Michael J. Buckley, S.J., is Canisius Professor of Theology at Boston College and Director of the Jesuit Institute. His books include Motion and Motion’s God: Thematic Variations in Aristostle, Cicero, Newton, and Hegel and At the Origins of Modern Atheism.

A member of the board of Henri Nouwen Society. He studied with Henri Nouwen at Yale Divinity School and currently teaches spirituality at Drew University, where he directs the doctor of Ministry program. He is the author of five books on spirituality Director and former editor of Sacred Journey, an interfaith spirituality journal for which she conducted teh last interview of Henri Nouwen's life. She has writtten five books and more than 100 articles on spiritual life

Fr. Himes is a theologian currently teaching theology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He served as professor and academic dean of the Seminary of Immaculate Conception on Long Island, New York, and as associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Michael Kennedy is pastor of the Dolores Mission Parish in East Los Angeles and an author of books on Christian meditation and Jesus.

Michael L. Lindvall, was born in 1947 in Minnesota into a tradition of what he likes to call “straight-backed Scandinavian piety”. His family moved throughout Minnesota’s “wonderfully same little communities that love to tell and retell good stories” before settling in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Reverend Lindvall is the author of Leaving North Haven, also available from Crossroad Carlisle Books. A Presbyterian pastor and graduate of Princeton Seminary, the author currently resides with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Michael Morwood has an extensive background in spirituality and adult faith formation. He is internationally acclaimed for his clear and accessible writing, workshops and lectures on the need for Christians to reshape religious thinking and imagination. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife, Maria.

Samuel Gregg is director of research at the Acton Institute and the author of several books, including John Paul II and the Development of Catholic Social Teaching, The Modern Papacy, and On Ordered Liberty. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Michel Cuypers is specialist on Biblical and Semitic Studies, and a follower of Charles de Foucauld. Cuypers resided in Iran for twelve years, first at a leper colony in Tabriz, and later studying Persian language and literature in Teheran. He obtained a doctorate in Persian literature from the University of Teheran in 1983. He studied Arabic in Syria and Egypt, and in 1989 he moved to Cairo, where he presently resides as a researcher at the Dominican Institute for Eastern Studies. Since 1994 Cuypers has utilized the method of rhetorical...

Michel Quoist was born in Le Havre, France on June 18, 1918. His working-class Catholic family was also involved with the Young Christian Workers movement. However, his father died when Michel was only 14 years old and Michel needed then to work. In 1938 he entered the seminary and was ordained a priest in 1947 at Saint-Oeun abbey in Normandy. In his work as a chaplain and a writer he was especially passionate about ministering to young people. After Advanced Studies at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, as...