Kenneth S. Leong is an accomplished Zen teacher, author, artist and poet who has a solid background in Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism. He has been engaged in interfaith dialogue since his teenage years as has given several talks in various churches, temples, universities and other spiritual and religious organizations. Mr. Leong publishes widely in the area of spirituality in the modern world. He holds a master’s degree from New York University. He lives in Rye, New York.

Dr. Kevin Mongrain earned his master’s degree from St. John’s, Minnesota, and his Ph.D. from Yale University, New Haven, CT. He currently teaches at St. Mary’s Seminary, San Antonio, TX.

Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., is an author and translator of the works of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. A member of the Institute of Carmelite Studies, he was the vice postulator for the canonization of Edith Stein.

Krishna Sivaraman is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Canada, and is the author of Saivism in Philosophical Perspective, co-editor of and contributor to Revelation in Indian Philosophy, and author of many articles published in North America and India

Fr Laurence was born in England in 1951 where he was educated by the Benedictines and studied English Literature at Oxford University. In the monastery his spiritual teacher was John Main with whom he studied and whom he helped in the establishment of the first Christian Meditation Centre in London. In 1977, he went with John Main at the invitation of the Archbishop of Montreal to establish a Benedictine community of monks and laypeople dedicated to the practice and teaching of Christian meditation. Fr Laurence studied theology at the Universite...

Rabbi Leon Klenicki was a renowned scholar, theologian, and interfaith pioneer. The Anti-Defamation League’s longtime director of Interfaith Affairs and co-Liaison to the Vatican, Klenicki received many awards for his work, and was made a papal knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI. Klenicki died in 2009.

Leonardo Boff is a former Franciscan monk, a theologian and a poet known for his strong voice for the promotion of human rights and ecological responsibility. He is the professor emeritus of ethics, philosophy of religion, and ecology at Rio de Janeiro State University. He is the author of more than 60 books in the areas of theology, spirituality, philosophy, anthropology and mysticism.

Lisa Sowle Cahill is an American ethicist, and J. Donald Monan Professor at the Boston College. She is known for her studies on gender and sexual ethics, but has extended her work to social and global ethics.