Michael Battle
A renowned Jesus scholar with the highest of national and international
credits and praise, Dr. Marcus Borg has written many books including his
widely known Meeting Jesus Again for the First
Time and Reading the Bible Again for the First
Time. His most recent works are:
The Heart of Christianity,
The Last Week (co-authored
with John Dominic Crossan), and Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teaching and Relevance of a
Religious Revolutionary His work has been
translated into nine languages; he lectures extensively throughout North America
and overseas.
A retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, Frederick Borsch
is presently Professor of Anglican Studies at the Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Philadelphia. Educated at Princeton, Oxford and the General
Theological Seminary, his Ph.D. degree is from the University of Birmingham in
England. He is presently also Adjunct Professor of Religion at the University of
Southern California. Contributor of essays, articles and poetry to a number of
journals and newspapers, he is the author or editor of 17 books, most recently
The Spirit Searches Everything. He has been a conference leader and given
university and seminary lectures at a number of institutions in this country and
abroad.
The Rev. Dr. Fred Burnham is the former director of Trinity Institute, a
program for the continuing theological education of Episcopal clergy and laity
sponsored by the Parish of Trinity Church, New York City. He was educated at
Harvard, the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge University, England, and The
Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Ph.D. in the History of Science.
He also holds an honorary degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He
writes and lectures on the relationship between science and religion.
During his sixteen-year tenure as the third director of Trinity Institute, Dr. Burnham has broadened the Institute's audience by inaugurating The Episcopal Cathedral Teleconferencing Network, an interactive satellite-broadcasting medium.
Jon M. Sweeney is the author of many books
that present key people, events, and legends of the Middle Ages to a wide
audience. Light in the Dark Ages: The Friendship of Francis and Clare of
Assisi was a selection of the History Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club, and
One Spirit, Crossings, Reader’s Subscription, and Quality Paperback book clubs.
His memoir, Born Again and Again was named one of the "Best Books of 2005" by Spirituality & Health magazine and awarded an "Award of Merit" by Christianity Today.
Jon’s look at embodied prayer across the religious traditions, Praying with Our Hands, was featured on PBS’s "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly"; and his edited version of Paul Sabatier’s classic biography of St. Francis, The Road to Assisi, was also a selection of History Book Club and Book-of-the-Month Club.
For many years, Jon was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of SkyLight Paths Publishing, a multifaith trade book publisher in Vermont. Since 2004, he has been the associate publisher at Paraclete Press.
Before becoming a full-time teacher in 1997,
Barbara Brown Taylor spent fifteen years in parish ministry. In 2001, she
joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, as
adjunct professor of Christian spirituality. An editor-at-large for The
Christian Century and sometime commentator on Georgia Public Radio, she is
the author of numerous books including Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Harper San Francisco 2007), When God Is Silent (Cowley 1998) and
Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation (Cowley 2000).
Visit Barbara Brown Taylor's Web site.
Phyllis Tickle
is the former Contributing Editor in Religion to Publisher's Weekly,
the international journal of the book industry. Frequently quoted in sources
like Newsweek, Time, Life, The New York Times,
USA Today, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, BBC, VOA, etc., Tickle is an authority on
religion in America and a much sought after lecturer on the subject. In addition
to lectures and numerous essays, articles, and interviews, Tickle is the author
of some two dozen books, most of them in religion and spirituality. Two of her
most current books are: The Words of Jesus: a Gospel of the Sayings of our Lord and This Is What I Pray
Today The Divine Hours™ Prayers For Children.
Visit Phyllis Tickle's Web
site.
