Brian Stiller

Dad was a minister in Saskatchewan, Canada and mom was strong, loving, and no-nonsense. The 1950s was the perfect time for a boy, with two brothers and two sisters, to grow up. Little money, we were rich. Constrained by a Pentecostal community, there seemed few boundaries. Music ranged from Glen Gould to Johnny Cash: Entertainment from high school sports to Youth for Christ rallies. Farmers ruled, John Diefenbaker was Prime Minister and medical socialism became our most prized policy. After graduating from our denominational school, I married my college sweetheart and Lily and I set off for Toronto, for university. Reading, preaching, writing and leading became cores around which life centered. I got into writing while working with youth - "A Generation Under Siege." A publisher picked it up, and taught me how to write. It got into my blood and over the coming years I worked with a few genres: the first evolved from working with government and serving as president for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. Then Don Loney, editor at Harper Collins, after publishing "From the Tower of Babel to Parliament Hill" pressed me into a couple of titles I had not considered. So to work I got and wrote, "When Life Hurts" and "What Happens When I Die?" After writing semi-weekly blurbs called Issachar Note (see I Chronicles 12:32) they were published in "You Never Know What You Have 'till You Give It Away," a rather long but defining title. The latest is on leadership, which has been my vocational calling - "Find a Broken Wall -- 7 ancient principles for 21st century leaders"