Bill Blaine-Wallace, an Episcopal priest, is rector of Emmanuel Church in Boston. Bill took a 10-year break from parish ministry in the 1980s and early '90s to be with and attend to those living and dying with AIDS. He moonlights as a pastoral psychotherapist at The Salem Center in Salem, Mass., a community of postmodern therapists, a place where people make mutual, co-creating, collaborative company with an unapologetic prejudice towards peace and justice for all.

Bill writes in the areas of grief, peace, justice and spirituality. His attempt and desire to bring these dimensions into greater dialogue and relation is Water in the Wastelands: The Sacrament of Shared Suffering, Cowley Publications.