James Reitman

James Reitman (MD, Washington University; M.A., Dallas Theological Seminary) is a retired Air Force physician, former adjunct professor in hermeneutics at Denver Seminary, and now “hybrid” teaching pastor/doctor for people with “challenged living” at His Urban Presence in Colorado Springs. He edited the Revised Edition of Free Grace Soteriology by David Anderson (2012) and co-authored, also with David Anderson, Portraits of Righteousness, a Free Grace exposition of Romans 5-8 (2013). Jim’s ministry to “the disenfranchised” emerged out of a prolonged period of disillusionment and depression described in his previous exposition of Job and Ecclesiastes, Unlocking Wisdom: Forming Agents of God in the House of Mourning (2008). It is this “dynamic of disillusionment” depicted in the lives of the protagonists in Job and Ecclesiastes that gave Jim “eyes to see” our calling to endure present suffering and disillusionment as righteous image-bearers before the world. This same incentive now fuels his passion for teaching the gospel of the kingdom among those with a background of homelessness, drug addiction, and felony conviction. Jim released an updated Kindle version of *Unlocking Wisdom* in June, 2017.