Contributors

Colleen O’Connor is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in People, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. She writes frequently on spirituality, and is happiest when roaming in the silence of nature. She lives in San Francisco, Calif.

L. William Countryman is professor of New Testament at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif., and author of Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of All (1999) among many other books. He is a Witness contributing editor.

Georgia E. Fuller, Ph.D., is a writer who has contributed stories on feminism and the Roman Catholic Church to The Witness and other publications for more than 25 years. She is a Quaker and a 2000 graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary (an Episcopal seminary).

Mark Harris is executive director of the Global Episcopal Mission Network and a clergy deputy to the Episcopal Church’s General Convention from the Diocese of Delaware. He is a member of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company Board of Directors.

Kevin Jones is a journalist and internet entrepreneur based in San Francisco, Calif.

Susi Moser, Ph.D. is by training a geographer and earth scientist. She currently works as staff scientist for climate change issues for the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass. She is a Witness contributing editor.

Carla V. Pryne is associate rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island, Washington, and founding director of Earth Ministry.

Jane Slaughter is the editor of Labor Notes, a magazine for reform-minded union activists, based in Detroit, Mich.

Peter Selby is the author of Grace and Mortgage: The language of faith and the debt of the world (1997) and Rescue: Jesus and Salvation Today (1995). Before becoming the Bishop of Worcester, England, he held the William Leech Professorial Fellowship in Applied Christian Theology at Durham University. He is a Witness contributing editor.

Katie Sherrod is a freelance writer and independent television producer who lives in Fort Worth, Tex. She is the editor of Ruach, the newsletter of the Episcopal Women’s Caucus and a Witness contributing editor.

Norman Solomon, author of The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media, is a syndicated columnist whose work is archived at www.fair.org/media-beat/.

Cristina Verán is a journalist, historian and lecturer who has documented global cultural phenomena and socio-political movements extensively for media outlets from Ms. Magazine to Vibe to News From Indian Country. As a United Nations correspondent, she has focused considerably on the coverage and dissemination of news, issues and interests pertaining to indigenous peoples.

Joseph Wakelee-Lynch is a writer and editor in Berkeley, Calif. For most of the 1980s, he was a staff member of Sojourners magazine. He is a co-founder of an anti-death penalty group at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, and he recently worked for The American Friends Service Committee in Oakland on its death penalty project. He is a Witness contributing editor.