Ben Cunningham.
Ben is an American, from the Pacific Northwest, baptized at thirteen in a Baptist church in Texas, and living now in a village in Surin province in northeastern Thailand with his wife Ploy and their three sons. He works as a logotherapist in Frankl's broad sense — he coaches people, most of them men, most days; he teaches a meaning curriculum to young men with their fathers present; and for ten years before any of this had a name he taught English as a volunteer in village schools in Isan. He holds no clinical license and says so on every page where it could matter.
His own family calls him "the Baptized Buddhist" — a nickname that started as a joke about how often he was in two places at once, a church one morning and a temple the next, and became the truest short description anyone in the family has found for how he actually thinks. He was married before, and it ended. His three sons are named for three men who freed people, and he will tell you that was not a coincidence.
Before Thailand he spent twenty years in Oregon building businesses that a Viennese psychiatrist could have been describing from the consulting room. He has written about that here, against the list the Buddha gave, and without arguing with the text.
