Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality

Kimberly F. Baker is Assistant Professor of Church History at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. She specializes in historical theology with a particular focus on Augustine’s preaching on the life of the Church. Her articles have appeared in Horizons and Studia Patristica. kbaker@saintmeinrad.edu

Kimberly Hope Belcher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She does research in sacramental theology and ritual studies. She is the author of Efficacious Engagement (Michael Glazier, 2011). Her current work explores how seeing the Eucharist as human ritual can enhance an understanding of it as the work of the Trinity, and help the West recover the sacramental role of the Holy Spirit. kim.belcher@gmail.com

Peter J. Bellini is a mission theologian and renewal specialist, serving as Assistant Professor of Evangelization in the Heisel Chair at United Theological Seminary. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and has served as a pastor and an evangelist in urban ministry for over twenty-five years. He is the author of Participation: Epistemology and Mission Theology, Emeth Press and Truth Therapy (Wipf and Stock, 2010). pbellini@united.edu

Kevin Brown is a Professor at Lee University. He has published three books of poetry: Liturgical Calendar: Poems (Wipf and Stock, 2014); A Lexicon of Lost Words (Snake Nation Press, 2014), which was the winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry; and Exit Lines (Plain View Press, 2009). He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again (Wipf and Stock, 2012), and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (Kennesaw State University Press, 2012). kevinrbrown@att.net

Erik C. Carter is Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University School of Religion in Loma Linda, CA, where he teaches courses on practical theology and spirituality for students in the health sciences. He holds doctoral degrees from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (DMin), and Claremont School of Theology (PhD). His most recent dissertation explored the Shabbat practices of American pulpit rabbis from a practical theological perspective. eccarter@llu.edu. [End Page 265]

Lisa E. Dahill is Associate Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA. ldahill@callutheran.edu

Karen Donovan’s first collection of poems, Fugitive Red (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999), won the Juniper Prize. Her new collection, Your Enzymes Are Calling the Ancients, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books and is forthcoming in 2016. Her poems have appeared most recently in Blackbird, Conjunctions, and Mudlark. She works as a writer and graphic designer in Providence. donovan.rumble@gmail.com

Matthieu Dupont is a photographer based in France. www.matthieudupont.com/; photo.reporter@free.fr

James Estes is the Director of the Library and Associate Professor of Theological Bibliography at Wesley Theological Seminary, and a doctoral candidate in Theology & Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America. His main area of research is medieval Christian spirituality and vernacular theology, with particular interest in Anglo-Saxon England. His dissertation examines spirituality and wisdom literature in the translation program of Alfred the Great. He is ordained clergy with the United Church of Christ (UCC). jestes@wesleyseminary.edu

Marina Favila is an English professor at James Madison University. She has published essays on early modern drama, poetry, and film in Cahiers Élisabéthains, Modern Philology, CEA Forum, Upstart Crow, Hellas, and (forthcoming) Texas Studies in Literature and Language. favilamc@jmu.edu

Elisabeth Hense TO.Carm, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands), is Assistant Professor of Spirituality at that university. She has published many monographs, translations and articles on spirituality in German, English, Dutch and Italian and edited a number of volumes, including Towards a Theory of Spirituality (Peeters, 2011), Present-Day Spiritualities (Brill, 2014) and Maria Petyt–A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime (Brill, 2015). E.Hense@ftr.ru.nl

Norbert Heyers is an architect and artist living in Aix La Chapelle, Germany. His firm has partnered with Sir James Stirling for a Venice Biennale project. He has been exhibiting as a visual artist and photographer since 1974 in various cities in Germany and Europe. https://www...