Tom Allen has been a writer and journalist for 30 years and a regular contributor to the Faith & Values column of the Richmond Times-Dispatch for the last five. He has served as the editor of the Virginia Journal of Education since 1990. His columns have appeared in newspapers and magazines across Virginia and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He’s carved out such a niche here at the Richmond Times-Dispatch as a frequent contributor to our Faith & Values and In My Shoes columns, and even occasionally to our op-ed pages. Now, he has taken it a step further by compiling many of those columns into his first book, “Grace Happens: Adventures in Everyday Living.”