Robert Corin Morris
ROBERT CORIN MORRIS is the founder and executive director of Interweave, an ecumenical and interfaith learning center, which helps people choose hope by boosting wellness, deepening spirituality and promoting the common good. An Episcopal priest, spiritual director, and chaplain to clergy in Newark, Robert is the author of three books. He is also a presenter for many Academies for Spiritual Formation, and he leads parish missions, retreats, and training events.
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
is a Fellow of the Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts at Westmont College. She currently writes and teaches in the Bay Area, and leads retreats and adult education courses for churches. She has written extensively on literature related to medicine, health, illness, and healing. Her books include Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Drawn to the Light: Poems on Rembrandt’s Religious Paintings, The Color of Light: Poems on Van Gogh’s Paintings, and Christ, My Companion: Meditations on the Prayer of St. Patrick. Her newest book, Reading Like a Serpent, considers how The Scarlet Letter teaches us to read scripture. marilynchandlermcentyre.com.
Luci Shaw
is a poet, essayist, and teacher. Author of nearly thirty books of prose and poetry, she is Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. Besides Weavings, her writing has appeared in Image,<em Books & Culture, The Christian Century, and others. Her most recent books are What the Light Was Like, Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnatio, and Breath for the Bones: Essays on Art, Imagination and Spirit. Released in 2010, Harvesting Fog is her thirtieth book.
E. Glenn Hinson
is Professor Emeritus of Spirituality and Church History, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. A prolific author, he has contributed numerous articles to Weavings and has served on its Advisory Board from the beginning. His most recent books include Love at the Heart of Things: A Biography of Douglas V. Steere and Spiritual Preparation for Christian Leadership. His autobiography, A Miracle of Grace, will be published in the fall of 2012.
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
is pastor of St. Matthew's UMC in Acton, MA. He has also served in New Hampshire and Montana. Steve writes a daily reflection called Unfolding Light, as well as lectionary-based music and worship resources www.unfoldinglight.net. He also writes and performs music and comedy with a quartet called the Montana Logging and Ballet Company. Steve and his wife have three sons in their twenties, the oldest of whom is getting married in October, 2012.
Heidi Grogan
is Senior Program Advisor at Servants Anonymous Society, an agency supporting sexually exploited women. There, she writes curriculum geared to healing from the sex trade lifestyle and teaches creative writing. She earned her MCS in Spiritual Theology from Regent College. Heidi is also an adjunct instructor at Ambrose University College, teaching on mystics and social justice. She and her family live in Calgary.
Percy C. Ainsworth
was a graduate of Didsbury College in Manchester, England, and pastor of Wesley Chapel in Birmingham. His published works include The Pilgrim Church and Other Sermons, The Threshold of Grace: Meditations on the Psalms, Poems and Sonnets, The Supreme Grace, and The Blessed Life: Short Addresses on the Beatitudes. Ainsworth died of typhoid fever in 1909 at the age of thirty-six. He was remembered by a friend as a preacher who continually placed people before the “mystery of the soul’s life” and invited them to enter its “unexplored depths.”
Pamela Hawkins
is a United Methodist clergywoman with a heart for contemplative prayer and imaginative writing for the Christian spiritual life. She is the author of The Awkward Season: Prayers for Lent, Simply Wait: Cultivating Stillness in the Season of Advent, and Behold: Cultivating Attentiveness in the Season of Advent. She and her husband, Ray, live in Nashville, Tennessee, where she serves as Associate Pastor at Belmont United Methodist Church.
Luther E. Smith, Jr.
is a professor of church and community at the Candler School of Theology of Emory University where he has taught since 1979. His scholarship focuses on Howard Thurman, Christian spirituality, Christian communalism, and social transformation. Throughout the last decade, Luther has led ecumenical and interfaith organizations in their advocacy for children - especially children who are poor, abused, refugees, and involved in the justice system. He is an ordained minister in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and is currently writing on a spirituality of hope.
