Tom Block is an author and artist whose first book, Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity, was published in both English (Fons Vitae, Louisville, KY) and Turkish (Bilim + Gonul, Istanbul, Turkey) in 2010. A Fatal Addiction: War in the Name of God (Algora Publisher, NY), exploring the relationship between religion and violence, was published in 2012. His Response to Machiavelli, an exploration of the American political dynamic, was published this past April (Algora Publisher, NY), and his art/activist manifesto: Prophetic Activist Art: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution, is due out i...