CONTRIBUTORS

Michael E. McCullough, Ph.D.
is one of the top researchers on the healing power of forgiveness and gratitude. (You can take the gratitude self-test we helped him develop at SpiritualityHealth.com.) Now a professor in the Departments of Psychology and Religious Studies at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, McCullough directs the Laboratory for Social and Clinical Psychology. His specialty is the psychology and evolution of moral sentiments, and he has recently turned his attention to revenge, a useful instinct woven into our DNA. In his article here, he charts a clear course for a less vengeful, more forgiving world.

Rami Shapiro
is S&H’s resident roadside assistant (see his column here), An itinerant rabbi with a global congregation and an interspiritual message, he’s been called a “holy rascal” by Sister Jose Hobday and a “prophetic voice of the new age” by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. He is an award-winning poet, essayist, and educator whose poems have been anthologized in over a dozen volumes and whose prayers are used in prayer books around the world. Shapiro teaches Religious Studies at Middle Tennessee State University and directs One River (one-river.org), a not-for-profit educational foundation devoted to building community.

Trebbe Johnson
can almost guarantee that you will experience one of life’s great Aha! moments during one of her “Vision Arrow” vision quests that she leads worldwide. A lifelong adventurer in inner and outer worlds, Johnson has camped alone in the Arctic; studied classical Indian dance; worked as a life-drawing model, street sweeper, and award-winning multimedia producer. Johnson lives with her husband in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. Try her simple path to Aha! moments here.

BK Loren
has come to love the odd-shaped tomatoes that arrive in the back of a pickup from her local cooperative farm (read article here). She’s also the recipient of a truckload of writing awards: the Roberts-Rinehart National Literary Fellowship, the D.H. Lawrence Fiction Award, a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship, a Ucross Fellowship, and the Dana Award for the Novel. She has just completed a new novel called Thieves and is sinking her teeth into the delicious job of writing a book about celebrity chef Susan Feniger. She regularly publishes in Orion magazine, as well as in numerous periodicals and anthologies.