After receiving an AA degree, Lindholm went on to achieve high honors from Central Washington University in "Philosophy" and "Philology and Exegesis," and was named State Finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship in his senior year.

During his graduate study, Lindholm complemented time at Oxford with other institutions, including L'École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2005 and Juilliard in New York in 2007.

[6] Subsequently, while Lindholm lived in Queens, NY between 2006 and 2007, he started working with documentarian Albert Maysles,[7] which segued into further projects with ITV and BBC in 2008-9 and an acting role in Larry Holden's independent film "All Sun and Little White Flowers" that summer.

[8] Lindholm is a Kierkegaard scholar[9] and former lecturer in comparative religion at the universities of Washington and Oxford who speaks around the world on philosophical and theological topics.

[10][11][12][13][14] His recent books include Latter-day Dissent, which analyzes the nature and extent of intellectual freedom and disciplinary action in the LDS Church, and Voyeur: Notes of Disquiet, a collection of aphorisms.