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Jeffrey Rasley

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Born

Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, The United States

Website

http://www.jeffreyrasley.com

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https://twitter.com/jeffrasley

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Travel, Religion & Spirituality, Historical Fiction and Thriller

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

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(Author writes under the name Jeff Rasley.)

Jeff Rasley is the author of fourteen 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 pr (Author writes under the name Jeff Rasley.)

Jeff Rasley is the author of fourteen 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 currently serves as a trustee for Earlham College, secretary of the Scientech Foundation, president of the Basa Village Foundation, and as a director for the Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center and 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 150 podcast, radio, and TV shows and has given programs to many service clubs, community organizations, and churches.

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Wandering through rural Indiana

Farmland and Middletown were the destinations for our "wander Indiana to small towns" yesterday. Although similar in some ways, there was a stark contrast between how well the 2 towns are doing. They are only about 20 miles apart in east-central Indiana near Muncie. Middletown's population is 2,253 and Farmland's 1,270. they have both been losing population since 1980 - undoubtedly, victims of the Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.78 · 149 ratings · 47 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal 3.46 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2010 — 10 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 4.27 avg rating — 11 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 — 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
	Anarchist, Republican... Assassin it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Island Adventures: Disconnecting in the Caribbean and South Pacific 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 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 4.33 avg rating — 6 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
	Pilgrimage: Sturgis to Wounded Knee and Back Home Again, a Memoir really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	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) 3.14 avg rating — 7 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
	America’s Existential Crisis: Our Inherited Obligation to Native Nations 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Polarized! The Case for Civility in the Time of Trump: An experiment in civil discourse on Facebook 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2017 — 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

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Jeffrey Rasley liked Bob Henry's review of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them: "Just maybe one of the most important books I have read on Indiana history. This is a well researched, and a well told story of the reign and demise of D.C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the KKK and the ghost of a woman, Madge Oberholtzer, who took him " Read more of this review »
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Jeffrey Rasley rated a book it was amazing Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver	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
If reading about the miserable life of a poverty-stricken redneck living in Oxy country sounds appealing, then this is the book for you. You can skip the middle third of the book and, instead, watch "Sid and Nancy" - same horrifying scenes of drug ad ...more
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Jeffrey Rasley and 1 other person liked Jolynn Hamelman's review of Lessons in Chemistry: "Lessons in Chemistry I was born in 1960, and my mother was a scientist. She got her Masters in Biochemistry and her PhD in Food and Nutrition, while having 8 children, so I enjoyed that aspect of this book. A woman trying to make it in a man's world. " Read more of this review »
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Maggie describes how the Kopila Valley Children’s Home became her home, and how her efforts led to the creation of the BlinkNow Foundation. But what is most important about her story is the involvement of the local people in Nepal, who became her fri ...more
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Gilman is a find story-teller, and his characters are brought to life, including the secondary ones. He has a talent for, and delights in, describing the gory details of bloody murders, torture scenes, battles, and individual combat. If you don't car ...more
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Jeffrey Rasley and 1 other person liked Erin Poston's review of Demon Copperhead: "4.5 stars. This lives up to the hype. Heartbreaking and beautifully written. Incredible storytelling. It’s long, but I was always itching to get back to the book - it was so engaging. “Anybody will tell you the born of this world are marked from the g" Read more of this review »
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Jeffrey Rasley rated a book it was amazing Beowulf by Unknown	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
It's Beowulf, so of course it gets 5 stars, even though it is outrageously bloody and contravenes contemporary moral codes. I recently reread the Old English epic for our UChicago Indy Book Club. It was fun to re-experience this cultural classic with ...more
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This is a delightful little tale that leaves the reader wanting more. It reads like a middle-English epic tinged with magical realism, Beowulf edited by Marquez. Come on, Mr. Edwards, finish the tale.
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Jeffrey Rasley and 5 other people liked Curtis's review of The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914: "It’s no wonder so few people know much about the Great War - it defies simplification. But the effort to understand it better is rewarded here. Given the complexity of the subject matter, this is an extremely engaging, thoroughly researched and well-" Read more of this review »
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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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“curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere”
― jeff rasley

tags: stars, van-gogh

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“He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.”
― Jeffrey Rasley, Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal