as real as a calling into the ministry and God affirmed that call in the miracles that occurred to get me into college and medical school and to pay my way.

I met Sherry Kidd at Brookwood Baptist Church shortly after I started medical school. We were married in 1980 just as I started my residency in radiology. Throughout my high school, college, and medical school years I wrote without ceasing. I wrote short stories, poems, essays, articles for the school and church
newspapers. In spite of a multitude of rejection letters, I never gave up.

In 1989, I was asked to help write a play and then asked to direct it. I had done neither of these but found a form or writing and creativity that fit me like a glove. In 1992, my pastor, Mark Sutton, asked me to become the drama minister for Brookwood Baptist Church on the condition that everything we performed was original material written by no one else but Bruce Hennigan.

In 2007, I formed 613media as a company to advance my own fiction writing. This grew out of frustration with the conventional process of Christian fiction publishing and the long delays in getting books onto the shelves. My goal was to develop a “track record” by self publishing my books and finding a reliable agent. As of 2009, I am represented by Hidden Value Group of California and we recently signed a contract with Strang Communications, a mainstream Christian publisher to develop the book series, the Jonathan Steel Chronicles. 

Now, I am working with our Children’s Ministry at Brookwood to direct, produce, and adapt scripts for our Kidstuf program. I am now a Volunteer Apologist for Reasons to Believe, a Certified Apologetic Instructor for the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, a “graduate” of the Dynamic Communications Workshop, and a recipient of the Biola University Certificate of Apologetics.

I am developing a curriculum in apologetics for our church members in conjunction with our own local chapter of Reasons to Believe. My wife has patiently picked me up every time I have fallen and has continued to love me and encourage me although she often does not understand this writer’s mind I have. My son, Sean, married Jennifer Attaway in July, 2006 and they are attending University of Texas in Austin graduate school. My daughter, Casey is attending Bossier Parish Community College and aspires to be a veterinary assistant or a forensic technician. Our dog, Romeo, a relatively sedate Jack Russell Terrier currently rules our household. Oh, and I am still a physician practicing in the field of radiology!