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Dr. Allen Dwight Callahan
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Reverend Doctor Allen Dwight Callahan, an ordained Baptist minister is a
native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Professor Callahan received his
B.A. in Religion from Princeton University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
the study of Religion at Harvard University in the area of New Testament
Studies and Early Christian History.Associate
In addition to taught New Testament theaology at Harvard Divinity School
Professor Callahan has taught theology at Boston College and the language
and literature of the New Testament at Holy Cross College, Andover-Newton
Theological School, and Harvard University, where he is a member of the New
Testament Department faculty at the Divinity School.
An extremely powerful and charismatic speaker, Dr. Callahan was most
recently seen on Frontline's four part series which appeared on PBS; From
Jesus to Christ - The First Christians. His most recently published work is
titled Embassy of Onesimus.
Father Richard Rohr
 Father Richard Rohr is a Franciscan of the New Mexico Province. He was the founder of the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After thirteen years as pastor of New Jerusalem and eight years as animator of the Center in Albuquerque, he handed them both over to lay leadership and direction.
Richard now lives in a Franciscan community in New Mexico and divides his public time between local work and preaching and teaching around the world. He considers the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus to be his primary call, and uses many different platforms to communicate that message. Scripture studies, action and contemplation, community building, peace and justice themes, men's spirituality, the enneagram, and eco-spirituality are all themes that he makes use of for the sake of the full Gospel.
Father Rohr is probably best know for his extremely popular audio and video tapes, which are distributed by St. Anthony Messenger Press, Credence Cassettes, and through the Center's newsletter, Radical Grace. Articles by Father Rohr have appeared in numerous publications and much of his writing has been translated into other languages. He considers himself a "pseudo-author", however, because most of his books are edited forms of his tapes. Among these titles are The Great Themes of Scripture, Simplicity, The Wild Man's Journey, Near Occasions of Grace, Jesus Plan for a New World, and Quest for the Grail. He is also a contributing editor for Sojourners magazine.
Richard was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1943. He entered the Franciscan Order in 1961 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He received his Master's degree in Theology from the University of Dayton and did further studies in Scripture at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Sand Francisco.
His latest books are Job and the Mystery of Suffering and Everything Belongs, both put out by Crossroad Publishers. He is now working on a book on male initiation.
Jean Houston, Ph.D.
 Dr. Jean Houston is a scholar and researcher in human capacities, and for over 30 years, has co-directed, with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, the Foundation for Mind Research. Their work has focused on the understanding of latent human abilities.
Her specialty is the development and application of multiple methods of increasing physical and mental skills, learning, and creativity. She has presented the results of her work and studies in some 17 books. Dr. Houston's new book, Jump Time, will be published in the Spring of 2000 by Tarcher/Putnam. She has personally shared her research findings through speeches, conferences, and seminars at educational institutions and business organizations in over 40 countries, and is often invited to work with leaders of such groups, as well as heads of governmental and non-governmental agencies, to assist them in rethinking their goals and agendas.
A past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology (1977), she has taught philosophy, psychology, and religion at Hunter College, the New School for Social Research and Marymount College, as well as summer sessions in human development at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of British Columbia. She was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Oklahoma in that university's Scholar0Leadership Enrichment Program in 1982.
Her work has been the core of a great many teaching-learning communities throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. In 1984, she created a national not-for-profit organization, The Possible Society, to encourage the creation of new ways for people to work together to help solve societal problems.
In 1985, Dr. Houston was awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Association of Teacher Educators. In 1993, she received the Gardner Murphy Humanitarian Award and the INTA Humanitarian of the Year award. In 1994, she received the Lifetime Outstanding Creative Achievement Award from the Creative Education Foundation. In 1996, she was given the Keeper of the Lore award for her studies in myth and culture. In 1997 she was made a Fellow of the World Business Academy.
Among her books are Public Like a Frog, The Hero and The Goddess, The Possible Human, The Search for the Beloved, Godseed, Life Force, Listening to the Body, Manual for the Peacemaker, The Passion of Isis and Osiris. Her autobiography, A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story, was published in 1996 by HarperSanFrancisco.
Her PBS special, A Passion for the Possible, has been widely shown. Her book drawn from that program was published by HarperSanFrancisco in August, 1997.
Dr, Houston's ability to inspire and invigorate people enables her to readily convey her vision-the finest possible achievement of individual potential. That same ability lets her share with her audiences and students throughout the world, the excitement of that possibility.
Sam Keen
 Sam Keen has always dreamed of flying. As he notes in his new book, Learning to Fly:
"Since my earliest awareness, I have felt an unnameable force drawing and pushing me to become airborne, to soar, to escape from rigid habits of mind, to fly free."
So, two months before his sixty-second birthday, he decided to fulfill his dreams and enroll in a flying trapeze class. Five years later, Keen can not only "fly", he can "catch", and. On a trapeze rig built on his farm in northern California, he now teaches others to expand themselves in his "Upward Bound" workshops. He works with inner city school children, abused women, recovering drug addicts, and ordinary men and women who are trying to get over their rears and realize their potential.
Learning to Fly (Broadway Books; May 19, 1999; Hardcover; $23.00) chronicles Keen's mid-life passion for the trapeze. The book examines how trapeze is a unique and an appealing vehicle for exploring human potential. In deeply personal, elegantly written and inspiring narrative, Keen writes of the insight he and others have gained through their experiences on the trapeze and vividly shows the many ways the trapeze functions as a metaphor for the challenges we face in life.
Writing this book, according to Keen, felt like he was writing his first. "Today I am enlivened by a sense of new possibilities. I feel a kind of visceral hope as if some underground spring has come to the surface. There is always something new and refreshing ready to bud in the dark recesses of the self…Thus far, I have been a man of gravity-serious, strong, rigid, taut, heavy, and earthbound. It is time for levity, lightness, litheness, and soaring."
For the past thirty years, Sam Keen has been at the forefront of the effort to define what it means to be spiritual today. The author of twelve previous books, including To Love and Be Loved, Faces of the Enemy, Hymns to an Unknown God, and the New York Times bestseller Fire in the Belly, Keen is a renowned lecturer who is frequently invited to be keynote speaker at universities and spirituality conference centers around the country.
He has also been interviewed by Bill Moyers for PBS. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and with a Ph.D. in the philosophy of religion from Princeton University, Keen served as a consulting editor of Psychology Today for many years. He lives in Sonoma, California, where he practices trapeze daily.
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