David Pocta is a Christian Spirituality Scholar, ministry builder, and educator. After nearly three decades of pastoral work, he returned to school for his PhD in Christian Contemporary Spirituality. His work blends his experience in pastoral ministry with spirituality scholarship. His research interests include the spiritual journey, spiritual wilderness, contemporary evangelical church culture, and Christian mysticism. His dissertation addressed how the spiritual journey of Christians, when in their own wilderness, exposes the need for a reimagined church culture in Protestant evangelicalism. David is a collaborator and builder. He enjoys creating...

David Robinson is the author of The Christian Family Toolbox. He is pastor of Community Presbyterian Church and a Benedictine Oblate of Mount Angel Abbey. He lives in Cannon Beach, Oregon.

David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine monk, an author, a psychologist, a theologian, an anthropologist, and a lecturer. His pioneering work on behalf of interfaith dialogue won him the Martin Buber Award in 1975. He is the author of Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart and the coauthor of Belonging to the Universe, winner of the American Book Award, and The Ground We Share. He has contributed to numerous books and periodicals, including Encyclopedia Americana and New Age Journal, and serves as founding advisor of www.gratefulness.org. He lives...

David Tracy is a professor of theology at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and a professor in that university's Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and Methods program.

Deal Hudson is one of a handful of the most influential voices in American Catholicism. A scholar by training (Ph.D., Emory), he has written for countless major media, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The New Republic, and The Los Angeles Times. He has also appeared on many television shows, including NBC Nightly News, CNN’s Inside Politics, The Beltway Boys, and Mother Angelica Live. The show he hosts on EWTN is now in its seventh season.

The late Dean Brackley was born in upstate New York in 1946. He entered the Jesuit order in 1964 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1976. He received his doctorate in theological ethics at the University of Chicago in 1980. In the '70s and '80s, Brackley worked in social ministry and popular education on Manhattan's Lower East Side and in the South Bronx. He taught at Fordham University for two years before joining the staff of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in El Salvador in 1990. He taught theology and...

Deborah Brown is editor of American Asian Review and teaches in the Asian Studies department at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

Denise Matychowiak has worked as a cook, sous chef, and pastry assistant at Louis XVI Restaurant in New Orleans and La Caravelle in New York City, and served as food editor at Faith and Family magazine. She enjoys reading books and articles on two of her favorite topics—theology and food. Denise is currently learning how to belly dance and works as a private chef in Manhattan.

Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M., is the chairperson of the department of religious studies at Siena College, where he teaches courses in theology, the Reformation, Franciscan service and advocacy, and mysticism. He is the author of books on mysticism, Bernard of Clairvaux, and John Calvin.