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Dr. Lisa Fullam D.V.M., Th.D. is prof. emerita of moral theology from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU) and associate veterinarian at New Baltimore Animal Hospital in West Coxsackie, NY. After veterinary studies at Cornell, she earned a doctorate in Christian ethics from Harvard Divinity School. Research interests include virtue ethics, medical, veterinary medical, and sexual ethics, the intersection of ethics and spirituality, and Ignatian spirituality. Her research interests include the intersection of ethics and spirituality, and Ignatian spirituality. She is also the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic and last year co-wrote Living Prayer: A Book of Hours for Renewing Creation. After 19 years at JST-SCU, she and her husband John R. Mabry packed up their house and their boxer dogs and headed to the upper Hudson Valley in NY where she resumed veterinary practice.

Rev. John R. Mabry holds a PhD. in Philosophy & Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA, as well as a Master's degree in Culture and Creation Spirituality from Holy Names College in Oakland, CA. He is a United Church of Christ minister and served as pastor of Grace North Church UCC/NACCC in Berkeley for 27 years. He currently teaches comparative theology at an interfaith seminary, the Chaplaincy Institute, where he also directs the interfaith spiritual direction certificate program. He has a private practice in spiritual direction and spiritual direction supervision. The author of more than 40 books ranging from science fiction and fantasy to spirituality and spiritual guidance, he is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Apocryphile Press, a small publishing company specializing in “edgy" spirituality. He is currently involved in Inklings studies, focusing on the mysticism of Charles Williams.