Chas Smith

Chas Smith grew up deeply enmeshed in the evangelical Christian world that emerged from Southern California in the late 1960s. His family included famous missionaries and megachurch pastors, but his cousin Daniel Courson was Grandma's favourite. Smith looked up to Cousin Danny. He was handsome, adventurous, and smart, earned a degree from Bible college, and settled into a family and...

For readers of Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort, MP: The Life of Michael Peterson by Sean Doherty, and Occy: The Rise and Fall of Mark Occhilupo by Tim Baker. There is an allure about surfers - they look like clean, bronzed athletes who love nature and tread lightly on the earth. But...