Michael played for several years with the handbell choir Bells on Temple Square and has been a member of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square since 2010. He teaches in a German Dual Language Immersion program.

He is the author of the novels in The Canticle Kingdom Series, The Last Archangel Series, the Chess Quest Series and the Penultimate Dawn Cycle. He has also had work featured in various online and print magazines such as Bards and Sages Quarterly, Mindflights, Nugent Magazine, Meridian, The New Era, Allegory, and Ensign.

He also publishes the podcast Chapter and Verse.