Christianity's Missing Piece

About the Book

About the Author

The journey depicted in this book takes us through passages comic and profound by turn. It shows us the struggle, taking us into the heart of a voyager and, in the process, helping us clarify our own voyage, our own passages, and our own searches for truth. The author, Thomas K. Siemer, in various engineering and management positions, helped develop the jet-carrier-launched Navy A5-C, the first Navy Condor cruise missile, and the first electro-optical and infrared guidance systems for anti-personnel cluster bombs – the weapons that helped kill millions of villagers in Vietnam and Lebanon. He briefly worked on a proposal for the first National Missile Defense project. Siemer depicts with startling candor his two identities in conflict, that of a contracts manager at Rockwell International, one of the largest multinational corporations in the field of nuclear weapons, and that of a believing Christian and practicing Catholic. The pages of his book describe Siemer’s years of spiritual somersaulting as he attempts to being his two identities together. We watch him search his past. We see him in the uniform of a young Naval airman learning to be an officer and a supposed savior of the Western World in Italy. We watch him choose a diametrically opposed life – that of a seminarian. We watch Siemer as he marries, is hired by Rockwell International, and moves up through the corporate ranks. His life was deteriorating. Without alcohol he found it difficult to live with the two identities. His health and conscience in crisis, Siemer leaves Rockwell, and decides to dedicate his life to peace. There is much more to the story.