Contributors
Holly Lyman Antolini is an Episcopal priest and director of "the small voice ministry at pin point farm," a contemplative environmental ministry of spiritual exploration with unchurched young people on a coastal farm in Maine.
James E. Frazier is a practicing church musician and a graduate of the Yale University Divinity School, with a diploma from the Institute of Sacred Music. He is writing a biography of Maurice Duruflé.
Dick Gillett is minister for social justice in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and a long-time activist for labor and economic justice issues. An honorary canon of L.A.’s Cathedral of St. Paul, he’s working on a book about Christian social tradition and the new global capitalism.
Beth Johnson is Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga.
Tim McDonald writes from Chattanooga, Tenn., where he is a board member of the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing and works in several other human rights and environmental action groups. A biologist by profession, he and his wife are the parents of a 12-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. His church affiliation is with First Baptist Church of Chattanooga.
Megan McKenna is a theologian, writer, storyteller and Ambassador of Peace for Pax Christi, USA. Her latest book is Prophets: Words of Fire (Orbis).
Muffie Moroney is a lawyer who lives in Houston, Tex. She is co-convener of Integrity Houston and a member of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company board.
David Smith-Ferri lives in Ukiah, Calif., where he is a poet and a stay-at-home dad. He traveled to Iraq for two weeks in July of 1999, and again in Sept.-Oct. of 2002, with the organization, Voices in the Wilderness. He is a Roman Catholic who is drawn most deeply to the tradition of social justice and mysticism in the Christian church. Voices in the Wilderness is a campaign to end the economic sanctions against Iraq. It has taken over 40 delegations of American and British citizens to Iraq to witness the effects of the international embargo and of war on Iraqi society.
Rima Vesely is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary and is currently in her ministry study year in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. In addition to selecting poetry for The Witness, she writes on issues of racism, immigration, and incarceration. She is a Witness contributing editor.
Dan Webster is director of communications for the Episcopal Diocese of Utah.