Contributors for Volume Two, Issue Two
Randy Boyagoda
Randy Boyagoda is a postdoctoral fellow with the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame. His writing on religion, literature, politics and culture appears frequently in American and Canadian publications. Randy completed his Ph.D. in English at Boston University in December 2004 with a dissertation on immigration, race, and American identity in the fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner. For the past four years, he has been a Doctoral Research Fellow with the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In addition to academic articles on twentieth century American literature and contemporary literary theory, he has published essays, opinion editorials, book reviews, and short fiction in several public policy, intellectual, and literary journals. His writing predominantly focuses on the interrelations of religion, literature, culture, and politics. He has written for The Walrus, The Claremont Review of Books, The National Review, First Things, Crisis, The American Enterprise, Mississippi Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, Descant, The Human Life Review, Postcolonial Text, The University of Toronto Quarterly, Religion and Literature, South Asian Review, and The World and I. He has recently been elected a postdoctoral fellow at the Erasmus Institute at Notre Dame. (At the time this issue was published, Randy was Books Editor for tNP.)
Kay Darling
Kay Darling has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Greensboro College and a Masters of Theological Studies in Religion and the Arts from Wesley Theological Seminary. She is an underemployed, overeducated housewife living in Richmond, Virginia. This past summer she had an exhibit of paintings at Art Works in Richmond. When she is not painting, she homeschools her two adolescent children.
Eduardo J. Echeverria
Eduardo J. Echeverria is associate professor of philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. He studied philosophy and theology at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has published articles in The Thomist, Logos, Philosophia Reformata, Markets & Morality, Calvin Theological Journal, and Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia. He is working on a book about the philosophy of Jacques Maritain and John Paul II. Professor Echeverria recently contributed a chapter entitled "The Gospel of Redemptive Suffering: Reflections on John Paul II's Salvifici Doloris" to Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil, edited by Peter van Inwagen and published by Eerdmans in 2004.
Mark C. Henrie
Mark C. Henrie is Senior Editor for Journals at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He is the editor of The Intercollegiate Review, senior editor of Modern Age, and executive editor of the Political Science Reviewer. Mark is the author of A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum and editor of Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman. Mark was valedictorian at Dartmouth College and holds graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. He resides in the borough of West Chester, Pennsylvania, with his wife Claudia and their young children, Maxwell, Cordelia, and Raphael. His articles have appeared in publications such as First Things and Commentary.
Gregory Johnson
Greg Johnson is the author of The World According to God: A Biblical View of Culture, Work, Science, Sex & Everything Else (InterVarsity Press, 2002). He is Theologian-in-Residence at the Center for Christian Study (St. Louis). Greg holds degrees from the University of Virginia and Covenant Theological Seminary, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1997, receiving the school's Theology Award that year. He is now a candidate for the PhD in Historical Theology at St. Louis University, with concentrations in Early Church and American Christianity. His blog, Greg's Couch, purports to offer theology and apologetics for normal people.
James Kalb
James Kalb is a lawyer and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and three children. He authors Turnabout: Culture, politics, tradition and Catholicism.
Matthew Kirby
Matthew Kirby's fiction has appeared in 3rd Bed, Diagram, The Brooklyn Rail, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
Jerah Kirby
Jerah Kirby was once a case worker at a homeless shelter for women in Brooklyn. Now she works in an office like everyone else. She's not a huge fan of Christian colleges, possibly because she graduated from one. She also really likes pickles.
Jendi Reiter
Jendi Reiter's first book, A Talent for Sadness, was published in 2003 by Turning Point Books. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Alligator Juniper, Best American Poetry 1990 and many other publications. Awards include two prizes from the Poetry Society of America, the 2004 Olay Total Effects Fine Lines Poetry Prize, and the 2002 Mildred Werba Award from the Baltimore Writers' Alliance. She is the editor of Poetry Contest Insider, an online guide to over 650 poetry contests, published by www.winningwriters.com.
James Rovira
James Rovira is Lecturer in English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and a Ph.D. candidate in English at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, currently working on his dissertation in the field of English Romanticism. He is also a cad.
Eric Scheske
Eric Scheske is a Contributing Editor of Godspy and the former editor of Gilbert Magazine. He also publishes The Daily Eudemon.
Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute , is an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. He is an international lecturer and public speaker who has appeared on CNN's Crossfire, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and Nightline. His writing and opinion columns have appeared in such national and regional news publications as Newsweek, The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, The National Review, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Post, First Things, Forbes, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Detroit News, among many others. Smith has authored and coauthored 10 books, including Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, Power Over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You Need, Forced Exit: the Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, and Consumer's Guide to Brave New World. Smith is currently conducting research for a book on the animal rights movement.
Daniel Sullivan
Daniel Sullivan is a freelance writer living in New Jersey.