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 1995, after four years of hectic drama ministry, I fell into a deep depression. It would take two years of counseling to get back to normal. Out of that experience, God led me to develop LifeFilters, small cards that when carried around in my pocket, kept me from falling back into depression. These cards had Bible verses and notes of encouragement I had developed for myself during my years of counseling. Mark Sutton surprised me one day when he confessed he also suffered from severe depression. He asked me to help him write a book for Christians suffering from depression. Out of that collaboration came “Conquering Depression: A Thirty Plan to Finding Happiness” published by Broadman and Holman (Now B&H Publishing) in February, 2001.

I continued to function as drama minister and expanded my responsibilities into short film production. But, my love for writing never waned. I have waited patiently for God to open the door for me to move into a new direction with my writing. It has taken all these years for God to move me in a new direction, but I am no longer the drama minister at Brookwood. I have been asked to move into a more creative role. This has freed me to finally pursue the dream that drove me to chase dinosaurs through my “jungle” pasture at age 11 or to pilot my starship to an alien world filled with mutant cows and sentient corn stalks.

For 2007, I have 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. Now, I am working on creative script writing for our worship service production team, writing novels for 613media, and 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 graphic artist. 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!