Since 1985, Holly van Gulden has been teaching and counseling adoptive and foster parents and training adoption professionals. She has worked throughout the United States, England, Scotland, and Canada. In addition, for over fifteen years, she has codirected Adoptive Family Counseling Center. Van Gulden's refreshing blend of humor and compassion has led her to be invited back repeatedly to speak before such national and international organizations as Adoptive Families of America and the North American Council on Adoptable Children. She also serves as a consultant to numerous clinics, residential treatment...

Hosffman Ospino, born in Colombia and currently living in the United States, teaches pastoral theology and religious education at Boston College where he is the director of the university s graduate programs in Hispanic Ministry. He holds a doctorate in theology and education from Boston College. His writings concentrate on the conversation between faith and culture in culturally diverse contexts and how this conversation shapes Christian education and ministry. Dr. Ospino is an officer of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS) and a member of...

Howard P. Bleichner is a systematic theologian at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, and a leading figure in American priestly formation. He served as president and rector of St. Patrick's Seminary in San Francisco and as rector of the Theological College of the Catholic University of America. He is the author of View from the Altar, and the editor of volumes I and II of the Norms for Priestly Formation and the fourth edition of The Program of Priestly Formation. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

José Ignacio López Vigil is a journalist with extensive experience in the areas of religion, church, and Latin American affairs.

Irene Martin is a fisher, writer and Episcopal priest. She and her husband Kent have fished for salmon in the Pacific Northwest for more than two decades. For her work in preserving local and regional history, she was awarded the Washington Governor's Heritage Award in 2000.