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• Jean Pond

  Pond is formerly visiting associate professor of biology at Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and the M.S. from Oregon State University. An area of emphasis in her master's work was the history and philosophy of science. She received her doctorate in microbiology from the School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota. Her doctoral research, which focused on the membrane lipids of a hyperthermophilic bacterium, was followed by postdoctoral work in molecular biology at the University of Florida. Pond is currently retired from teaching, though she recently led a course in the history and philosophy of science at Whitworth College. In 1993 she was awarded the Howard Vollum Writing Award on "Horizons of Science and the Christian Faith" for her article Catholic Frogs. She and her family spent the year 1996-1997 in a rural and disadvantaged area of South Africa, where she and her husband volunteered as teachers in St. Mark's School (a junior and senior high school affiliated with the Anglican Church).

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• Christian George

  

  Christian George

  Christian George has traveled to more than twenty-four countries in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and Asia for ministry and missionary work. He has participated in Baptist World Alliance conventions in South Korea, Sweden, Germany, Canada and England, and served at a Billy Graham crusade in Amsterdam, Holland. His experience includes being a preacher, youth counselor, jazz band musician and creative artist. He is currently an M.Div. student at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University.

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• J. B. Lightfoot

  

  J. B. Lightfoot

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889), also known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian, preacher, canon of St Paul's Cathedral and bishop of Durham.

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• Mark Yaconelli

  

  Mark Yaconelli

  Mark Yaconelli is a writer, speaker, spiritual director and community activist. He is the founder and executive director of The Hearth Community, a nonprofit that assists towns and charitable organizations in cultivating compassion through personal storytelling. His previous books include Contemplative Youth Ministry and Wonder, Fear, and Longing. Profiles of Mark have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News Tonight and Youthworker Journal. Mark lives in southern Oregon with his wife, Jill, and their three children.

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• InterVarsity Press Wins Prestigious Design Awards

  InterVarsity Press won the Crystal Book Award for book design presented by the Midwest Publishing Association (MPA) at the MPA's sixty-first annual Book and Media Show held on October 18 at the Newberry Library in Chicago. InterVarsity Press (IVP) took home three awards, including two honorable mentions, for "pushing the edges of publishing design."

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• Mark R. McMinn

  

  Mark R. McMinn

  Mark R. McMinn (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is professor of psychology at George Fox University, where he serves as the director of faith integration in the Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology. His books include Integrative Psychotherapy, Care for the Soul, and Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling.

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• New Explorations in Theology Series Submissions

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• Parker J. Palmer

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• Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

  

  Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

  Adele Ahlberg Calhoun and her husband Doug have served on the pastoral staff of four churches and are currently copastors of spiritual formation at Highrock Covenant Church in Arlington, Massachusetts. As certified Enneagram instructors, they enjoy resourcing spiritual leaders and pastors through spiritual direction and teaching the Enneagram. Adele is the author of Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, Invitations from God, and coauthor of True You.

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• Gina Burkart

  

  Gina Burkart

  Gina Burkart teaches writing at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She is also a freelance writer and editor for Harcourt Religion Publishers. She published "Why Harry Potter Should Go to School" in Today's Catholic Teacher and presented that same material at the Art Soul conference at Baylor University.

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