Jerry Michael Grimes is a former candidate for U.S. Congress in North Carolina's First Congressional District, filmmaker, ordained Baptist minister, author, college lecturer and entrepreneur. He holds an undergraduate degree from Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, North Carolina with graduate degrees from Virginia Union University, Fuller Theological Seminary, Union Presbyterian Seminary and a doctorate from Liberty University. As both the producer of films such as Death of a Preacher and a university lecturer in the disciplines of religion, theology and philosophy, he continues pushing the boundaries of freethinking, political action and nontraditional approaches to education.