Editor's Note: About the Authors
This issue of the Journal has no one theme but several very interesting and provocative articles as well as three reviews of books of interest to religious liberals. Our book review section is new, and it is the editor's hope that it will become a regular feature. Like all our articles, book reviews are published only after being approved by two of our reviewers.
Tim Barger is a 2009 M.Div. graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School. He has a doctorate in mass communications from Syracuse University. He is also managing editor of this Journal.
David E. Bumbaugh is professor of ministry at Meadville Lombard Theological School, minister emeritus of the Unitarian Church in Summit, New Jersey, and a frequent contributor to these pages.
Jennifer Crow is associate minister at First Unitarian Church of Rochester, New York. She is a contributor to the book Reverend X: How Generation X Ministers Are Shaping Unitarian Universalism.
William R Patterson is adjunct professor and Ph.D. candidate in the international studies program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, Journal of Social Philosophy, and International Journal of Applied Philosophy, among others.
Myriam Renaud is a third-year Ph.D. student at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, from which she also earned her M.Div. An ordained UU minister, her area of concentration is constructive philosophical theology. Awarded the Langdon Gilkey Scholarship for the 2007-08 academic year she blogs at www.TheNakedTheologian.com.
Brent A. Smith, a frequent contributor, is minister of All Souls Community of West Michigan in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and former senior minister of All Souls Unitarian, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Fountain Street Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Jerome A. Stone is professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Harper College in suburban Chicago and adjunct professor at Meadville Lombard Theological School. He is a frequent contributor to this Journal.
John H. Weston is transitions director of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Our reviewers include Peter Schogol, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship who trains public safety telecommunicators in Central Kentucky, and William R. Murry, this Journal's editor, former president of Meadville Lombard Theological School and minister emeritus of River Road UU Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland. | 
