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Ben Pasley was born in Alabama in 1966. He learned to fly fish on still water, catch crawdad on a string, and navigate kudzu without getting the itchies. Later on he earned a BA Degree from Samford University in 1989 a half a semester late because Hebrew was written backwards and he made his second semester Philosophy professor mad.  Nothing of any real consequence happened in his life until he met Robin Weisinger and spent all his money and skills to change her name to Robin Pasley in 1994.  They live together still in Woodland Park, CO with their two boys, Zane and Xander.

Here is a bullet point list of biographical and newsworthy notes:

• In 1993 Ben formed the beginnings of the Blue Renaissance Creative Group, a non-profit organization that fused faith and art to create many tours, albums, literary works, and creative presentations from that day until now.
• From 1994 until 2000 Ben And Robin performed over 125 outreach concerts a year as the band, 100 Portraits which was Ben and Robin’s first musical identity...and focused on state university campus touring in the 1990's.
• Enter The Worship Circle, a worship music series, is one of their most well known musical products, and was first released in 1999 because Ben and Robin wanted to create a worship album for university student culture.
• From 2000 to 2005 Ben worked to train hundreds of artists and pioneeers some of whom moved to Colorado Springs for something that was almost a Blue Renaissance ministry school.
• Enter The Worship Circle has now sold well over 100,000 units of the, now, 8 album collection. (Two new albums were released in 2007.)
• Ben Pasley's first book was published by Relevant Media in 2001 entitled Enter The Worship Circle and sold almost 8,000 copies before it was returned to Ben Pasley for independent publishing.  That work is presently being reshaped for a new edition release in late 2009.
• In 2007 Ben launched the www.churchthink.com website which continues to grow its podcast and big article blog format of encouragements on loving and leading the family Jesus loves!
• In 2009 they launched an private Worship Circle network on Ning as part of EnterTheWorshipCircle.com to allow family and friends to connect, and they also launched the very public HouseConcertResource.com especially designed to inspire the worshiping house concert artist.
• Also in 2009 Ben launched The Empowerment House, a coaching service designed to help the independent artist and author become profitably independent.
• Presently, Ben is working on two new, but top secretly cool, web endeavors:  one to help the independent author, and one to help the Psalm obsessed worshiper.

On a more personal note, Ben presently struggles between his love/hate relationship with the brown trout in the unpredictable Arkansas River and his love/hate relationship with the rainbow trout in the overly groomed and managed South Platte River.  He has turned his creative attention in 2009 to writing books and helping other independent authors as well.  He has one title submitted to the editor's pen entitled Tom and the Goldfish Bowl--a book about the distinctions between the Kingdom of God, the Church, and the Traditions of Men, and a second book that he is just beginning to pound out of his keyboard.