Contributors
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J. Matthew Ashley is Associate Professor of systematic theology and chair of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame. He has written on political and liberation theology with particular interest in the role that Ignatian spirituality has played in the formulation of these theologies. Expanding on that work, he is currently completing a book on the place of Ignatian spirituality in twentieth century theology, and beginning research on the interrelations between Christian theology and the science of evolution.
Dr. Michael Brooks is a historian and journalist with research interests in the roles of epidemic logical history as well as the histories of the colonial Atlantic and European expansion.
Ryan Bush is a fine-art photographer who strives to reveal the sacred mysteries hidden in everyday things. He is represented by several art galleries, exhibits nationally, and his work can also be seen at www.RyanBushPhotography.com. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Santa Cruz, and is also a classical flutist.
Jean L. Connor began writing poems after retiring from a long career as a librarian in New York State. Her first volume of poems, A Cartography of Peace, and second, A Hinge of Joy, both published by Passager Books (2005 and 2009), reflect her passionate eye for natural wonders, and draw on the clarity of vision developed through a lifelong meditative practice. She lives and writes, now into her nineties, at Wake Forest retirement community in Shelburne, Vermont.
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 five collections of poems: Against Consolation (Cavankerry, 2002), and Common Life (Cavankerry, 2006). A new collection, Walking With Ruskin, is forthcoming in October, 2010. His poems have appeared in numerous publications such as the Nation, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Poetry, Kenyon and New England Review, Orion, and The New Yorker.rcording@holycross.edu
Lisa E. Dahill is Associate Professor of Worship and Christian Spirituality at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, OH, and a member of the Governing Board of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. [End Page 330]
Angelyn Dries holds the Danforth Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. Her research areas include American Catholic mission history, women and religion, and world Christianity. She is co-editor with Joseph P. Chinnici, OFM of Prayer and Practice in the American Catholic Community (Orbis, 2000) and has authored The Missionary Movement in American Catholic History (Orbis, 1998).
Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. was a Jesuit philosopher and theologian who, for the last ten years of his life, was the rector of the Jesuit university in San Salvador, El Salvador,. He wrote numerous works in philosophy and co-edited with Jon Sobrino, Mysterium Liberationis: Fundamental Concepts of Liberation Theology, which includes several of his articles. He was assassinated by a Salvadoran army battalion in 1989, along with seven coworkers.
Paul Elliot studied photography in London, England and has worked as a cinematographer on over forty films for TV and theatrical release. Nominated for three American Society of Cinematographers awards and winner of one. He also won best cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Gil Gautier is a photographer based in Les Granges, France.
Roger Haight, SJ is Scholar in Residence at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has published in the areas of christology and ecclesiology and is currently working on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola.
Jane Hirshfield's seventh poetry collection, Come, Thief, will be published by Knopf in 2011. Her most recent book, After, was named a best book of 2006 by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and England's Financial Times. Other new work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Orion. Hirshfield is also the author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (Harper Perennial, 1998).
Amy Hollywood is Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete...
