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Jeffrey Rasley

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Born

Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, The United States

Website

http://www.jeffreyrasley.com

Twitter

https://twitter.com/jeffrasley

Genre

Travel, Religion & Spirituality, Historical Fiction and Thriller

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Marcel Proust, Fyodor Mihayloviç Dostoyevski, Leo Tolstoy, David Foste ...more

Member Since

October 2010

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(Author writes under the name Jeff Rasley)

Jeff Rasley is the author of sixteen books and over 80 feature articles, which have been published in numerous academic and mainstream periodicals, including Newsweek, Chicago Magazine, ABA Journal, Family Law Review, Faith & Fitness Magazine, Friends Journal, Journal of Communal Societies, and Real Travel Adventures International Magazine. He is an award-winning photographer and his pictures taken in the Himalayas and Caribbean and Pacific islands have been published in several journals.

Rasley has engaged in social activism and philanthropic efforts from an early age. In high school he co-founded the Goshen Walk for Hunger. In law school he was an advocate for renters' rights as a lobbyist and pre (Author writes under the name Jeff Rasley)

Jeff Rasley is the author of sixteen books and over 80 feature articles, which have been published in numerous academic and mainstream periodicals, including Newsweek, Chicago Magazine, ABA Journal, Family Law Review, Faith & Fitness Magazine, Friends Journal, Journal of Communal Societies, and Real Travel Adventures International Magazine. He is an award-winning photographer and his pictures taken in the Himalayas and Caribbean and Pacific islands have been published in several journals.

Rasley has engaged in social activism and philanthropic efforts from an early age. In high school he co-founded the Goshen Walk for Hunger. In law school he was an advocate for renters' rights as a lobbyist and president of the Indianapolis Tenants Association. He is the founder of the Basa Village Foundation, past president of the Indianapolis Scientech Club and University of Chicago Indy Alumni Club. He served as a trustee for Earlham College, and is the president of the Scientech Foundation of Indiana and of the Basa Village Foundation. He is a director of the Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center and served as a director of the Indiana Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He is a co-founder of the Jeff & Alicia Rasley Internship Program for the ACLU of Indiana.

Jeff is an avid outdoors-man and recreational athlete. He leads trekking-mountaineering expeditions in Nepal and has solo-kayaked around several Pacific island groups. He also loves to read and considers completing Marcel Proust's 3600 page Remembrance of Things Past as great an adventure as climbing Himalayan peaks and solo-kayaking Pacific islands.

Jeff is U.S. liaison for the Nepal-based Himalayan expedition company, Adventure GeoTreks Ltd. He has taught classes for IUPUI Continuing Ed. Program, Indiana Writers Center, Butler and Marian Universities.

Jeff is a graduate of the University of Chicago, A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, All-Academic All-State Football Team and letter winner in swimming and football; Indiana University School of Law, J.D. cum laude, Moot Court and Indiana Law Review; Christian Theological Seminary, MDiv magna cum laude, co-valedictorian and Faculty Award Scholar. He has been admitted to the Indiana, U.S. District Court, and U.S. Supreme Court Bars.

He was given a Key to the City of Indianapolis for serving as a law school intern to Mayor Hudnut and preparing a report on the safety conditions of all Indy Parks. Rasley has received the Man of the Year award from the Arthur Jordan YMCA and the Alumni Service Award from the University of Chicago.

Rasley has been a featured guest on over 200 podcast, radio, and TV shows and has given programs to many service clubs, community organizations, and churches.

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Nostalgia for the early 1960s

Not to be overly dramatic, but the "Big Ed" story came to me like Proust's madeleine experience. The whole story filled my mind after seeing some kids wrestling around at my local YMCA. Ala Proust, there were gaps in my memory of what happened one day at my grade school in 1965, so imagination was used to create this work of auto-fiction. Back then, the culture war fought out at my small-town Midw Read more of this blog post »

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Jeffrey Rasley’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 179 ratings · 58 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal 3.47 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hitchhiker’s Big Adventure: On the road from Indiana to Key West and New Orleans for Mardi Gras 1972 (Jack Stories Book 3) 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	False Prophet: A Legal Thriller 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Godless-- Living a Valuable Life Beyond Beliefs (Memoirs of a Thoughtful Traveler Book 6) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anarchist, Republican... Assassin (Jack Stories Book 8) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hero's Journey: John Ritter, the Chip Hilton of Goshen, Indiana; a Memoir really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pickleball Soap Opera: Love, Murder, and Pickleball (Jack Ross Series) 3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monsters of the Midway 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island Adventures: Disconnecting in the Caribbean and South Pacific 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal (Himalayas Philanthropy Trekking, 3) 3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jeffrey Rasley rated a book it was amazing The Bull from the Sea (Theseus, #2) by Mary Renault	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as The King Must Die, but it is still well worth reading by those who like historical fiction about legendary/mythical characters. If you know the legends/myths about Theseus--and there are different versions--it ...more
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Jeffrey Rasley rated a book it was amazing The Warden by Anthony Trollope	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Warden, Septimus Harding, is one of Trollope’s most poignant characters. He is accused of unethically profiting off of a Church-run almshouse for elderly men. The accuser is the Warden's daughter's suitor, Dr. John Bold, a zealous local reformer. ...more
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Jeffrey Rasley rated a book it was amazing The Three Clerks (The World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Trollope used his own experience in the British civil service in crafting this story in 1858. The title indicates it is a story about 3 clerks, but it is also the story of the women--three sisters and one unrelated woman--with whom the 3 male clerks ...more
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Jeffrey Rasley rated a book it was amazing The King Must Die (Theseus, #1) by Mary Renault	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I have enjoyed several of Renault's books, including her Alexander trilogy. The first of her two Theseus books was equally enjoyable. She is very clever in the way she takes a legend or myth and puts her own spin on the traditional story. I think the ...more
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Jeffrey Rasley rated a book it was amazing Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It by Daniel Simons	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is an engaging book by two academics, a psych prof and a neuro-scientest about "the art of the steal." It is a lesson in how and why people are taken in by scammers, hucksters, con men, and politicians. They describe the different techniques use ...more
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“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”
― Jeffrey Rasley, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal

tags: biography, expeditions, himalayas, memoir, mountaineering, mountains, nepal, philanthropy, three-cups-of-tea, tibet, trekking

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“Beliefs divide us, values unite us."

from Godless – Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs”
― Jeff Rasley

tags: conduct-of-life-philosophy, conservative-politics, fundamentalism, inspirational, isis, peace, political-gridlock, progressive-politics, purpose-life, religion, self-help, spiritual-journey, spirituality, tea-party

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“too young to live, too old to die”
― Jeff Rasley, Island Adventures: Disconnecting in the Caribbean and South Pacific

tags: adventure-travel, beaches, climbing-mountains, exploring, islands, kayaking, mountaineering, sailing, scuba-diving, travel-writing

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“This case proves we have the best legal system money can buy!"

Justice Betrayed: The Rise & Fall of a Death Penalty Crusader”
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tags: crime-drama, crime-fiction, death-penalty, legal-thriller

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“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”
― Jeffrey Rasley, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal