Greg Pennoyer was the Director of
Faith in Canada 150, a Cardus program. Greg has a passion for igniting public dialogue on the topic of spirituality and the human condition. As Executive Director of
The Humanitas Group, Greg co-lead the development of an art exhibition that probed the question of what it means to be human. He is cofounder of the
Centre for Cultural Renewal, member of the Board of Directors for
Image Journal, and co-editor with Gregory Wolfe of
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent and Easter.
His passion for civic renewal has lead him everywhere from Parliament, where he served as a Legislative Assistant, to publishing, as a board member of Image Journal, to journeying with others in the spiritual life through board membership on the Henri Nouwen Society and Prison Fellowship International. Greg holds a MA in Public Policy and a BA in Pastoral Theology.
Gregory Wolfe is a writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. In 1989 he founded
Image—one of America’s leading literary journals, which he edited for thirty years. He was also the founding director of the Seattle Pacific University MFA in Creative Writing program, which he led for twelve years. He is currently the Publisher and Editor of
Slant Books. Wolfe’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the
Washington Post,
Wall Street Journal,
First Things,
Commonweal, and
America. In 2005 he was a judge for the National Book Awards. His books include
Beauty Will Save the World,
Intruding Upon the Timeless, and
The Operation of Grace. He is married to the novelist Suzanne M. Wolfe. They are the parents of four grown children and live in Richmond Beach, Washington.
Luci Shaw (1928-2025) was born in London, England, in 1928. A poet and essayist whose writing has appeared in numerous literary and religious journals, in 2013 she received the tenth annual Denise Levertov Award for Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University, and in 2023 she received the Kenneth N. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her lifetime of work in the Christian publishing industry. The author of over thirty-five books of poetry and creative non-fiction, she served as Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver.
Ronald Rolheiser is a specialist in the fields of spirituality and systematic theology. He is president emeritus of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, and a professor of spirituality there. His books, notably
The Restless Heart, The Holy Longing, and
Sacred Fire, are popular throughout the English-speaking world and have now been translated into many languages. His recent books
Domestic Monastery and
Bruised and Wounded are bestsellers, and his weekly column is carried by more than eighty newspapers worldwide.
Librettist, essayist, translator, and author of ten poetry collections,
Scott Cairns is Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Missouri. His poems and essays have appeared in
Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of
Best American Spiritual Writing. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.
