Brett Salkeld is a doctoral student in Theology at Regis College, Toronto. He is married with two wonderful children (so far). Outside of theology, his interests include the Toronto Blue Jays, rock’n'roll music and cookware with a lifetime warranty. Brett is the author of two books: How Far Can We Go? A Catholic Guide to Sex and Dating (Novalis, 2009; co-author actually) and Purgatory and the Judgment: A Way Forward for Catholics and Evangelicals (Paulist Press, 2010). The second is just his Master’s thesis. From these titles, the careful observer will discern his interests in sex and ecumenism. The link? Where is the Church’s credibility at stake? Brett is writing his doctoral dissertation on the question of Christ’s Presence in the Eucharist as a topic of ecumenical dialogue.
Gerald L. Campbell was educated at Gonzaga University (Philosophy), St. Louis University (Philosophy), Georgetown University (Philosophy), and the Catholic University of America (International Relations). He was a senior staff member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1976 to 1985, the Director of Policy and Research for the National Security Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1980, the Senior Advisor to the Director of the United States Information Agency from 1985 to 1990, and the Special Assistant to the Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs, at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1992 to 1993. From 1997 to 2001, Campbell was the Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of Health for the State of Texas. Until recently, he was President and a member of the Board of Directors of The Impact Group, Inc., a non-profit education foundation located in Washington, D.C. and Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. In June 1990, he began to inquire into the nature, root cause, and the spiritual dynamics of socially dysfunctional behaviors. He spent nearly five years exploring the streets of Washington, D.C., associating with and befriending the homeless, violent youth, and substance abusers. With camera and tape recorder in hand, he took black and white photographic images — and recorded the personal stories — of many of these individuals. He also recorded the stories of many teenagers who had been incarcerated for capital crimes.
Henry Karlson, born in Augusta Georgia, and raised in Indianapolis, is naturally a Southerner but culturally a Mid-Westerner. Ever confused by this enigma, he has taken a life-long interest in paradoxes, adding more and more of them to his life as he tries to work out his own salvation with much fear and trembling. Raised a Southern Baptist, he converted to the Catholic faith as a Byzantine Catholic on Pascha 1995. As a doctoral student in Systematic Theology working on his dissertation, he finds it difficult to focus on one theme and one theological tradition, explaining why his dissertation is a multi-religious examination on the theme of eternal perdition by putting the thought of Hans Urs Von Balthasar in comparative dialogue with Asanga the Yogacarin. While he has taught undergraduate coursework at both the Catholic University of America and Georgetown, in the fall of 2007, he is taking time off to focus on his dissertation research and writing. He is also a co-founder and contributor of the blog, The Well at the World’s End. He has also started a separate blog, The Road Goes Ever On, to act as a daily journal.
Jonathan Jones is from rural South Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in political science, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in public administration, and is now trying to earn a doctorate in Rhetoric and Public Affairs. Raised a Southern Baptist, he is a convert to the Catholic Church. His favorite book is Romano Guardini’s The Lord.
Kyle R. Cupp was born in California, lived many years in Iowa, attended college at Franciscan University in Ohio, and now lives with his wife and son in North Texas. He has a BA in English and an MA in Philosophy. His philosophical interests include the works of Gabriel Marcel, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida, Russell Kirk, John Caputo, and Brian Treanor. Kyle enjoys bicycling to work, slaying dragons with his son, playing videogames, and diagramming sentences. He also blogs at Journeys in Alterity.
Michael Iafrate is originally from West Virginia and is currently a doctoral student in theology at the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto, Ontario. His master’s degree in applied theology is from Wheeling Jesuit University. His interests include ecclesiology, political and liberation theologies, religion and social movements, theology and (popular) culture, Appalachian studies, and theological method. He also blogs at CatholicAnarchy.org and Rock and Theology. He is also a singer-songwriter and has participated in a number of musical projects, most notably The Minus Tide, M Iafrate & The Priesthood, and COBRA. He and his wife welcomed their first child into the world in October. He enjoys vegetarian food, craft beers, and whiskey.
Natalie is a 20-something orthodox Catholic from Southern California. She works in the publishing/media industry, while discerning about studying theology in an MA program. She is the daughter of Latino immigrants, and perhaps more importantly she is a daughter of the King, yet a sinner all the same. She strives to keep the faith while navigating the secular world.
Nate Wildermuth was born and raised in a military family, and went on to join the Army in February of 2000. Four years later, he was discharged as a conscientious objector, confirmed into the Catholic Church, and started a new life in Washington D.C. He lives there now with his wife Angela, and teaches religion at a local Catholic High School. He runs the online magazine The Catholic Blues.
Radical Catholic Mom is originally from Idaho, but lives in Alaska and loves it. She graduated from the University of Dallas with a degree in English Literature with a Spanish concentration and an emphasis in Theology. Her real learning came during and after college when she volunteered for short term and long term missions throughout the Southern US and Latin America. She is married to a wonderful Catholic man and the proud stay at home momma of three children, one on Earth and two in Heaven. Her passion is pro-life issues and all other Catholic Social Justice issues. She is also a convert to Catholicism from Lutheranism. She blogs at Radical Catholic Mom.
Sam Rocha is Mexican.
