Contributor Notes

J. Daryl Charles is presently an associate professor of religion and ethics at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. During the 2003–4 academic year, he served as Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Faith and Learning at Baylor University. He is the author of Between Pacifism and Jihad: Just War and Christian Tradition (InterVarsity Press, 2005), The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism (InterVarsity Press, 2002), and Virtue Amidst Vice (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997). He has also translated from German to English Claus Westermann's The Roots of Wisdom (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994). In addition to writing frequently on issues of criminal justice, New Testament ethics, and faith and culture, he is a contributing editor for the magazine Touchstone and the journal Cultural Encounters.

Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, is a professor of theology at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon and at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant' Anselmo in Rome. He has published several books on the Egyptian desert father Evagrius Ponticus and numerous other articles in patristics, particularly in relation to liturgy. His latest book, What Happens at Mass (Liturgy Training Publications, 2005), explains the Mass in depth for the nonprofessional theologian. Later this year his poetic essays, A Monk's Alphabet, Random Thoughts of a Monk in Alphabetical Order, will be published by Darton Longman and Todd. This is his second article on Czeslaw Milosz. (See "The Witness of Czeslaw Milosz" in First Things, no. 147 [November 2004].)

Brad S. Gregory is an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, where he also teaches courses cross-listed in theology. A specialist in the history of Christianity in the Reformation Era, he joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 2003 after seven years in the history department at Stanford University. His first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard, 1999), received six book awards and has been widely discussed for its reconstructive, cross-confessional, antireductionist methodology. In 2005, Gregory was the inaugural winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, sponsored by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

An associate professor of English at St. Anselm College (in Manchester, New Hampshire), Thomas Kass, CSV, holds a doctorate in English literature from Loyola University, as well as master's degrees in both theology (from the Catholic Theological Union) and medieval and Renaissance literature (from the University of Chicago). Journals featuring his work on Samuel Johnson include The American Benedictine Review, Cithara, Christianity and Literature, English Language Notes, and Renascence.

James Reidy is a retired professor of English from the University of St. Thomas, where he also taught in the Catholic Studies program. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Minnesota and has published articles on Newman and Belloc. He writes for The Catholic Servant, a publication dedicated to evangelization, catechesis, and apologetics. He serves as a part-time associate pastor at the Church of the Holy Childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Deborah Savage is a former director of the Moss Program in Christian Social Thought and Management at the Center for Catholic Studies and is currently an adjunct professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas. She is completing her doctorate in theology and philosophy at Marquette University. The topic of her dissertation is "The Subjective Dimension of Human Work: The Conversion of the Acting Person in the Thought of Karol Wojtyła and Bernard Lonergan."

Robert A. Ventresca is an associate professor in the department of history at King's University College, the Catholic affiliate of the University of Western Ontario. He is author of From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948 (University of Toronto Press, 2004), as well as several articles on Italian history and Catholicism in the Cold War. He is also a founding member and cochair of the newly established Centre for Catholic-Jewish Learning at King's University College, one of the first of its kind in Canada.