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  • Contributors

George Elfie Ballis is an award-winning labor journalist, community activist, photographer and film maker based in the Central Valley of California. www.sunmt.org/cesar.html

Ralph Black’s poems have appeared in such places as The Gettysburg Review, Passages North, and The Georgia Review. He is the author of Turning Over the Earth (Milkweed, 2000).

Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at College of the Holy Cross where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published four collections of poems: Life-list (Ohio State University Press/Journal award, 1987); What Binds Us to This World (Copper Beech, l991); Heavy Grace (Alice James, l996); Against Consolation (CavanKerry, 2002). A new book, Common Life, is due in the spring of 2006. rcording@holycross.edu

Richard J. Hauser, SJ is Professor of Theology at Creighton University. He also serves as Director of the Master’s Program in Christian Spirituality and as Rector of the Jesuit Community at Creighton University. His publications include three books: In His Spirit: A Guide to Today’s Spirituality (Paulist, 1982), Moving in the Spirit: Becoming a Contemplative in Action (Paulist, 1986), and Finding God in Troubled Times (Loyola University Press, 2002). hausersj@creighton.edu

Edward Howells is Lecturer in Christian Spirituality at Heythrop College, University of London. He received his Ph.D. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and is author of John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila: Mystical Knowing and Selfhood (Crossroad, 2002). e.howells@heythrop.ac.uk

Andy Ilachinski is a professional physicist (with a Ph.D. in complex adaptive systems) and semi-professional photographer (specializing in fine-art and abstract photography). He has several juried works on permanent display at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and is a featured artist of the Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy. www.tao-of-photography.com

Rebecca Krawiec is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Canisius College and author of Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2002). krawiecr@canisius.edu

T.M. Luhrmann is Max Palevsky Professor in the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on the social construction of psychological experience, and the way that social practice alters psychological mechanism. She is also author of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England (Harvard, 1989), The Good Parsi (Harvard, 1996), and Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry (Knopf, 2001). tluhrman@uchicago.edu [End Page 254]

E. Ann Matter is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes on medieval biblical interpretation and medieval spirituality and mysticism, especially the religious life of medieval women. amatter@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

John McGuckin is a priest theologian of the Romanian Orthodox Church. He is a Fellow of the British Royal Historical Society, Professor of Early Church History at Union Theological Seminary, and Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University in New York. He has written extensively on matters relating to the New Testament, Early Christian history, and Byzantium. jmcguckn@uts.columbia.edu

Vincent J. Miller is Associate Professor of Theology at Georgetown. He is the author of Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture (Continuum, 2004). He is currently researching how the cultural effects of globalization impact religious faith and practice. millerv@georgetown.edu

Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religion, and Classics at Northwestern University, where she holds the John Evans Professorship in Latin. In addition to God and the Goddesses, she is the author of From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (Pennsylvania, 1995) and several books on Hildegard of Bingen. bjnewman@northwestern.edu

Kathleen Norris is the author of The Cloister Walk (Riverhead, 1996), Amazing Grace (Riverhead, 1998), and The Quotidian Mysteries (Paulist, 1998). She is currently at work on a book about accedia.

Ingrid J. Peterson, OSF, is an adjunct faculty member at the Franciscan Institute of Saint Bonaventure University. She has lectured on a variety of Franciscan topics and written numerous articles and essays, including Clare of Assisi: A Biographical Study. She is a Rochester, Minnesota...

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