Mike Hamel

Mike Hamel (born 1952) is an American children's author, nationally published journalist, philosopher, and former theologian. He is best known for his two YA novel series (Matterhorn the Brave and The Lighthouse Company), the seminal Entrepreneur's Creed, published by Broadman & Holman, which spotlights notable executives, including Jerry Colangelo (former owner of the Phoenix Suns, Arizona Diamondbacks), and Presidential candidate (and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza), Herman Cain. Hamel's sundry articles on cancer research, litigation, and financial matters, such as real estate loans, mortgages and credit consolidation, have been published in magazines and newspapers.

Over the past thirty years, Hamel has penned hundreds of articles on secular and religious themes. His articles have appeared in national magazines, including James Dobson's Focus on the Family.

Hamel has also researched and written scientific articles, ranging in topics from Big Pharma to surviving cancer for such notable organizations as the Institute for Justice, which litigates liberty issues in the nation’s highest courts. Hamel was himself an IJ plaintiff in a case that was won in Federal Court.

Hamel has contributed to Religion at the Margins and the internationally distributed Solutions Journal and has reviewed books, spanning subjects from religion to neuroscience.

Hamel is a multi-time cancer survivor, having gone through two bone marrow transplants and multiple other treatments to fight lymphoma. He wrote about his experience in a seminal book that explores his journey from diagnosis to treatment to surviving, called Stumbling Toward Heaven. Hamel also produced a video series about his cancer journey in order to demystify the experience of cancer treatment.

In recommending Hamel's book, We Will Be Landing Shortly: Now What?, nationally-renowned author and speaker, Brian D. McLaren, who was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the most influential evangelical leaders in the U.S. said, “I trust Mike Hamel's questions more than I trust most people’s answers. I also trust his wisdom… a treasure which nobody gains without pain and struggle. It is a rare gift to enter into the thoughts of a good and wise man who faces something daily we all must face someday.”

In We Will Be Landing Shortly: Now What? Hamel also explained how he turned the bedtime stories he had told his four children into Young Adult (YA) novels. He completed the decade-long effort, resulting in a YA novel series called Matterhorn the Brave, which was published in 2006 by Living Ink Books, an imprint of AMG Publishers. Each book in the series is set in a different location and time period and features a supporting cast of diverse characters, modeled after his own children. Matterhorn the Brave features four adolescents (ages 12–14) who are recruited by the Praetorians of First Realm — a mirror world of Earth — to keep an eye on the development of civilization. To do this, they time-travel through portals and physically mature to adulthood in the process. When heretics murder the king of First Realm, his daughter, Queen Bea, enlists the kids’ help to recover some of the Ten Talis hidden on Earth. The Talis were fashioned by The Maker as tangible symbols of his power. The heretics need these sacred objects for their scheme of taking over the Earth by rewriting its history.

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