SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS REGARDING THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: THE RELIGIOUS WORLD OF EIJAH MUHAMMAD AND THE BOOK'S AUTHOR... (I SHOULD ALSO NOTE THAT THE BOOK CAN BE ORDERED THROUGH XULON PRESS, AND IN A FEW DAYS AS AN EBOOK THROUGH AMAZON AND BARNES AND NOBLE.). Curtis J. Tilleraas was ordained in the Old Catholic Church as a deacon and then a priest. Today he is serving as a Lutheran pastor in a beautiful country church, surrounded by corn fields and headstones. He is a former President of ScreenWriters’ Workshop, a former lumber yard worker, creamery worker, taxi cab driver, civil service worker (at several universities and colleges), Grant Writer and Director of Development. His poems have appeared in a number of small, literary magazines; and he also worked as a Script Consultant and Research Interviewer on the documentary, Clouded Land: Land Claims Issues on Minnesota’s White Earth Indian Reservation . While he was in seminary working on his MDIV degree at Luther Semina