Bio

Friar Ted Klein holds a B.A. in Political Science, a M.S. in Counseling, ordination in World Christianship Ministries, and has produced the independent spiritual romantic melodramatic film "The Living Years". He also works in retail sales.

He is not a real "Friar" (ordained monk in the Catholic tradition) but he does play one on the Internet.

Actively Christian since age 13 in 1975, Ted was raised Christmas & Easter Catholic until age 8, when his family started attending the Christian & Missionary Alliance Church in which he grew in his own faith in Christ. He has also been involved in interchurch Charismatic ministry, a Manifest Sonship group, The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima, the John Birch Society & various Christian conservative organizations.

However, he had maintained consistent membership in his local (Southern Indiana) Assembly of God since 1984.

In spite of his theological gallivanting, Friar Ted insists he is not a flake, though he acknowledged that he is a Pisces, which is pretty much the same thing.

His patron saint is C.S. "Jack" Lewis, author of the Narnia series, "Mere Christianity", "The Great Divorce", "Till We Have Faces" and much more. He has a nostalgic appreciation of Hal Lindsey, whose 1970s books, starting with "The Late Great Planet Earth" jumpstarted his Christian commitment, though his End-Times-Prophecy views are 90% historic Premillenialist, 5% Rapturist, 5% Preterist Postmillenialist. The Revelation is his favorite book of The Bible.

Other favorite authors include libertarian thinker Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem), Catholic conspiracy-buff Taylor Caldwell (Dear and Glorious Physician, Captains and the Kings), southern Catholic existentialist Walker Percy (Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming), Bram Stoker (Dracula) and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein).

Favorite movies overall are- It's A Wonderful Life, The Bride of Frankenstein, A Clockwork Orange.