Tom F. Driver is also known for his numerous publications and lectures on similar topics, which range from academic and popular articles to sermons and books.

Driver was also the photographer and director of two documentary films about the violence in Colombia, both of which were written and narrated in collaboration with his wife, historian Anne L. Barstow.

Since his retirement from teaching (1991), Driver has actively been included in a number of projects that promote peace, justice, and human rights in Haiti and Colombia.

When he was five years old, his family moved to Bristol, TN-VA. From an early age, he showed great interest in both church and theater.

Driver received a Kent Fellowship in 1953 that enabled him to enter the Ph.D. program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University with a concentration in the history of theater and drama.

During the life of the Religious Drama program, Driver directed the first New York City production of David, a play by D. H. Lawrence, as well as an abbreviated version of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, by Bertolt Brecht.

Driver's theater criticism began to appear in 1952 with articles in the motive magazine, a publication of the Methodist Student Movement.

This led to his appointment in 1956 as the first-ever theater critic for The Christian Century Magazine through which he gained national recognition.

The oratorio was premiered on January 1, 1957, at Lawrence, Kansas, by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Thor Johnson.

[7] The Reporter (magazine) hired Driver as its theater critic in 1963, starting with a review of Peter Brooke’s celebrated London production of King Lear.

The association ended in less than a year (in the spring of 1964) when Driver ran afoul of the magazine’s founder and publisher, Max Ascoli, by writing a favorable review of James Baldwin’s Broadway play, Blues for Mister Charlie.

Thus rejected, Driver’s review was soon published by three other journals: Christianity and Crisis, The Village Voice, and Negro Digest.

Meanwhile, Driver served on the editorial board of Christianity and Crisis from 1960 until 1965, when he resigned because of the magazine’s reluctance to condemn the Vietnam War.

These tendencies resulted in his first theological book, Patterns of Grace: Human Experience as Word of God (1977), followed by Christ in a Changing World: Toward an Ethical Christology (1981).

The Ritual study Group led Driver to a short period of research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea in the summer of 1976.

The photographs and audio recordings he made there were later presented at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as well as in classroom teaching.

Nine years later, in 1991, his retirement from teaching coincided with a coup d'état against Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrande Aristide.

As an advocate of nonviolent action, as an alternative to war and militarism, Professor Driver edited and wrote the Introduction to a special issue of Church and Society in 2001, a journal published by the Presbyterian Church (USA) entitled Rethinking War, Rethinking Peace, Making Peace.

Ritual, Imagination, and the Role of Media in the Construction of State Power.”[13] In 2011, after living 61 years in New York City, Driver moved with his wife to a retirement community in New Jersey.

There, in 2017, he became the founding chairperson of Senior Advocates for Justice, a politically active group in resistance to the Presidential administration that began that year.

Driver’s papers and photos are archived at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in New York; see the Finding Aid.