Steve Beard spends most of his time writing, speaking, and scratching his head about pop culture and spirituality. He is the creator of Thunderstruck.org. His writing and interviews often appear in Good News, Risen, National Review Online, and BreakPoint.com.

His articles have also appeared in Challenge, Charisma, Discipleship Journal, The Jessamine Journal, The Washington Times, and World magazines, as well as popular websites such as The Phantom Tollbooth (tollbooth.org), Spirituality.com, Beliefnet.com, RockRebel.com, Ginkworld.net, RelevantMagazine.com, and Next-Wave.org.

He is a contributing author to Spiritual Journeys: How Faith Has Influenced Twelve Music Icons (Relevant, 2003) where he wrote chapters on Bono, Johnny Cash, and Al Green. Beard also wrote the forward to Steve Stockman's book, Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 (Relevant Books, 2001).

In the last few years, his professional travels have led him to England, India, Argentina, Brazil, Singapore, Malaysia, and Cuba

Prior to moving to Kentucky's bluegrass country in 1991, he served as research assistant at the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Both institutions are located in Washington, DC.

He is a member of Am Herratz, a fraternity devoted to gluttony, tomfoolery and mad-capped hijinx.

While growing up in southern California, Steve played a big, fat upright bass in a rockabilly/swing band called The Belvederes.

Steve lives outside Lexington, Kentucky with his wife, Michelle, and their son, John Paul, and their dog Murry. You can read an article that Steve wrote for John Paul when he was only four days old. When he was a wee lad, he was featured in one full-length motion picture — Flying Changes — written, directed and produced by our friends Brady and Andrea Nasfell.

Dream dinner companions: Elvis, Mother Teresa, Joey Ramone, Tony Hawk, John Wimber, Martin Luther King Jr., Bono, John Wesley, Ben Stein, John Lee Hooker, Ronald Reagan.
Music: U2, The White Stripes, MxPx, P.O.D., Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Over the Rhine, Bob Dylan, Los Lobos, Maria McKee and Lone Justice, Brian Setzer Orchastra, Eric Clapton, Kasey Chambers & Robert Johnson
Movies I wish I would have made: High Fidelity, Spitfire Grill, Matrix, Braveheart, The Patriot, Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, That Thing You Do, Rushmore.
Boob tube: The Office, CSI, Seinfeld reruns, The Best Damn Sports Show Period, The Monster Garage, VH1's Behind the Music.
Cities: Haleiwa, Hawaii; Toronto; Huntington Beach, California; Singapore, London.
Teams: Oakland Raiders, Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburg Steelers, and the Los Angeles Lakers. Periodicals: Wall Street Journal, Blender, Fast Company, Weekly Standard, Rolling Stone