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  • Contributors

Thomas Beaudoin is visiting Professor in the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at Boston College, the author of Virtual Faith (Jossey-Bass, 2000), and bassist for the rock band Mother Cruiser. thomas.beaudoin.1@bc.edu

Maria Tattu Bowen is Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Portland. Her teaching and research focuses on the relationship between Christian Spirituality and the arts. She is currently writing about the reading of poetry as Christian spiritual text. bowenm@up.edu

Lawrence Cunningham is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and teaches and writes extensively on Christian spirituality. His most recent book is Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision (Eerdmans, 1999). He writes the “Religion Book Notes” for Commonweal magazine. cunningham.1@nd.edu

Oliver Davies is Professor at the Department of Theology, Religious Studies, and Islamic Studies and a member of the Centre for the Study of Religion in Celtic Societies at the University of Wales, Almpeter. He is author of God Within: The Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe and editor of Celtic Spirituality (Paulist Press). http://www.lamp.ac.uk/trs/o.davies@lamp.ac.uk

Constance FitzGerald, OCD, is Prioress of the Carmelite Monastery in Baltimore. She is the author of the frequently quoted, now classic essay, “Impasse and Dark Night,” and “Transformation in Wisdom: The Subversive Character and Educative Power of Sophia in Contemplation,” in Carmel and Contemplation (ICS, 2000). ConnieFitzGerald@baltimorecarmel.org

Richard Gaillardetz is the Murray Bacik Professor of Catholic Thought at the University of Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of tranforming Our Days: Spirituality, Community and Liturgy in a Technological Age and A Daring Promise: A Spirituality of Christian Marriage (Crossroad). richard.gaillardetz@utoledo.edu

Alexander Golitzin teaches in the Theology Department at Marquette University. He is author of New Light from the Holy Mountain (St. Tikhon's Seminary Press, 1996); Et introibo ad altare dei: The Mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagita (Thessalonika, 1994); and St Symeon the New Theologian on the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses (3 vols., St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1995–1997). alexander.golitzen@marquette.edu

Bradley Hanson is Director of the Grace Institute for Spiritual Formation at Luther College, Iowa. He is a past secretary-treasurer and past president of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. He edited Modern Christian Spirituality: Methodological and Historical Essays and is author of A Graceful Life: Lutheran Spirituality for Today. hansonbr@martin.luther.edu

Paul Harvey is Associate Professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. pharvey@uccs.edu

Walter W. Hunt is a native of Atlanta, Ga. Son of painter, Julia Wellborn Daugette, Mr. Hunt is self-taught. He has over one thousand published illustrations. He now lives on Amelia Island, FL and owns Hunt Fossils, Art and Artifact Gallery. Several times each year, he plans and leads fossil tours to Morocco, North Africa.

Francis Kline serves as Abbot at Mepkin Abbey, a community of monks living in the Trappist-Cistercian tradition. He is a Julliard trained organist. franciskline@infoave.net

Josef Koudelka has been the recipient of major grants and awards including the Grand Prix National de la Photographie and a Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson. After becoming a French citizen in 1987, he was able to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time in 1990, where he produced a study of his native country's landscape wasted by industrialization and environmental catastrophies.

Belden Lane is Hotfelder Professor in Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. lanebc@slu.edu

Marie Anne Mayeski is a Professor of Historical Theology at Loyola Marymount University. She specializes in medieval theology with emphasis on medieval biblical interpretation, women's participation in the church and hagiographical studies. mmayeski@lmumail.lmu.edu

Czeslaw Milosz is Professor Emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1978 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

Mary Oliver is the author of ten books of poetry, and is the recepient of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Christopher Award, and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her most recent book is What...

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